…but I recently read an “advice to young people” thing that said, “Don’t tell people you’re tired. Everybody’s tired, and they don’t care if you are too.” Actually, what I thought about that was, 1. F#ck you, asshole, and 2. There’s obviously something wrong with our society if tired is everybody’s default. But anyway. I do wish I’d stop waking up at 5am, because I almost never get any meaningful sleep once that happens. Alternately, I suppose I wish I’d go to bed at 9pm so waking up at 5…
This was taken in Belfast, but beyond that I have no idea at all where I was. Pretty, though, isn’t it? :) This was taken in the main square of Cobh, and somehow ended up in my Belfast folder, thus confusing me enormously. It did not, however, confuse Nicholas Whyte, who set me straight… :)
My fandom is a mess. Not just my fandom. The halls of my chosen career, too. SFF is a mess, in a political sense, with regards to sexism and racism. There’s the very recent problem with the SFWA Bulletin (type SFWA into Google and that link is the first thing that comes up), there’s the nobody-is-surprised news that Tor editor Jim Frenkel has had a formal report filed against him for sexual harrassment, there’s there genuinely bizarre fake geek girl hubub…it all goes on and on, and it’s being discussed…
i have made my web designer happy. :) she has gone above and beyond the call of duty on the amalgamation of mizkit/kitsnaps/cemurphy, building a non-slidimg header widget, developing unique page layouts for each, she’s working on aan increasingly shiny cemurphy interface–the list goes on. and she’d mentioned she didn’t have the the latest few walker papers, so i said i’d send them to her. bit then i was terribly late sending them to her, so i added a few extras, including the early drafts of the books i’m writing…
At some point I had looked up what kind of butterfly this is, but I’ve long since forgotten. These flowers, though, attract them, and there’s a whole garden area on the Blarney Castle grounds where they cultivate the flowers to draw the insects. It was wonderful fun in there with my friend Susannah, creeping after butterflies and inhaling the scent of the blooms.