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Works and stuffs
First day back at work after my trip. I love my job and am glad to have it, but ye gods, too much to do. I have six different 'summer' tasks still unfinished and now we're gearing up for teaching to start and yiiiikes ( Read more... ) -
The original and best
G and I have been watching the original Star Trek movies. Three movies in, I now fully understand why Kirk/Spock is considered to be the birth of modern slash.
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New children's laureate Malorie Blackman (and why it matters)
(Coming out of lurkerdom to make a brief post on something important to me.)
Congratulations to Malorie Blackman, the new UK Children's Laureate! All the previous Laureates have done amazing work promoting children's books and reading, and I am thrilled to have a POC as the new incumbent.
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OTW Board Elections!
Elections season is starting at the OTW and the OTW Board Candidates have been announced! All of them are lovely! One of them is me! (Many of you will be able to guess which one, but please don't connect my real name and my fannish one publicly.)
I'm very excited! When I wandered into the OTW in 2008 I had no idea that I would ever want to run for ( Read more... ) -
Fannishness, (non)profit, and the OTW
In amidst all the commentary on Keith Mander and his ill-advised attempt to profit by fandom,
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You can't hide behind social graces
After lagging behind the whole of the season and basically slipping off LJ because I was so habituated to avoiding spoilers, I finally got caught up with the whole of Supernatural Season 6. ( Not squeeful. ) -
Good day :D
Today was most awesome. My sister had her first ever riding competition and placed second in her group! She's only been riding for about six months, so we really didn't expect her to do so well. She was so pleased and excited, and my mum cried. :D Riding is definitely the best thing she has ever been involved in, and we were super-lucky to find a ( Read more... )
