From our trip to London last month! We about froze to death on the bus tour (because we were FOOLS and rode on the TOP) but it was well worth it. Our guide, Barry, was so brilliant we were totally unwilling to hop off anywhere for fear of missing the rest of his lecture, and London in the snow was quite beautiful. This is one of my favorite pictures I took, looking back at Westminster. After we got off the bus we were all so numb from cold that we…
Home again. Totally wiped out. Have read HALTING STATE and OFF ARMAGEDDON REEF (Charles Stross and David Weber, respectively) and enjoyed them both a great deal. HALTING STATE sounds more like Charlie himself than any of his other books I’ve read, so that was particularly fun. Did not work at all on my revisions. Raise your hand if you’re surprised. Ate constantly throughout the weekend, except when I was talking. Fortunately I was scheduled to talk a fair bit, but I still ate a lot. A lot a lot a…
I don’t like traveling. I don’t like the *preparations* for traveling, particularly. I like being places. I just don’t like everything it takes to get there. I always feel like I have 12,000 million billion things to do RIGHT NOW before I leave. I’ve gotten better about early organizing in the last couple of years (mostly to try and spare Ted, who takes the brunt of my ill humor if I’m insufficiently prepared), but it’s all a major PITA anyway. So today is the List Of A Hundred Jillion Things…
…that I know, via LJ or otherwise, someone in London with whom I could crash the evening of the 18th of September? I’m only going to be there basically long enough to do the signing, flying in the afternoon of the 18th and flying out on the 19th, but I am cheap and if I can avoid paying London hotel rates for even one night, that would be…nice. :) I’m thinking of doing a week’s worth of fiction postings at the end of the month. It may be an Internet…
I have not gotten travel grant money for my proposed trip to London and FantasyCon, which means I’m only going to London. Blast. Well, maybe next year we can go to FantasyCon.