Weekly Accountability Post

Feeling better, finally, though still wrangling a bit of a cough. Spent today picking blueberries and traipsing around farms in eastern Wisconsin, which was delightful. Last weekend's drag show was a lot of fun too! I also got to have lunch with a friend I haven't seen in a year and a half, picked a bunch of tart cherries and currents in the Bancroft Meridian Garden and made cherry-current chutney. And I gave some things away on the neighborhood Buy Nothing group and was gifted with some herbs from a neighbor's garden.

Other items of note:

• Had a screening interview for the job I applied for last week and felt like it went well. I find out tomorrow or Monday if I made it to Round 2 (I expect there to be at least 3 interviews for this).
• Have a phone interview tomorrow and followed up on a referral for a different job.
• Did a practice run for the Strong Women, Strange Worlds reading on 7/15 (which reminds me that I need to do a timed practice run).
• Sent Foxhunt out for reviews and discussed the finalized interior design. So excited about this book!
• Started talking to cover artist Dian Huynh about the cover for Jennifer Goloboy's Obviously, Aliens, which we'll be publishing in December.
• Read some submissions for Queen of Swords Press; we're getting a lot of things that do not fit this reading which is your reminder to read the guidelines and try to familiarize yourself with what a publisher actually publishes and is looking for.
• Did lots of fiddly administrative things and worked on the new short story and the next novel chapter for Patreon.
• Did not make much progress on the Teachable class and need to dig into that tomorrow.
• Going back to the Twin Cities Antiquarian Book Fair for the first time in two years this weekend, but this time on a tight budget and just a few months after the death of my friend, Dave Christenson. Feeling a bit iffy about it, but will see if I can go and think of it as a semi-new event, rather than a familiar one with big loses.
• Going to see "Black Widow," because of course I am. Part of this week's cold recovery has been watching the earlier Fast & Furious movies so I'm clearly in an action frame of mind.

And now to bed and hopefully sleep off this trailing bit of cough that I haven't shaken yet.