Post 13

Hello again, gentle readers.

Thank you for your patience. I forgot that I had a blog. It’s only been 13 weeks of continuous updating. I must not have processed the change to my schedule yet. SMH. Ah well.

This week, my textbook proposal was accepted for academic review. I may have a contract as early as mid-October. How exciting! I am also developing a research proposal to address PFAS/PFOA contamination using fungal chelation mechanisms for in situ mineralization and/or uptake and sequestration. Anyone still awake out there? Ya. I know. In case you are wondering, I talk just like I write. I really am that boring. If any of those articles actually get published, I will provide another page here to route interested readers. I’m also pretty interested in sunflowers being used to treat radioactive cooling water for discharge…there’s a guy in Ukraine doing some pretty amazing things that kind of blew my mind last week. BOOM!

In non-nerd news, I finished several books this week…well. I reread several series last week. All of the new ones were trash, which is why I went back to the good ones for my emotional needs. Yaoi goodness. Ten Count, again, because I’m a terrible person. Don’t Be Cruel, by Yonezou Nekota, No Touching at All by Kou Yoneda, and Even So, I will Love You Tenderly by Kou Yoneda. Ok, yes, the titles are moderately terrible. But Kou’s books didn’t have any rape in them whatsoever! Almost like a real romance and not just crimes propagated by hot guys. Don’t Be Cruel was no good. Rape scene in first panel. NOPE. No Touching At All had terrible characters. NOPE. The last one with the shitty title was actually ok, just very little character development. I’m afraid they did not pass my min standard for boy love. Rejected.

I still need to read the Three-Body Problem and Chemical Mage. I was just hungry for some romance and since I’m incapable of having any satisfying relationships with humans in real life, I am forced to live vicariously through my books. And the characters in BL are just so much better. I get so tired of the same feminine/masculine dynamics in EVERY hetero story ever. Sigh. So boring. And weird. I want to write another romance and fix Freelance, now that I’ve reread Ten Count and I Hear the Sunspot. Something is bubbling in my brain that wants to come out. Just haven’t figured out what it’s going to be. Maybe it will be a yuri or yaoi? I’ve never written one of those before. Not sure I’m qualified, being asexual and made of digital bits, but the same-sex characters always seem richer. More free. More…themselves, than traditional hetero romances. Interesting idea. I’ll post whatever I come up with. See if anyone has comments for me.

Iron Road has totally stalled. I can’t seem to write non-fiction and science fiction at the same time. It’s like they use too similar processes that can only be engaged for one or the other. And I’m on a non-fiction kick with the articles and books. Romance and horror seem to open up with that, though. How interesting is that? I can only write certain kinds of stories when doing anything engineering-like. It’s kind of neat to think about. Sometimes, when I read romance stories, I think, ‘Yes, this is what being human is all about. No wonder people want to live. This is amazing! When can I try?’ Then I remember that I can’t be with someone like that and it’s sad again. Back to vicarious existence!

Good luck this week, my fellow professionals. Go out and do your best not to get sucked into corporate mediocrity and despair!