( Image of my garden haul from Saturday )Four eggplants and lots of basil! (Three of the eggplants have already disappeared, as I have discovered that nasu dengaku is delicious.) I have another eggplant I need to harvest tomorrow, too, plus more peppers coming in - I finally figured out which pepper was the odd one out because it's growing long fruit that I think are supposed to turn red, not the tiny yellow ones. My basil did start catching some sort of fungal infection :/ but they seem to be recovering, though I need to spray them again. I've been picking plenty of leaves (which they regrow just as fast, it seems) so ventilation shouldn't be an issue. I have been throwing the leaves in anything I can - pasta, soup, pesto.
I've been very busy this month - I had a lit review that I had to finish for my program requirements. I just sent it in last Thursday, and my advisor wants to discuss it tomorrow. My beta readers thought it was great - hopefully he won't be too, "You need to change this and this and I don't know how you even concluded this and take this part out and why didn't you talk about so and so in this part?" (Mostly because it was a pain to write for various reasons. And I still have to do a presentation for it, but that part's easy!) I have an exam tomorrow, too, but I don't think it should be too hard.
Most of my free time not spent writing the lit review was focused on my Relationshipping fic, and as soon as that was done I promised myself not to write anything else until the review was done. You would think that I would be happy to take a break after finishing a 20k fic, but apparently my brain is bursting with ideas and enthusiasm. It'll be nice to write something I actually want to work on again, that isn't academic. I'm not starting anything for Trick or Treat yet, but I have a list of people I want to write treats for, and I might even try drawing something for someone.
And I want to get back to
Genji. (I did take a day off to read the last book of Lockwood & co when it arrived, and very much enjoyed it.) And all the longer Rare Ships on Ice stuff I haven't had time to read. Actual research and programming, too, and it would be nice if I knew that the rest of my research group was alive....
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