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And now I'm caught up on Civil War/Reconstruction, mostly current on Western Civ although I missed a bunch of quizzes and need to finish up the Cerego exercises, and now it's just American Government, Terrorism/CounterTerrorism, and Justice. That's going to be interesting. Fortunately I have a lot of knitting to do while I watch things. Unfortunately I haven't yet entered everything into the Habitica to-do lists so I have no idea how much is much, proportionally, until I go through and start organizing that. Maybe I'll do that tonight.

I've also been only semi-explicably binging on Lost Girl for a while. It's decent enough background noise while I do twenty other things, everyone is very pretty and appropriately snarky, and the music's good. That's about all I can say for it, I don't find it stellar must-see TV or anything, I don't find it horribly awful? I enjoy it for how I enjoy it. And then there's other reading and video watching I'm doing, there may be a lot more of that for the moment now that I've hit a season break and am needing to catch up on all my online classes.

(For the five of you who still remember and will be amused, Samael just essentially showed up in Lost Girl, or their version of his type anyway. There may have been shrieking.)

The knitting continues! I did get my yarn for the sweater, so I cast that on last night and promptly discovered wrote the pattern as though every word had to be accounted for, so there is no real feasible way to knit a couple rows, double check the pattern to make sure I'm in the right spot, knit some more. Put it down, pick it up double checking whether I'm in the right spot, etc. Do other people knit like this? Or do people prefer patterns where everything is as concise as possible? Because right now I want to gently shake her and go no, give me the stitch increases on every row where there are stitch increases goddammit, so I know how many stitches I have. Or at LEAST do more than just the first two and a half right-side rows. Argh. At this point I'm just going to write out the pattern in a form that's easier for me to work with and maybe send that to her. I'm also double checking with the knitting aunts at work, though. Just to make sure I'm not a crazy or stupid person.

Other than that the knitting's great! I put the My God It's Full Of Stars shawl on hold while I do the sweater, I'm still doing pairs of baby mitts off and on. Probably switch that out with the sweater. And I've managed not to lose any stitch markers in the couch the first day. I swear to god. In the damn couch. So many of them. I should pull up the cushions at some point and vacuum up breadcrumbs and see how many are in there. The Heartskull hat is probably going to have to wait at least until after the sweater, alas. On the other hand, that means I can remind myself of that whenever I get tempted to go buy yarn for it.

But at least things are back to proceeding more or less smoothly and like normal despite a couple days of ick. Writing and editing are back to relative normal, I'm knitting and catching up on things, and I'm much more relaxed than when ... well, than a lot of times before and around and after DragonCon. I guess because I'm not rushing to catch up on things or pushing to meet a deadline. Thank god. Can we try not to do that anymore, self? I knew we could.

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I may have committed an evil when I mentioned that there was yarn to be had on the seconds list. More colors of inexpensive Brown Sheep Lanaloft for basically 30% of usual retail cost. Om nom nom. So, yeah, eventually I will have All Of The Yarn coming, some of it to go up north for a late birthday present and some of it to stay with me and keep me warm all winter. Because why not.

I haven't done a Wednesday Reads post in a while, so let's go with that. I don't think I'm going to make my goal of 100 books in a year, but I've definitely topped 50 and I should be able to add some onto that over the next month and a half.

Mad Madame LaLaurie by Victoria Cosner Love and Lorelei Shannon is a very account-based story of Madame LaLaurie of New Orleans infamy, thus it's also a lot dryer than most lurid true crime books. I enjoyed it, though. It cited a lot of source material that might still be available for looking up and researching today, if one were so inclined, and it also referenced a number of legends and traced back possible paths to the source of those legends. So that was fun.

Still working on Women of the Golden Dawn and at the moment I've switched to Return of the Black Death by Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan, because of source material for my Nanonovel. And my Kindle tells me I have three or four other books that I've almost finished, so I can knock those two off my list. At least one of them was a Phryne, not sure why I never finished that. Maybe I got distracted? And a Wild Cards, and I remember not finishing THAT because I was traveling from DragonCon and fell asleep. So. But I think for the next while I'm going to be gnawing through my collection of non-fiction, unless there's some YA/shorter fiction to read.

And knitting. Endless, endless knitting.