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Big accomplishments for the day are: killing a wasp in the kitchen via the overhand freethrow of a convenient magazine at the window, and finally perfecting that damned introductory chapter, which now comes in at a tidy 50 pages.

Three guesses as to which one I'm happier with. 

Off to KGB now ... y'all should come, if you like Elizabeth Bear and William Shunn.  As you should.

Edit: Saved by davekirtley.  Apparently, I'm off on KGB by a damned week - not because I believed that KGB had switched to the second Wednesday of the month rather than the third, but because I was honestly convinced that today was the 16th.  See, now, that's what the emotional distress of fixating on one's dissertation to the exclusion of all else can do to a gal ....

I mean, a week.  Plenty of people get confused about what day of the week it might be, but leave it to me to lose 7 of 'em.  

Bah.  Will still feel happy about the accomplishments, if a tad silly, otherwise.

P.S. - Come to KGB next week.  Now with advance warning!

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Big accomplishments for the day are: killing a wasp in the kitchen via the overhand freethrow of a convenient magazine at the window, and finally perfecting that damned introductory chapter, which now comes in at a tidy 50 pages.

Three guesses as to which one I'm happier with. 

Off to KGB now ... y'all should come, if you like Elizabeth Bear and William Shunn.  As you should.

Edit: Saved by davekirtley.  Apparently, I'm off on KGB by a damned week - not because I believed that KGB had switched to the second Wednesday of the month rather than the third, but because I was honestly convinced that today was the 16th.  See, now, that's what the emotional distress of fixating on one's dissertation to the exclusion of all else can do to a gal ....

I mean, a week.  Plenty of people get confused about what day of the week it might be, but leave it to me to lose 7 of 'em.  

Bah.  Will still feel happy about the accomplishments, if a tad silly, otherwise.

P.S. - Come to KGB next week.  Now with advance warning!

Okay, now ....

While I don't want this journal to go into self-aggrandizing territory ....

... I quite like IROSF, the Internet Review of Science Fiction.

And that is why this quotation from a rundown of WisCon is particularly heartening:

"Total Disclosure: the subtitle of this review "The witch is dead. Long live the witch," was one of Ms. Pilinovsky's quotes. Perhaps the best quote from the con. Maybe even, the best quote evah!"

Ahem.  Now, while I don't necessarily agree with/approve of the entire review, which has an interestingly "No, really, guys can feel comfortable there!" feel to it ....*

Awesome.

* I note this only because WisCon is one of the most inclusive environments that I have ever had the pleasure of being involved in, and I find these kinds of retroactive apologetics potentially awkward.  After all, I've never heard them out of ICFA, where I once got asked if I'd like to pose naked in a "Women of SF" calender, all expenses paid.**

** I will also say, anectdote aside, it was a very ... respectful ... offer, and that once it was noted that said offer made me uncomfortable, I was promptly assisted in extricating myself from said conversation.  ICFA is also one of the most inclusive environments that I have ever had the pleasure of participating in, it just seems to have to do less apologizing strictly because it is not an expressly ism-y kind of a place.  Makes one wonder, a bit.

Okay, now ....

While I don't want this journal to go into self-aggrandizing territory ....

... I quite like IROSF, the Internet Review of Science Fiction.

And that is why this quotation from a rundown of WisCon is particularly heartening:

"Total Disclosure: the subtitle of this review "The witch is dead. Long live the witch," was one of Ms. Pilinovsky's quotes. Perhaps the best quote from the con. Maybe even, the best quote evah!"

Ahem.  Now, while I don't necessarily agree with/approve of the entire review, which has an interestingly "No, really, guys can feel comfortable there!" feel to it ....*

Awesome.

* I note this only because WisCon is one of the most inclusive environments that I have ever had the pleasure of being involved in, and I find these kinds of retroactive apologetics potentially awkward.  After all, I've never heard them out of ICFA, where I once got asked if I'd like to pose naked in a "Women of SF" calender, all expenses paid.**

** I will also say, anectdote aside, it was a very ... respectful ... offer, and that once it was noted that said offer made me uncomfortable, I was promptly assisted in extricating myself from said conversation.  ICFA is also one of the most inclusive environments that I have ever had the pleasure of participating in, it just seems to have to do less apologizing strictly because it is not an expressly ism-y kind of a place.  Makes one wonder, a bit.