Watched: Cowboy Bebop 8-10: If there had been a second season, that would have been a good low point, but as an ending it’s pretty dark.
Read: Spelunking Through Hell (Seanan McGuire): After seeing the person who has spent fifty years searching the multiverse for her lost husband make cameos in all the other Incryptid books, we finally get her story. It’s pretty grim!
Words: FAIL.
Plenty of work, especially in the morning. Blugh.
Watched: Cowboy Bebop 7: Faye’s con mom!
Read: Escape From Yokai Land (Charles Stross): Novella about “Bob Howard”‘s visit to Japan briefly mentioned in the beginning of The Delirium Brief. A mere brain-eating demon seems quaint compared to everything that happens after it in the series.
Read: The Delirium Brief (Charles Stross): The one where the UK gets completely boned. No, not the interdimensional invasion, that was nothing compared to this.
Words: FAIL, but I gave out the URL for the kitten words to the writing channel on the slack. Also an actual book published by a slack frond came out today!
We made it to Friday! Wait, it’s Friday already?! Both of these can be valid here in our timeless dystopia.
Eaten: Herbalicious chicken bites and garlicky green beans.
Watched: Cowboy Bebop 6: I remember the tower of TVs, but not the other bits. And not the Faye bits for sure!
Words: 412 kitten words.
Back to getting up early, this time for cleaners. At least I don’t have to get up early tomorrow? Actually, I don’t have to get up at all this weekend, since Monkeycat Towers is a house of plague, which cancels all my weekend plans.
Read: Kiki Kallira Breaks A Kingdom (Sangu Mandanna): The main character doesn’t get the magic power to bring her drawings to life, exactly, but nevertheless they blame her for their interesting lives, which pairs well with the anxiety disorder that she arts to escape.
Read: Just Jaime (Terri Libenson): This time, two of the vaguely adversarial girls from the previous books, with Friendship Drama, and no twist ending. It certainly is difficult when friends mature at different rates and have different standards for maturity.
Read: The Savior’s Book Café Story in Another World vol 1 (Kyouka Izumi, Oumiya, Reiko Sakurada): A higher power drafts random Japanese people to be saviors for another world, but one of them is a grownup and instead of asking for combat powers to have adventures, asks for what she needs to set up a nice book café in the quietest kingdom and uses her vast magic powers to run it. She’s probably going to have deal with the other saviors, though.
Watched: Cowboy Bebop 4-5. Manne, Faye and Spike are really bad at this. Jet is more serious, with his special detecting hat, but maybe still not that great either. They need to get Ein out there tracking down bounties.
Words: 575.
Finally Jus and Ayse and I made it to the kitten café, and kittens are wonderful! Sadly most of the kittens that came over to say hi (because we are the right sort of people who sit in the cafe) are already spoken for, but Rotini lovingly savaged my arm, and Bullet climbed all over me and snorfled my ear extensively. I wanted to get to know Katya, who is orange and not stripy and quite chill, but our time was up and we had to let other people adore the kittens. Perhaps we will go again next week.
Kittens give life, so I was energetic enough to walk a few kilometers to Trader Joe’s, which was only out of one thing I wanted (not counting the things that are never in stock because 2021)
Watched: Cowboy Bebop 3: Spike is composed of 117% self-destructive decisions by weight, but Jet is not a whole lot better.
Words: 320.
Yay, we made it to Friday. Somehow, despite the cleaners having to reschedule so I was up two hours early this morning. I didn’t need that brain anyway.
Watched: Cowboy Bebop ep 1. It’s grimy and pretty much everybody dies, so they got the aesthetic perfectly. Casting is also good, at least for the main trio.
Read: Ascension (Minister Faust): Random school teacher from Edmonton gets swept up into the doings of aliens from counter-Earth, complete with unspeakably hot alien princess, urchin in need of rescue, and super-powered warrior monks with glowing weapons. First of a trilogy.
Read: Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Judy Blume): Probably revolutionary back when puberty was a mystery never to be spoken of. Both the writing style and the protagonist’s thinking seem young compared to more recent books about characters of a similar age, but maybe that’s because she’s not being dragged to a magical realm in need of saving.
Read: Hover Girls (GDBee): Enthusiastic magical girl plus reluctant magical girl vs flying fish monsters! Complete.
Words: 618 words of actual writing! I have established a reason for my MC to hate the person she went to for help, so her problem doesn’t have to be addressed completely and sensibly. Writing in first person again after writing intensively in close third for a month is weird.