like a bonsai'd skellytum

[lotesse]

Here I am, in a new apartment close to Montrose Harbor, in Chicago. Think I'm feeling ... happy? My wireless network is named "honeysuckle," which is used in witch-work to end unproductive nostalgia. Politics is going to all hell, and I think I'm very tired somewhere, but I'm busy and I'm still looking forward. Following my feet. I can walk to Lake Michigan, and that gives me peace. I've got enough work from home, but I'm also trying to psyche myself up to find decent work somewhere else. I don't think service work, tho I'm sort of tempted to go work as a cocktail waitress in Uptown ... I think I should probably make contact with some office at Harry Truman, and see if I can make myself useful there at all. I hear there's also a good feminist bookstore in my neighborhood.

I am trying to workshop some poems and maybe read them somewhere. If u wanna help with that, super let me know -- I'd love some second readers there. Not doing yuletide this year. Still trying to finish the finishable fanwork on my hard drive, but I'll admit I haven't been writing much. I want to be. Maybe I will be soon. Also having weird desires to try origfic.

Have any of you read the new Vorkosigan novella? I think I should maybe buy it for myself.

Comments

[rmc28]

Do you mean /The Flowers of Vashnoi/? I've read it and enjoyed it. It is focused on Ekaterin, who I'm always happy to read more of.

[lotesse]

Yes! I'm very focused on Ekaterin myself, maybe enough that I'm slightly nervous to get new content ... I'm going to care a whole bunch, either way!

[highlyeccentric]

Glad to hear you're doing better :)

[lotesse]

XD

[oracne]

I enjoyed The Flowers of Vashnoi quite a bit. Congrats on your new apaprtment! It sounds lovely to be able to walk down to the water.

[lotesse]

There's a fantastic migratory bird sanctuary down there at the shore in a decommissioned military base ... wonderful trees and nature sounds, lots of dune grass. Even a few funny tiny dunes!

[princessofgeeks]

So great to hear from you. Glad you have landed in a good spot and have work.

[lotesse]

<3 <3

[havocthecat]

I. Wait. How did I miss that you live in Chicago? Did you just move there? I used to live across the street from that feminist bookstore! Many years ago. Great neighborhood, really terrible heating and bug problems in that apartment. I've never had worm-infested flour before or since.

[lotesse]

Yeah, it's a new thing -- tho I've orbited this city for a long time, I was born in Pilsen, my cousins grew up in Andersonville and my sib's been in Logan Square for four years now. A good blend of new and not-too-new.

Are you still in Chicago? Is there anything else in this neck of the woods you think I shouldn't miss out on?

[havocthecat]

I live in the suburbs right now, so I'm a little out of the city life (alas, though we do visit the city every now and again), but if you have a way to get to the suburbs, there's a fan-run con in Lombard this weekend called Windycon: http://www.windycon.org/