Let’s see. Friday I had a 10:30am thing, which I know because I couldn’t have breakfast with the family. Oh, yes, it turned out to be what Geoffrey Landis said might have been the most fun he’d ever had at an ICFA panel! laughs It was a panel with myself and Kate JohnsTon, moderated by Novella, and Kate read an incredibly funny piece from the point of view of a genetically engineered modern T-Rex who was very, very horny, followed by two more very funny pieces, after which I read…
Ok, I’m going to try an actual con writeup here, before I forget everything. We got into Florida on Tuesday evening, collapsed into bed around 11pm, got up at 8am, and as I kept telling people all week, “I’m doing really well right now, but as of about 6pm, I make no promises for the rest of the evening!” Which was pretty prophetic: I hit a wall hard around 6pm every night, but also usually had a dinner or other activity planned, and since I can keep going forever as…
I’m back from the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) where I was a guest of honor over the past week, and I am ridiculously tired but had a wonderful time. I am, in fact, too tired to type coherently, so if this is fully of typos, I… will assume you can read through them bc omg. so tired. :) I’d never been to ICFA and was, tbh, very very nervous and feeling quite imposter-syndromey, which is not my general modus operandi, but my god, guys, the…
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…