Belated happy Father's Day to all y'all fathers! I hope you had a splendid day.<\/p>\n
My day was okay. Slow start (after staying up way too late last night doing magazine stuff), breakfast at noonish, finally sat down to do magazine stuff maybe 1:30ish, nap midafternoon (I haven't been getting enough sleep lately, but have had a couple of midafternoon naps, which help), more magazine stuff later. Read a fair number of stories, but I have a lot left--the last two weeks have been the 7th- and 8th-highest submission-volume weeks ever. Also sent 47 rejections tonight, and did some administrative stuff (though I've still got plenty of that left to do as well).<\/p>\n
Also went outside to practice poi a little a couple of times during the day. I think I'm figuring out how to do the underhand weave, which I'm finding a lot trickier than the overhand weave.<\/p>\n
Also took a couple of breaks to do various photo-related things; among other things, there are now nearly 40 photos in my public WisCon 2006 photo album<\/a>, with that many again still to be added if\/when I get permission from the relevant people. (Unrelatedly, I also posted some photos of fire trucks<\/a>, in case any of you are into that sort of thing. But those may go away at some point; I mostly thought a few kids of my acquaintance would enjoy seeing them.)<\/p>\n Also did some laundry this evening.<\/p>\n Mostly didn't spend time thinking about Peter today, though there was a fair bit of that yesterday as I poked around in Dobe's blog, which I hadn't known about before, and looked at those photos.<\/p>\n Also today, read bits of Alison Bechdel's new autobiographical comic book (though it feels weird to call it that--but in this case \"graphic novel\" is decidedly inaccurate as well, and \"graphic autobiography\" gives the wrong idea) Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic<\/cite>, which I bought at her reading this past week. Good stuff, and relevant to the day because it's focused heavily on her father (who ran a funeral home, and who died when A.B. was in college) and on her difficult relationship with him.<\/p>\n (I've been intending for many months to mention the line I came up with in a conversation about parents a while back: \"The reason our parents are so good at pushing our buttons is that they were the ones who installed our buttons.\")<\/p>\n Today was also an auspicious day for other reasons than Father's Day: specifically, it was the birthday of Emma (who's now 12!) (and whose birthday party I missed yesterday, alas), Twig, and my former colleague Charles N. And it was Debby and John's anniversary, so double happy day to John! (Debby: I tried several times to reach you by email the other week, but it kept bouncing. Is your mail working?)<\/p>\n Anyway. Time to go read a couple more stories, then sleep. G'night!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Belated happy Father’s Day to all y’all fathers! I hope you had a splendid day. My day was okay. Slow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,80,36,29,41,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-comics","category-editing","category-life-updates","category-object-manipulation","category-parents-children"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}