Weekly Round-up, September 7, 2024

[ The weekly harvest from our garden. Zucchini, string beans, a few varieties of tomato, and a hot pepper. ]

Well, this was another busy week. My partner had a food booth at the Eastown Street Fair on Saturday so I spent a good amount of time assisting her with preparation, setup, selling, and the tear down. All this in addition to working a 45-hour week. So not a lot happened otherwise.

Reading

I finished Fleur Jaeggy’s short story collection I Am the Brother of XX, which upon review of my LibraryThing account I saw that I had read before, but as I do not remember a single thing about this book I am going to say that I have not, in fact, read it before, and that the rating in LibraryThing was a mistake.

Writing

Per usual, my writing was confined to this blog post and a few pages in my journal. I did put in an appearance at the River City Writer’s Group, where I presented a poem along with the first draft version, and general consensus was that the first draft was the superior draft, so back to the drawing board, I guess.

Weekly Writing Prompt

Subject: Dragons, Colonization
Setting: Border Town
Genre: Horror

Listening

Laura Branigan, “Self Control“. Boy oh boy, did I have a crush on Laura Branigan when this video appeared on MTV.

Interesting Links

• “Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era” (Roland Allen, The Walrus) – Excerpt from Allen’s book The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper