Hey all! It’s almost time for Norwescon again. Whee. I’m on quite a lot of programming this year, so if you want to come see me, there are ample opportunities. (Also if you are going to be at the con and want to get dinner/lunch/drinks/whatever with me, I strongly recommend messaging me ahead of time. I will have access to email and etc through my ( Read more... )

Well, I had a few short stories come out this year, and I went to some conventions. I’m still more-or-less employed, still more-or-less carrying my Clarion debt, and still haven’t gone surgeon hunting because a) not enough money b) the plan was to lose weight first… welp.

I managed to acquire more books than I read, again. (Which was less of a ( Read more... )

Another post of some writer talking about art in general is probably the last thing that the world needs, but that has never kept anyone from writing a blog post before, and it sure as fuck isn’t going to stop me now.

You’d think that after spending most of my late teens and all of my adult life hanging around other artists and writers that I’d be ( Read more... )

So, what’s been going on for the past few months? (Besides Twitter. Twitter is always going on.)

WRITING

Despite classes, general disgruntlement with my abilities, and every procrastination technique known to the modern writer, I finished what I tentatively called “a draft” of my novel. It was the first time I’ve slapped THE FUCKING END on a novel ( Read more... )

Well. Here we are.

At first, I wanted to say something like:

"I'm not the same person I was ten years ago."

But that's not true. I'm not the same person I thought I was ten years ago. The distinction is entirely important ( Read more... )

First off, my Zune started working again yesterday. It seems to have suffered no ill effects of traveling one day ahead in time, thus skipping that pesky leap day ( Read more... )

REALLY GOOD! REALLY BAD! D ( Read more... )

Luckily, I got some news on something I was expecting to hear back on yesterday, so I don't have to worry about that coming while I'm in the media wasteland that is south-western Washington ( Read more... )

I turned in my last graded quantum mechanics assignment today. Which means, basically, that I only have the final between myself and being free of quantum mechanics until graduate school, assuming that a graduate school wants me enough to pay me for the privilege of my company.

Well, that would be the case except that our amazing department chair ( Read more... )

I was going to say something typically HIGH-larious about the state of my mind ( Read more... )