Getting ready today to leave tomorrow for a Canadian vacation.  First stop, Toronto and a few days in Niagara Falls.  Then onto Montreal and Worldcon excitement!  Hope I have everything I want ( Read more... )

Hmm.  Should I sign up for the writer's workshop at WorldCon?  Deadline is soon.

It might be good to be critiqued by a different group of people....  I dunno.  Peanut gallery?  Any opinions?  I do have a story that I think would be ideal.

First of all, NY Times had an advertisement on their website just now featuring a photo of shingles.  I know I'm a bit squeamish, but ick!  I'm therefore not reading the NY Times today ( Read more... )

The last set.  Definitely more goodness in here ( Read more... )

Here I hit a high point, book-wise, starting with the Michael Cox.  I'm not saying the following books were perfect, by any means, but I enjoyed reading all of them.  I'd say that none of them are must-reads (as opposed to, say, The Forever War or one of Bujold's Miles stories, which I think merits a read if you're at all interested in speculative ( Read more... )

You can see on this list about when I injured my knees, because that's when I spent hours upon hours wallowing on the couch reading chicklit ( Read more... )

Yes,hollailama has been expecting this post.  Her wonderful photo of zunger , Simran, and I at Wiscon ran in the most recent Locus.  So now I am totally famous, just so you all know.  The photo is even placed near the top of the layout.  I look very excited in it, which is an accurate representation of my time at WisCon. :)

Also published are the results of the ( Read more... )

I've been doing an experiment this year of writing down every book that I finish reading.  The "finish" is key here, as there are many books that I read part of that never made it onto the list.  Now that we're at the halfway point of the year, month-wise, I'm going to post my list with short blurbs.  I'll try to keep it relatively spoiler-free, ( Read more... )

I got a Kindle 2 for my birthday!  Happy times!  I'm not usually a sucker for high-tech gadgets (please note my lack of an iPhone or iPod, and my very recent laptop purchase), but the Kindle is just so neat.  It's surprisingly easy to read on, although the formatting does get messed up at times.  I haven't gotten tired of watching the page changes ( Read more... )

Hooray!  This week I finished rough drafts of two short stories, with the working titles "Character Building" and "Watermelon Heads".  Both of them were experiments for me, and both were surprisingly fun to write.  Plus, they don't even clock in very long, at 2600 and 3800 words respectively.  Finally I've succeeded at moving away from the 7000 ( Read more... )