I have totally had enough ( Read more... )

As by the time I joined LJ I was no longer teaching American history, most of you probably don't know that I taught African American history (17th through the end of the 20th century) for almost a decade. My specialist period was 1880 to 1950 (the civil rights era everyone has forgotten) but I studied US and Carribbean slavery as an undergrad and ( Read more... )

It's beginning to look as if you could get a lot of bang for your buck if you decided to come to London for Worldcon. This is what I know is happening so far ( Read more... )

I had fun yesterday with a novel length Star Trek fan fic: Vulcan is blown up, the remaining Vulcans seek refuge on a planet which is mostly populated by communities which have experienced the same thing and are therefore welcoming (which isn't what tends to happen, but I was willing to accept it for the purposes of plot) and they set out to seek ( Read more... )

This is for my final chapter. It feels weak and superficial. We have the obvious -- Meyer, Clare-- but welcome other suggestions. Feel free to circulate.

Edit: since 1995 please.

If I could remember it I'd type it up but this has been a middling year in which nothing fantastic and nothing terrible happened. This is Good. Next year will be huge thanks to Loncon 3 and a series of events in its wake. Also, I hope to get a deeper grasp on my job. I had the year of WHat the Hell Am I Doing? And the year of I Seem to Have Most of ( Read more... )

There is one real issue with Health and Safety that is only just I think beginning to be addressed, and that is that the less experienced we are with danger, the more niaive and stupid we can be. Car safety specialists are beginning to realise this as they start to question whether making cars safer may endanger pedestrians, but the one that ( Read more... )

Despite a cold that left me feeling distinctly wiped yesterday it's all going to plan and I will finish the second draft on New Year's Eve ( Read more... )

Everyone's been raving about this but the first time I tried it I got bored and drifted off. Finally got back to it yesterday feeling I really ought to try it again ( Read more... )

I'm beginning to make my lists, and I'll post them here eventually in a "sharing ideas" kind of way, but if you are looking for something a bit different for best pro artist check out Tessa Farmer: http://www.tessafarmer.com/imageshog.html