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Almost done with Venu’s order of a tray and eight coasters. I want to add one more thin flood coat to the tray — if you look at the bottom left, you can see where a layer of resin didn’t make it all the way to the edge, and it’s bugging me. A top coat should take care of it, though, so in a few days, these will be ready. L JP, yours is ready
Home. Couldn’t sleep at all last night for no good reason, so super tired and yucky travel day, but Kevin greeted me with rice and my favorite curry, which was lovely, and now I’m going to take a bath and go to bed for twelve hours. Okay, probably not twelve hours. But at least eight and maybe ten. Pic from yesterday, when I was better rested.
Morningside Park, New York. Was pleased with that first photo — note the kids on the swings. 🙂
Very conveniently, the #kweli24 conference is a 20-minute walk from my sister’s place in Harlem, and to make it even nicer, it’s mostly a walk through Morningside Park. There’s a huge elevation change from one side to the other, so I’ve either been going down a lot of steps (going home to her place in the evening), or going up a lot of steps (coming back to the conference in the morning). View from the
Morning crafting with my niece; Savreen and I made boats! (Gian made waffles, also important.)
Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.
Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org). She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. www.maryannemohanraj.com
