writing is easy and other lies
When I have no time, I want to write. When I have time... I give myself writer's block.
Awesome.
It's sunny here today and the mounds of snow have turned to weighted slush. I'm considering whether I should stop by the parents and offer to lift things higher in the basement, because the snow at the end of their drive was higher than my head last weekend, and I have no idea where all that water's going to go. My back hurts still from last week's bulldozer adventures, so I'm avoiding further shoveling.
I scored tickets to the closest Welcome to Night Vale live show, which was slightly more difficult than it needed to be, thanks ever so, venue. I am looking forward to it, though! And I officially have that entire day off, so I can go play in the city ahead of the show.
Did I tell y'all about the anime con? Yes, no, maybe? Ok, I just checked. No, I did not! So. I went to an anime con, briefly met a hieronymousmosh who was in the city for Unrelated Reasons (probably she's a spy), and got to hang out with the much missed watchersprout for an entire weekend.
Also, I hung out with watchersprout's boyfriend (aka a con guest and therefore the reason she was at this particular con), another of her friends from up here, and occasional assorted others who were mostly accompanying the other guests. I dressed as a comic book character and went mostly to the 18 years + panels and learned some dirty ASL. (Also, props to the convention for providing ASL interpreters, even if the poor boy-type one was completely embarrassed by the language at the roast and repeatedly had to tag out with the others.) And I bought a cool-seeming card game, if I can ever get friends into the same physical space to play it.
This weekend, I'm going to an itty-bitty new local comic con, followed by a Meet Up event. I signed up for Meet Up awhile back but have yet to actually... meet with anyone. Partly because my schedule is terrible for planning things, but also because new people are terrifying. But I'm going to this one. *strong face*
I read Ancillary Justice, and it's as good as you've heard. If you like spaceships, unique characters, betrayal and quests for vengeance, and/or interesting social construction of gender, you should check it out.
I'm now reading Aurorarama, and it's not so great. I don't like the main POV characters and there's too much going on with the steampunk-ish setting. Which, actually, is my complaint with most of the steampunk I've read - too many concepts stacked on top of each other until plot and character vanish below the waves. Although at least this one doesn't seem likely to introduce aliens two thirds of the way through. Still not sure if there's time travel going on or not. Which you would think would be obvious, but sadly not.
Also, I have little to no interest in fictional drug use/abuse. And there's a lot of it in this book. Blargh.
Anyway. Back to writing. What's new with you?
The Dreamwidth version of this entry currently has
comments.
Awesome.
It's sunny here today and the mounds of snow have turned to weighted slush. I'm considering whether I should stop by the parents and offer to lift things higher in the basement, because the snow at the end of their drive was higher than my head last weekend, and I have no idea where all that water's going to go. My back hurts still from last week's bulldozer adventures, so I'm avoiding further shoveling.
I scored tickets to the closest Welcome to Night Vale live show, which was slightly more difficult than it needed to be, thanks ever so, venue. I am looking forward to it, though! And I officially have that entire day off, so I can go play in the city ahead of the show.
Did I tell y'all about the anime con? Yes, no, maybe? Ok, I just checked. No, I did not! So. I went to an anime con, briefly met a hieronymousmosh who was in the city for Unrelated Reasons (probably she's a spy), and got to hang out with the much missed watchersprout for an entire weekend.
Also, I hung out with watchersprout's boyfriend (aka a con guest and therefore the reason she was at this particular con), another of her friends from up here, and occasional assorted others who were mostly accompanying the other guests. I dressed as a comic book character and went mostly to the 18 years + panels and learned some dirty ASL. (Also, props to the convention for providing ASL interpreters, even if the poor boy-type one was completely embarrassed by the language at the roast and repeatedly had to tag out with the others.) And I bought a cool-seeming card game, if I can ever get friends into the same physical space to play it.
This weekend, I'm going to an itty-bitty new local comic con, followed by a Meet Up event. I signed up for Meet Up awhile back but have yet to actually... meet with anyone. Partly because my schedule is terrible for planning things, but also because new people are terrifying. But I'm going to this one. *strong face*
I read Ancillary Justice, and it's as good as you've heard. If you like spaceships, unique characters, betrayal and quests for vengeance, and/or interesting social construction of gender, you should check it out.
I'm now reading Aurorarama, and it's not so great. I don't like the main POV characters and there's too much going on with the steampunk-ish setting. Which, actually, is my complaint with most of the steampunk I've read - too many concepts stacked on top of each other until plot and character vanish below the waves. Although at least this one doesn't seem likely to introduce aliens two thirds of the way through. Still not sure if there's time travel going on or not. Which you would think would be obvious, but sadly not.
Also, I have little to no interest in fictional drug use/abuse. And there's a lot of it in this book. Blargh.
Anyway. Back to writing. What's new with you?
The Dreamwidth version of this entry currently has
comments.