This was another crazy week. Last week I traveled to Philadelphia for work, and came home with serious sleep deprivation and apparently a mild case of the flu, or whatever crud is floating around this month. I was sick enough that I took a day off, but work was busy enough that I still put in more than 40 hours of billable time. So now I am less sick, but more tired.

Reading

I haven’t had the time or energy to focus on reading anything new, but I did finish a re-read of William Gibson’s Spook Country, the second in his Blue Ant trilogy. It was very good, and I think I should read the final book in the trilogy, Zero History, sometime in the next month.

Writing

As with the week before, this past week was so chaotic I barely had time to put words in my journal, much less indulge in creative work.

Weekly Writing Prompt

Subject: Undead, Politics
Setting: Space
Genre: Folk Tale

Interesting Links

• “More Handwringing About Collapsing Birth Rates: How Focus on Gender Roles Misses the Mark” (Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism)