"The only inconvenience is, that none of these projects are yet brought to perfection; and in the mean time, the whole country lies miserably waste, the houses in ruins, and the people without food or clothes." [4/4]

"In these colleges the professors contrive new rules and methods of agriculture and building, and new instruments, and tools for all trades and manufactures... [3/4]

"that these persons, upon their return, began to dislike the management of every thing below, and fell into schemes of putting all arts, sciences, languages, and mechanics, upon a new foot. To this end, they procured a royal patent for erecting an academy of projectors in Lagado; [2/]

My HS friends and I tried endlessly to defeat our school motion detector light systems recreating the slow walk scene. Formative fiction. I want a Winnebago.

I just spent two weeks trying to revise a chapter section that wasn't working, only to realize the reason it didn't work was that I was just plain wrong. 🫠

Flu season has been intense this winter in my area. (And go Costco!)

Vonda MacIntyre, Dreamsnake. Not the main character though, iirc.