between the rock and the cold, cold sea

Read

For Tor.com:

THE WARRIOR WITHIN, McIntyre, Angus
DAUGHTERS OF THE STORM, Wilkins, Kim
STONE MAD, Bear, Elizabeth
TORN, Miller, Rowenna

For Locus:

LATCHKEY, Nicole Kornher-Stace
GUNPOWDER MOON, David Pedreira
EMBERS OF WAR, Gareth L. Powell


For Sleeps With Monsters:

THE RELUCTANT QUEEN, Sarah Beth Durst
THE QUEEN OF BLOOD, Sarah Beth Durst
THE QUEEN OF SORROWS, Sarah Beth Durst
WITCH CREEK, Laura Bickle
NINE OF STARS, Laura Bickle - abandoned the Bickles as tedious and Wrong For Me
THAT INEVITABLE VICTORIAN THING, E.K. Johnston
THE TRUE QUEEN, Sarah Fine


Review:

For Locus, 3000 words:

A STUDY IN HONOR, Claire O'Dell
THE WONDER ENGINE, T. Kingfisher
GUNPOWDER MOON, David Pedreira
THE EMPRESS OF TIMBRA, Karen Healey and Robyn Fleming. 3000 words


For Tor.com:

THE WARRIOR WITHIN, McIntyre, Angus -650 words
DAUGHTERS OF THE STORM, Wilkins, Kim
STONE MAD, Bear, Elizabeth - 680 words
TORN, Miller, Rowenna - 880 words

Sleeps With Monsters:
- topic a - Empress of Timbra, Sparks Fly, 800 words
- topic b - the women of BLACK PANTHER, 800 words
- topic c - THE WONDER ENGINE, 650 words
- topic d - Star Trek Discovery, 680 words
- topic e - Hugo award noms, 780 words


Patreon - Machiavelli and Kloos, 530 words


Miscellaneous

- agenda
- minutes

Reviews

1. For Locus, to read:

Walter Jon Williams, QUILLIFER
EJ Swift, PARIS ADRIFT


2. For Locus, to review:

Jim Hines, TERMINAL ALLIANCE
Liz Ziemska, MANDELBROT THE MAGNIFICENT
Walter Jon Williams, QUILLIFER
EJ Swift, PARIS ADRIFT


3. For Patreon, to read:

F/F romances
Helen Wright, A MATTER OF OATHS


4. For Patreon, to review:

Steven Brust, VALLISTA
F/F romances
Helen S. Wright, A MATTER OF OATHS


5. For Tor.com, to read:

Ada Palmer, THE WILL TO BATTLE
Spencer Ellsworth, SHADOW SUN SEVEN


6. For Tor.com, to review:
Ada Palmer, THE WILL TO BATTLE
Spencer Ellsworth, SHADOW SUN SEVEN


Other:


7. Social outings:
- meet gf Tuesday lunch
- meet C. Tuesday @1700
- meet gf Wednesday lunch


8. Exercise
- gym Tuesday if not sick
- gym Wednesday if not sick


9. Emails
- email CT
- email JB, FN, KS

1. Events outside the house:

a) gym, Wednesday

b) gym, Thursday - skipped because blood

c) holiday mandatory social events, Sunday

d) meet JC, Friday.


2. Review work with deadlines:

a) TREMONTAINE S1. for Locus (January 20)

b) apologise to Tor.com for THE MOUNTAIN OF KEPT MEMORY

c) WINTER TIDE for Locus (January 20)

d) SEVEN SURRENDERS for Tor.com (February)

e) column for Tor.com (January 2) - 650 words

f) Write and pitch piece on GIRL MANS UP to Autostraddle (asap) - pitched pitch not full submission.

g) Check list of titles expected to review.


3. Politics:

a) investigate powers of county council - CoCo Meetings; CoCo Data; CoCo Councillors; CoCo Committees.

b) get date when Dáil returns 1400 Tuesday January 17 2017.

c) write TDs about moral imperative to support refugees

d) write TDs about green energy vs. carbon bubble

e) figure out how to join the Irish Council for Civil Liberties

f) figure out which TDs hold constituency clinics and where. Lab TD does. FG TD does. Would have to write and inquire of the others. (Note: January task.)


4. Emails:

a) Contact JB.

b) FW

c) FM re: thing


5. Internet business:

a) update booklog if applicable

b) write blog post (politics)

c) sort out Patreon - for now

d) research consulting editor/proofreading rates - details in word file


6. Miscellaneous/household:

a) finish giftmas gifts - wrap

b) laundry

c) bed linen!

d) foodstuffs

e) ROGUE ONE again with AOR

f) laundry again if applicable - NA


7. Personal academic renaissance

a) paper abstract for Byzantine SF conference

b) book proposal maybe

c) Latin for personal satisfaction

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List of things to review

For Locus:

March 20:
Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys

January 20:
Tremontaine S1
Bookburners S1

For Tor.com
January 10:
Dennard, Susan, Windwitch
Gilman, Laura Anne, The Cold Eye
McGuire, Seanan, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

January 17:
Vaughn, Carrie, Martians Abroad

January 24:
Daniels, April, Dreadnought

February 1:
Palmer, Ada, Seven Surrenders

February 14:
Carey, Jacqueline, Miranda and Caliban

February 28:
Lewis, Erika, Game of Shadows

March 14:
Murad & Shurin, eds, The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories

Things to do, Mon 28 Nov - Sun 4 Dec:

1. Email CT.
2. Email JB.
3. Email FN and KCS. Also email COH, JC, KK.
4. Contact doctor re: thing (Tuesday).
5. Log books.
6. Update catalogue.
7. Write column.
8. Read late book for review.
9. Read GATHER HER ROUND.
10. Review GATHER HER ROUND for Locus.
11. Pitch review of TREMONTAINE to Locus.
12. Go to gym (Wed?).
13. Email CK.
14. Go to Latin (Wednesday).
15. Go to gym again (Fri?).
16. Write abstract for AM conference.
17. Email Locus about hating book for review when it came out in the UK.
18. Have coffee with CK Fri 1500.

While Christmas is a culturally-mandated celebration, it is not one I actually enjoy. I enjoy giving gifts. I just wish mutual gift-giving could be divorced from the religious mummery, lip-service to which appears to be required. Because the religious stuff feels oppressive and makes my insides hurt.

Anyway.

To-do list:

1. Write 2000 words of thesis chapter at least. 3600 would be better, but seems unlikely.

2. Write column for January

3. Review Touch.

4a. Read The Almost Girl.
4b. Review The Almost Girl.

5. Contact Ideo about spring reviews.

6a. Cardio session in gym.
6b. Mixed session in gym.

7. Write up last lot of this year's books read.

Is now here, and complete, at 13 entries and something on the order of 10,000 words.

I may talk about my half-day holiday in Liverpool on Tuesday soon. I have Opinions on museums who bombard people with audiovis.

But not right now.

To-do list for this week:

THESIS THESIS THESIS
Turn up funding claim for my one-sixth of expenses.
Read two books.
Review said books.
Write up books read to date this year.
Attempt to write SH column on conference.

Thesis:
- finish third chapter by month end
- figure out WTF I'm doing?

Reviews:
- Sharps for Vector
- one more for Ideomancer
- giving up on the review copy for Tor.com arriving, but that too, if it ever comes.
- pitch more?

Column:
- finish up brief space-opera focus, 2-3 more posts
- remember to interview author in November
- plan some more?

Paperwork:
- apply for January travel funding by month end.
- run errand for fellow PG by Thursday afternoon
- inquire of paperwork responsibilities re: funding with supervisor

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Also, I would like my strength back already now. So's I can do all these things, and others, including meeting people for doing stuff.

Fucking sicknesses. Next time, I will drink lemon and honey and whiskey instead of guafenisin in treacle. Maybe that will help more faster.

What do I have to do before Monday?

1. Translate 40 lines of Greek.
2. Advance conference paper to first draft completion stage. (2K words from now approx.)
3. Make some inquiries about reviews.
4. Exercise.

Remind myself that I will not have enough time to read any of the library books I requested this week (the two by Ian McDonald, the one by Catherine Bush that leahbobet was talking about) and so shouldn't fret myself about going to the library: the books can go back to stacks, and all will be well.

Things I am not going to do:

1. Worry about how I will survive from August 2012 if the funding doesn't happen.

Γυνὴ Β

φέρε τὸν στέφανον: ἐγὼ γὰρ αὖ λέξω πάλιν.
οἶμαι γὰρ ἤδη μεμελετηκέναι καλῶς.
ἐμοὶ γὰρ ὦ γυναῖκες αἱ καθήμεναι— [165]

Πραξάγορα

γυναῖκας αὖ δύστηνε τοὺς ἄνδρας λέγεις;

Γυνὴ Β

δι᾽ Ἐπίγονόν γ᾽ ἐκεῖνον: ἐπιβλέψασα γὰρ
ἐκεῖσε πρὸς γυναῖκας ᾠόμην λέγειν.


Second Woman:
Give back the crown: I'll speak again.
For I think I've taken good thought.
With/for me, O women who have been seated in assembly -

Praxagora:
Women again, wretched one? Aren't you speaking to men?

Second Woman:
Because of that Epigonos! For observing him,
I thought I spoke to women.


Πραξάγορα

ἄπερρε καὶ σὺ καὶ κάθησ᾽ ἐντευθενί:
αὐτὴ γὰρ ὑμῶν γ᾽ ἕνεκά μοι λέξειν δοκῶ [170]
τονδὶ λαβοῦσα. τοῖς θεοῖς μὲν εὔχομαι
τυχεῖν κατορθώσασα τὰ βεβουλευμένα.
ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἴσον μὲν τῆσδε τῆς χώρας μέτα
ὅσονπερ ὑμῖν: ἄχθομαι δὲ καὶ φέρω
τὰ τῆς πόλεως ἅπαντα βαρέως πράγματα. [175]
ὁρῶ γὰρ αὐτὴν προστάταισι χρωμένην
ἀεὶ πονηροῖς: κἄν τις ἡμέραν μίαν
χρηστὸς γένηται, δέκα πονηρὸς γίγνεται.
ἐπέτρεψας ἑτέρῳ: πλείον᾽ ἔτι δράσει κακά.
χαλεπὸν μὲν οὖν ἄνδρας δυσαρέστους νουθετεῖν, [180]
οἳ τοὺς φιλεῖν μὲν βουλομένους δεδοίκατε,
τοὺς δ᾽ οὐκ ἐθέλοντας ἀντιβολεῖθ᾽ ἑκάστοτε.
ἐκκλησίαισιν ἦν ὅτ᾽ οὐκ ἐχρώμεθα
οὐδὲν τὸ παράπαν: ἀλλὰ τόν γ᾽ Ἀγύρριον
πονηρὸν ἡγούμεσθα: νῦν δὲ χρωμένων [185]
ὁ μὲν λαβὼν ἀργύριον ὑπερεπῄνεσεν,
ὁ δ᾽ οὐ λαβὼν εἶναι θανάτου φήσ᾽ ἀξίους
τοὺς μισθοφορεῖν ζητοῦντας ἐν τἠκκλησίᾳ.

Praxagora:
You, go away, and henceforth sit in assembly:
taking this [crown], on your account I myself will speak.
I pray to the gods, standing upright,
to hit the mark with the things which have been resolved upon. [which I resolved on]
To me equally as great [the things] of this land among you
[This land is just as greatly valued by me as it is by you]
I'm grieved and I bear heavily
all the matters of the city.
For I see that she's subject herself to worthless front-rank men
always: and if someone one day
were to be born good, ten would be born evil.
You rely upon another: he'll accomplish worse evils yet.
So it's hard to advise men who're hard to appease:
you've feared those who want to love [you],
while those who don't want to love you, you supplicate every time.
There was a time when we didn't hold assemblies,
not one at all: but we believed
Agurrios evil: now with them using [since they're furnished up? established?]
the one who takes silver praises [himself?] above measure,
while the one who doesn't, he says worthy of death are
those who seek to receive wages in the assembly.


Γυνὴ Α

νὴ τὴν Ἀφροδίτην εὖ γε ταυταγὶ λέγεις.

Πραξάγορα

τάλαιν᾽ Ἀφροδίτην ὤμοσας; χαρίεντά γ᾽ ἂν [190]
ἔδρασας, εἰ τοῦτ᾽ εἶπας ἐν τἠκκλησίᾳ.

Γυνὴ Α

ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἂν εἶπον.

Πραξάγορα
μηδ᾽ ἐθίζου νῦν λέγειν.
τὸ συμμαχικὸν αὖ τοῦθ᾽, ὅτ᾽ ἐσκοπούμεθα,
εἰ μὴ γένοιτ᾽, ἀπολεῖν ἔφασκον τὴν πόλιν:
ὅτε δὴ δ᾽ ἐγένετ᾽, ἤχθοντο, τῶν δὲ ῥητόρων [195]
ὁ τοῦτ᾽ ἀναπείσας εὐθὺς ἀποδρὰς ᾤχετο.
ναῦς δεῖ καθέλκειν: τῷ πένητι μὲν δοκεῖ,
τοῖς πλουσίοις δὲ καὶ γεωργοῖς οὐ δοκεῖ.
Κορινθίοις ἄχθεσθε, κἀκεῖνοί γέ σοι:


First Woman:
Yes by Aphrodite, you say this well indeed.

Praxagora:
Wretched woman, you swore by Aphrodite? Clever if
you did that, if you said that in the assembly!

First Woman:
But I wouldn't say it!

Praxagora:
Don't be accustomed to saying it.
This alliance afresh, when we considered it,
they said if it didn't happen, it'd ruin the city:
and then when it did, they were hated, and the orator
who persuaded us about it straightaway fled.
It's necessary to launch a ship? for the labourer it seems good,
for the rich man and the farmers it doesn't seem good.
You were vexed with Corinth, and they indeed with you:
now they're useful, and now you've become a friend.

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This evening's climbing encompassed four lead climbs and four top-ropes, pushing myself hard. I still feel as though I'm not pushing myself hard enough when it comes to exercise-related things, especially since there was no jujutsu yesterday.

Things to do before Monday:
- Finish funding app stuff
- email supervisor about getting some feedback
- modern Greek homework (composition) (oral comprehension)
- climbing Friday
- karate Saturday
- progress on second paper for presentation

"...Now, come on, let's drag a black ship into the heavenly sea,
and let's gather together oarsmen for the purpose, and a hekatomb
let's put aboard, and Chryses' fine-cheeked girl herself
we'll make go: and let a counselling man be chief aboard,
either Aias or Idomeneus or godlike Odysseus,
or you, son of Peleus, most fearsome of men,
in order that for us you may appease the Farworker by performing sacrifices."

With a grim look replied fleet-footed Achilleus:
"O shamelessnesss sent against me! O greed-for-gain!
How could any of the Achaeans be persuaded by your words
to go on a voyage or to battle men with might?
For I didn't come on account of Trojan warriors
in order to fight them here, since they're not blameworthy to me.
Never did they drive away my cattle, nor my horses,
nor ever in Phthia, fertile nurse of heroes,
did they spoil my harvest, since very many things are between us,
shady hills and the resounding sea.
But you, O great shameless one, we followed, so that you would be glad,
reaping honour for Menelaus and for you, Dog-eyes,
from Troy. Not one of these things do you show regard for, or trouble yourself about.
And you yourself threaten to take away my honour-prize,
for which I strove greatly, and which they gave me, the sons of the Achaeans...."

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