love in the vessel of time

Cat Valente's short story 'The difference between love and time' just turned my brain inside out, in a good way, and now I'm crying. On Tor.com.

In other news, Cat Valente continues to be my literary girl crush.

In other, other news, the COVID brain fog also continues, in the last week I have distinguished myself by taking 4 hours to train curriculum advisors, which usually takes 2, necessitating a complete second session and a catchup set of notes on the examples we didn't have time for. Running training feels weird - what I say is coherent, apparently, but I don't have my usual fairly efficient and incisive control over the ideas I'm presenting. Bugger COVID, anyway. Horrible little thing. I still have a lyric-soprano-in-a-garret cough.

I am quite spectacularly tired, and going into three months of exam committees, orientation and registration. Yay.