I've Been Busy

So this Sunday afternoon in my time zone, I watched the live broadcast of the hugo awards. I had all the feels. The ceremony was well done, and the broadcast worked the whole time. (Well it started cutting out towards the end, but I'm pretty sure the problem was on my end.) I'm so pleased with this years winners. Sofia Samatar! Kameron Hurley! Julie Dillon! Ann Leckie! (Full list here)

I'm also continuing to work on my thesis. It is going well. I was really overwhelmed went I opened it at it was full of red comments, but now most them are gone. I'm going to have to go over the footnotes with fine toothed comb still, and work on better including secondary sources.

Ruby is starting to explore the house and meet the other cats. She spent a good chuck of this morning upstairs with other people.

Yesterday afternoon I hung out with my niece, my mother's friend, and her two grand daughters. We played clue (know as Cludo in other parts of the world), bocce ball, and sorry, and ate cookies and ran around outside. Playing boardgames with kids is different form playing with adults. Afterwards I took my niece back to my mom's house. Some how we ended up looking at all the sweaters and dresses my mom made for me as child. My mom made some awesome sweaters. I picked the patterns for the dresses, and had at the time a taste for frills.

Today I had lunch with my mother. Generally she has Wednesdays off, but she had to work today. So we ended up having a late lunch. We had pizza with figs, blue cheese and arugula (rocket). It was so good! Afterwards we went cheese shopping.