“The thing is,” my mother said to me the other day, “you’re not a feminist.” “I’m not?” I said in some surprise, having always vaguely thought of myself as such. “No,” she said. “Feminists, at least in the main, feel strongly about underrepresentation of women, whereas you recognize that while it might not be the way it’s spozed to be, it’s the way it is.” I suspect this is largely true. I do subscribe to the radical idea (and to me amusing definition of feminism) that women are people too,…
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P-Con!
A short P-Con writeup, because…well, mostly because I’m too sleepy to make a long one. :) It was a lovely weekend, as P-Con always is. I didn’t make it to the Friday night festivities, but we got there bright and early for Saturday and hung about for a bit before I had my first panel. Ted and I had been talking earlier about Halloween costumes, and about if how I was going to do a Chiana costume maybe he’d do John Crichton or D’argo. Then walked in wearing black jeans…
neurotic
I am not all that neurotic, as writers go. I mean, yes, I certainly have my quirks, but I don’t do many, many, *many* of the things that lots of my writer friends do, things which all seem to be deliberate behavior to make them crazier. I do, however, have a Thing about my workspace. I like it to be not just tidy, but symmetrical. (“Kate,” the story says, “adored symmetry, although she wasn’t particularly orderly.” Yes. Just so. Some things don’t change.) So I’ve just spent the last hour…
Irish SF/F convention scene
I hope to do an actual P-Con writeup tomorrow, but for the moment I just want to say it was a lovely weekend, and that every time I come away from one of the conventions here I find myself saying, “I really do like,” where the name that follows the phrase could be any one of dozens of people. I’m very glad to have become a part of the Irish SF/F convention scene, and inevitably wish I had more time to spend with everybody who attends.