Harvest time

[luzula]

1) Work hit me like a brick wall in the first week of the semester: a fully online course, and one that I've never taught before, with about a hundred students, who are all new. So tons of questions, etc, mostly of a practical nature. Ugh. Hands hurt, shoulders stiff.

2) Nevertheless I have finished drafts of two big fannish projects lately: one is the audiobook of Flemington, by Violet Jacob, for Librivox. It'll be about eight hours. The other is the alternate ending of my latest Flight of the Heron fic; I am very pleased that it went over 30K, thus putting the whole verse over 100k! \o/

3) Am now working from the family summer place for a week. Look at all the mushrooms Mom and I picked today! They are almost all the delicious Boletus edulis. Now we just have to slice and dry them all...

Comments

[isis]

Ooh, what a haul, I'm envious! We should be seeing boletes now but our very dry summer has meant no mushrooms. B went hiking on his own to fish in the wilderness (my broken toe is not yet healed enough to hike) and he reported zero zip nada. We still have some dried B. edulis from last year but getting down to the crumbs.

[jesse_the_k]

Mmmmmmmushrooms. They look so tasty!

How do you dry them?

I'm sorry the new term is taking a toll on your hands and shoulders.

[seascribble]

shrooms!

I can barely handle a zoom meeting with 6 school staff, I can't imagine doing a class of 100. Thankfully we're in person, with good results so far but we'll see.

[chestnut_pod]

I hope it gets easier as the term continues, and sorry it's so tough right now.

[abbylee]

That is a tough week of work. I hope your class ends up running smoothly.

Also: wow, those mushrooms!

[regshoe]

Oof, that does sound tough—I hope things at work calm down soon. And congratulations on the fic and the audiobook—100k is certainly an achievement :D

[dolorosa_12]

Wow, that in an epic mushroom harvest!

[hurry_sundown]

Online is not the best. Poor Child has everything online this semester, and she's really stressed about it. I hope your class gets easier for you once the technical stuff settles down. Also? Mushrooms, yum! Although with my luck, I'd manage to poison myself ...

[dhampyresa]

So many mushrooms! Plans on how you'll eat them?