{"id":1676,"date":"2012-09-09T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T21:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2012-09-09T15:14:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T21:14:31","slug":"sustaining-the-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Sustaining the Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s this maintenance thing with older bodies.\u00a0\u00a0 And one thing my mother told me years ago that’s both true and useful (only one? I hear a mutter from overhead.)\u00a0\u00a0 It’s about feet.\u00a0 Unhappy feet make for unhappy cranky people.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve now been to three conventions wearing only handknit socks.\u00a0\u00a0 For A-Kon I had only three pair.\u00a0\u00a0 For ArmadilloCon I had four pair.\u00a0 For WorldCon I had five pair.\u00a0\u00a0 It made a huge difference.\u00a0 Even though my feet swelled badly on a couple of days (hard floors, lots of standing, etc.)\u00a0 the socks didn’t dig in and make things worse.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m hoping to get the sixth pair finished by NYCC, as that will be a longer trip, with fewer opportunities to wash & dry wool socks.\u00a0 (These are not machine-washable wool socks.)<\/p>\n

Here are the A-Kon socks,\u00a0 in order of seniority, left (oldest) to right:<\/p>\n

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Here are the WorldCon socks, in order of seniority, R to L (same three pairs of course at the other end of the row.)<\/p>\n

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The short red ones (that I have on today)\u00a0 were the first, and are the biggest in width.\u00a0 Too big, but boy are they comfy anyway.\u00a0\u00a0 The teal blue (second pair) are a little too big.\u00a0 The greens are the first with a reinforced heel (eye of partridge); the second reds are the best fit so far in the foot, though just a little long in the toe.\u00a0 The light\/medium blue were difficult but I did manage a different heel reinforcing stitch and they fit pretty well.<\/p>\n

Next are the more emerald green (past the gussets and onto the foot), and the first turquoise (only on the ribbing so far.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the future: purple, more red (I really like red socks!),\u00a0 a true royal blue,\u00a0 another turquoise, another emerald green, a rich brown, a burgundy-ish.<\/p>\n

Other maintenance chores to sustain the writer….exercise, food, music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s this maintenance thing with older bodies.\u00a0\u00a0 And one thing my mother told me years ago that’s both true and useful (only one? I hear a mutter from overhead.)\u00a0\u00a0 It’s about feet.\u00a0 Unhappy feet make for unhappy cranky people.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve now been to three conventions wearing only handknit socks.\u00a0\u00a0 For A-Kon I had only three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}