Still Around

[amalthia]

I've been AWOL lately. This weekend I decided to cut back computer usage and instead finished watching the rest of Smallville season 10, saw X-Men First Class, and I've been reading a lot of DCU fan fiction on my Sony PRS.

School starts tomorrow and I'm taking two grad school level classes in five weeks. I'm not sure how fast it's going to be or what the workload is going to be like so I've been enjoying my three week vacation from school to the fullest. Which means watching lots of TV and enjoying the fic.

I finally got around to watching Under the Red Hood and Young Justice. I still have the Batman Adventures to watch. I'm having a blast with this fandom. :) There is so much canon. I'm still sort of waiting to get an Ipad or Xoom before reading the comics. In the meantime, the comic wiki sites are pretty good to get information about the characters. And I hope they have instructions on how to read the comics. I've seen panels but I'm not sure which box to read first?

I'm not sure why I'm so obsessed with DCU because I don't even think I got into Smallville the way I'm into the Batman stories. But I'm enjoying it.

Everything else I normally do has sort of fallen along the wayside in terms of posting recs and updating the Ebook Library. Now that the A03 has the ebook download options I'm not sure if the Ebook Library is as helpful or as necessary as it was in the past. Though not all authors post to the A03 so I may focus on adding stories from authors who aren't on the A03 so ebook versions of their works are available somewhere. As for rec posts...I think because I've been cutting back my computer use at home I just haven't been doing it as much, or I find myself posting a month's worth of recs at once when my neck and wrists aren't in too much pain.

All in all, I think a vacation away from archiving has been good this is the first time in weeks that my neck isn't hurting. I also feel more relaxed and not as burned out as I did a month ago. :) It's funny how watching TV/crocheting granny squares all weekend can help relieve pain.

My main goal this week is to find out how to combine all these granny squares I've made.

Comments

welp

[talking_sock]

I don't think you should post/format if you have physical pain. OTOH, I have missed your recs. But I'm also not reading DCU or Inception, so I'm way behind the curve. Just wanted to say thanks and hi, and I did catch up on the stuff you put in the mobi dump last time...

Re: welp

[amalthia]

Yeah, I still read a bit of Smallville but mostly I'm on a DCU kick. I'm not sure if I'm going to read much SPN or SGA anymore. But then again I said the same about Harry Potter and I still revisit the fandom and stories from time to time. :)

I do plan on creating ebooks for stories in SPN and SGA at least for authors who have already given me permission to host their works on the Ebook Library.

[waketosleep]

I crochet! How many granny squares have you got and are they all the same size?

[amalthia]

I kind of lost count of how many squares I have. I think it's about 50 and they are all about the same size. I mean I tried to make it so there are five holes across the top but some seem smaller than others. I think I did some more tightly than others. But for the most part same size.

I'd appreciate any and all advice on how to combine the squares without having a ridge down the middle of the merged squares?

[waketosleep]

Mattress stitch is the best way to put them together without having a bump at the join, but that will only happen if you're half-decent at sewing in the first place. If you're meh on making a blanket then you can probably find a wide assortment of projects on Ravelry that use granny squares. I have a bag made of them that I like.

[amalthia]

I'll look in my book for the mattress stitch and see if they have it. If not Youtube here I come. :)

Thank you so much! I'm okay at sewing I think. I'll just have to give it a try. :)

[waketosleep]

http://www.domiknitrix.com/howtos/mattress_stitch.cfm

[amalthia]

Thanks!