You know, one thing about writing both fanfic and original fic, I'm finding, is that you tend to get a little obsessive about things like timelines that if you are lucky someone will be trying to reconstruct someday. Or that could just be me and my scattered bits of compulsiveness. I know LMB did write fic, but I have a feeling it was not the sort that involved lots of detail and calendars. And I fully sympathize with her invention of the day with extra hours in it, but omg what a headache for figuring out stuff like pregnancy lengths and how old people are really. (Do Barrayarans only apparently age faster? Well, no, there is Cordelia, but you see what I mean.) Anyway, I had a feeling that autumn went on forever. I agree that hand-waving is often the only solution.