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How to Procrastinate
Working hard or hardly working? HA HA HA HA HA no seriously, I have a problem.
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Worst. Birthday Gift. Ever.
Apparently I have weird-shaped legs. Also I suck at picking out birthday gifts for myself.
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2013 James Tiptree Award Winner and Honor List Announced
I’m not sure when exactly this happened; I was too preoccupied with moving since late January to continue with my obsessive refreshing of the Tiptree website.
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BYOB(ookworm)
I am always in a rush in a hurry / to fill up my notebooks with blather ā
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2013 in retrospect
I want to focus on the good, and work towards making 2014 much better. With that in mind, here is my list of pretty cool/awesome things that happened this year.
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Accomplishments
Yesterday I finished proofing the print copy of Stranger Skies, made edits to the file, and sent the files off to the printer’s. I’m glad I actually sat myself down and proofed the thing. I was feeling a bit “BUT I’VE DONE IT SO MANY TIMES ALREADY” when I got it and didn’t want to…
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Well, I don’t know, maybe bras do bray.
Yesterday I woke up at 6pm. The takeaway from this is that my sleep schedule has been borked. Again. So, natch, I’m pulling an all-nighter to right it. I have my first volunteer day for VIWF on Thursday. 10 am, Granville Island. I’ll need an hour to drive out there and an hour to get…
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I have the best fans
I spent Saturday at Vancouver Pagan Pride Day. No booth; I was just there as an attendee. I did bring 40 cards with codes on them for free downloads of Bellica. I figured I’d talk it up a bit and hand out the cards, maybe, sort of? I’m terrible at talking myself or my books…
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Mercury, You Are Drunk. Give Me Your Keys.
Mercury does this thing about three times a year. Well, actually, it doesn’t really do anything; it just looks like it’s doing something. From Earth it looks like Mercury is moving backwards. They call it retrograde. And dammit if it doesn’t just fuck everything up. IĀ mean, yeah, sure, it’s just a planet and it’s…
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I just finished a novel, no big deal
You read that right. I just finished Stranger Skies, the NaNoWriMo novel I’ve been posting snippets from for SFFSat. First draft clocks in at just over 70,000 words. Definitely shorter than Bellica‘s ~250,000 words, but then Bellica was meant to be a standalone (ha ha) and Stranger Skies is going to be the first in…