Solstice approaches and the daylight wanes almost to nothing.\u00a0 Here in Kansas City we\u2019ve just had our first snow and our first night below 0F.\u00a0 The semester is over, with only one final exam left between me and (hopefully) sounder sleep.\u00a0 It seems as good a time as any to reacquaint myself with the world.<\/p>\n
At 14,000 words my NaNoWriMo novel is neither a failure nor a success: in fewer than 20 days I doubled my fiction word count for the school year.\u00a0 I\u2019ve written one major and one minor paper in the last two weeks, the first of which I may share here.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
I\u2019m working on my recipe for my Yule mead.\u00a0 While searching for inspiration, I found a fantastic beginner\u2019s recipe: http:\/\/www.moremead.com\/mead_logs\/Ancient_OCC.html<\/a><\/p>\n And while I\u2019m sharing links, I found this while catching up on Chas Clifton\u2019s blog: http:\/\/mysterytheater.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/free-classic-weird-fiction.html<\/a><\/p>\n Happy day, all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Solstice approaches and the daylight wanes almost to nothing.\u00a0 Here in Kansas City we\u2019ve just had our first snow and our first night below 0F.\u00a0 The semester is over, with only one final exam left between me and (hopefully) sounder sleep.\u00a0 It seems as good a time as any to reacquaint myself with the world. … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,237,292,303],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-goals","tag-school","tag-weblinks","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-2j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}