The Year in Review
Dec. 31st, 2013 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjBeing a compilation of the first sentences posted in each calendar month of 2013, unless the first sentence or first post of the month is utterly boring, in which case I will exercise discretion.
January: Since my survey of the past year suggested that my writing projects are my most common LJ topic, I might as well capitulate and try to renew my commitment to regular posting with more writing topics. [Note: I have 12 postings in 2013 with the tag “writing” so I guess I followed through somewhat.]
February: After breakfast and the obligatory writing session at the coffee shop, I swung by Home Depot to acquire my very own electric pole chainsaw and then accomplished the following: [Technically, the bullet-pointed list that followed is part of the first sentence, but I’ll omit it.]
March: [Um ... March was busy. Very busy. Yeah, that’s it. I didn’t post anything in March. I was a bad girl.]
April: As part of reading the source materials for the recent Perfectly Period Feast, I was perusing the various menus cited in Messisbugo (mid-16th c. Italian cookery manual). [And I really do need to get back to my series of thoroughly geeky posts analyzing the structure of a typical Messisbugo menu.]
May: It's time once again for the Kalamazoo Sessions Live-Blog!
June: [Book blog entry -- I’ll include the first sentence after the blbiographic citation.] Hanawalt, Barbara A. 2007. The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-19-531176-1 -- As my regular readers are aware, I have this series (hey, two is a series, right?) of survey essays on topics relevant to writing historic fiction about lesbians.
July: My tomatoes outgrew the little wire cage I set up when I planted them. [Yeah, no kidding. One of the tomato plants alone ended up being about the size of a refrigerator.]
August: [Dream Journal] The dream starts out in what must be a sort of family Christmas gathering context (except it otherwise feels like summer time).
September: [Dream Journal] I think it must be all my friends who are in the middle of buying houses, but I had a homeowner anxiety dream this morning.
October: This evening, I e-mailed the final final final version of Daughter of Mystery off to the production people at Bella Books.
November: Just stashing some 17th c. Welsh insults here, nothing to see, move along.
December: [Cheese review] This is a French cow's milk cheese in the general "brie-like" family with a white mold rind and a ripened, creamy, almost runny paste.
January: Since my survey of the past year suggested that my writing projects are my most common LJ topic, I might as well capitulate and try to renew my commitment to regular posting with more writing topics. [Note: I have 12 postings in 2013 with the tag “writing” so I guess I followed through somewhat.]
February: After breakfast and the obligatory writing session at the coffee shop, I swung by Home Depot to acquire my very own electric pole chainsaw and then accomplished the following: [Technically, the bullet-pointed list that followed is part of the first sentence, but I’ll omit it.]
March: [Um ... March was busy. Very busy. Yeah, that’s it. I didn’t post anything in March. I was a bad girl.]
April: As part of reading the source materials for the recent Perfectly Period Feast, I was perusing the various menus cited in Messisbugo (mid-16th c. Italian cookery manual). [And I really do need to get back to my series of thoroughly geeky posts analyzing the structure of a typical Messisbugo menu.]
May: It's time once again for the Kalamazoo Sessions Live-Blog!
June: [Book blog entry -- I’ll include the first sentence after the blbiographic citation.] Hanawalt, Barbara A. 2007. The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-19-531176-1 -- As my regular readers are aware, I have this series (hey, two is a series, right?) of survey essays on topics relevant to writing historic fiction about lesbians.
July: My tomatoes outgrew the little wire cage I set up when I planted them. [Yeah, no kidding. One of the tomato plants alone ended up being about the size of a refrigerator.]
August: [Dream Journal] The dream starts out in what must be a sort of family Christmas gathering context (except it otherwise feels like summer time).
September: [Dream Journal] I think it must be all my friends who are in the middle of buying houses, but I had a homeowner anxiety dream this morning.
October: This evening, I e-mailed the final final final version of Daughter of Mystery off to the production people at Bella Books.
November: Just stashing some 17th c. Welsh insults here, nothing to see, move along.
December: [Cheese review] This is a French cow's milk cheese in the general "brie-like" family with a white mold rind and a ripened, creamy, almost runny paste.
