{"id":3596,"date":"2006-06-26T00:48:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T07:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/06\/26\/3596.html"},"modified":"2006-06-26T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T07:48:20","slug":"weekend-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/06\/26\/weekend-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some things I did this weekend, including several that I had not planned to do, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spent the whole weekend at home, avoiding social opportunities as much as possible.  Was really desperately in need of some uninterrupted alone-time.  In fact, turned off my phone for most of the weekend to better manage interruptions, though wasn't very successful in that regard.<\/li>\n<li>Read nearly 40 submissions; am now all caught up on submission-reading for the first time in ages.<\/li>\n<li>Sent three story acceptance letters.<\/li>\n<li>Did a couple loads of laundry.<\/li>\n<li>Put some books back on bookcases.  Still have many more to go.  (This is from taking them down to move bookcases around weeks ago.)<\/li>\n<li>Finished reading Alison Bechdel's \"graphic memoir\" <cite>Fun Home<\/cite>.  Quite good, very much worth reading.  And a fast read.<\/li>\n<li>Re-read \"Time Considered as a Helix of Semiprecious Stones\" (more on that later).<\/li>\n<li>Upgraded <cite>SH<\/cite> forum software (actually did this Thursday night, but that took up a fair bit of my planned submission-reading time that night, which is part of why I had so many stories to read over the weekend--the other part being, of course, that I was already way behind).  (The forum is not quite ready to reopen to the public yet, but I'm hoping it will be in the next couple days.)<\/li>\n<li>Improved part of the <cite>SH<\/cite> fiction-sub database interface, learning some useful JavaScript in the process.<\/li>\n<li>Spent a couple of hours dealing with an unexpected emergency email outage at <cite>SH<\/cite> this evening due to Pair shutting down our mail-processing system.  (If anyone tried to send any mail to <cite>SH<\/cite> this afternoon, you should check on whether your mail arrived safely.  This includes submitting stories via the RTF submission form; we only received 3 stories on Sunday, so I'm guessing between 4 and 10 stories bounced, without any notification to the submitter, while our system was down.)<\/li>\n<li>Read more of Dorothy Allison's book of essays, <cite>Skin<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li>Continued reading bits and pieces of <cite>Learning Perl Objects, References &amp; Modules<\/cite> in spare moments.<\/li>\n<li>Had to reboot after Cyberduck (SFTP application) hung\/crashed while quitting (leaving things in a state where I could move my mouse pointer but couldn't do anything at all, including force quit), which lost me several open\/unrecorded Safari windows.  (Probably a fluke rather than Cyberduck's fault, but still annoying.)<\/li>\n<li>Read various interesting online discussions and kerfuffles from a couple weeks ago, that I missed at the time.<\/li>\n<li>Took a couple of much-needed but too-brief naps.<\/li>\n<li>Bought advance tickets to the July 4 show of <cite>Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind<\/cite> in Chicago. (Did I mention I'm going to Chicago next weekend?)<\/li>\n<li>Noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalscape.com\/Lola\/2006-06-24-16:57\">Lola has arrived safely in France<\/a> and Mary Anne has arrived safely home.<\/li>\n<li>Practiced poi now and then in the interstices between other things.  Hit myself with them a lot.  Was glad not to be using fire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some things I didn't do this weekend that I'd hoped to do, or at least considered doing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Editing.  Still way behind on that.<\/li>\n<li>General fiction-department administrative stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Dishes.<\/li>\n<li>Taking out the trash.<\/li>\n<li>Mowing the lawn.<\/li>\n<li>Lunch with Naomi.<\/li>\n<li>Going to any Pride-related events in SF at all.<\/li>\n<li>Reading and replying to many many important backlogged emails.<\/li>\n<li>Reading works-in-progress from two people who've asked me to look at things.<\/li>\n<li>Getting a hotel room for next Saturday night.<\/li>\n<li>Writing any of a dozen in-progress journal entries.<\/li>\n<li>Watching various Netflix items.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things I did this weekend, including several that I had not planned to do, in no particular order: Spent&#8230;<\/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":[80,36,29,68,26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-editing","category-life-updates","category-programming","category-strange-horizons","category-web-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","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=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}