I have not been around. I miss you all. Will be at Muskrat Jamboree in two weeks, if anyone else on my flist will be? Limited participation in fandom due to serious and mounting procrastiation problem and associated guilt.

( San Francisco )

So, I'm home. I will NOT be catching up on the flist, because, five days! So if there is anything I should see, please do point me at it.

( cut for road trip babblings )

I-10 was closed right outside Las Cruces, all the way to the Arizona border, apparently because of high winds. For fully four miles up to the closure, both shoulders were lined by semis. A solid unbroken line of them, all stopped and just sitting there, with no drivers visible ( Read more... )

Treasure Island audiobook in the car. Most entertaning.

amara_m is always saying disparaging things about El Paso. Amara, love, you are COMPLETELY right.

Arrived safe and, you know, no less sound than before. Very little in the way of internet- Mariott with no wireless (huh?) and I can't make the actual physical jack work *headdesk* Feeling generally unconnected and deprived. Deprived of fic, deprived of tv, deprived of flist. Due to logistical barriers, will be a solid week before I have ( Read more... )

*Colorado plateau is a hell of a thing. How can land be so flat 6000 feet up ( Read more... )

Randomness ( Read more... )

Spent all day yesterday packing up and watching New Who (HOW MUCH do I love Christopher Eccleston now?). Then off to miriad's, where we ate pizza, she loaned me many books and baked REALLY good cookies, and then showed me the first part of the original Stargate movie (because I WILL end up in some variety of SG fandom. It's become completely inevitable ( Read more... )

The Guardian's books section has an absolutely wonderful little article on characterization. I don't agree with it all, of course, or even most of it, and it heavily privileges "great literature." But I am moved by the slightly floundering attempt of one man to ask "what makes a fictional character?" and to identify what exactly fascinates him ( Read more... )

( The trip to Vegas was exactly what I was hoping for. )