I'm polishing like mad, and I may have mentioned, found out that there's been some very recent and very good work on contemporary werewolves.  It's been enough to make me consider tossing in the towel, and that's been very discouraging.  The Lupin and werewolf talks have been very personal and very close to my heart in a way that my regular ( Read more... )

I just got a picture of my little niece and a friend of hers wearing Harry Potter glasses.  The next generation rocks on.  She and my nephew got Owl Post postcards from Hogsmeade and they were so happy that my nephew wore his robe all day with the hood pulled up.  My sister snapped a picture of him that she called "Death Eats Breakfast."  It would ( Read more... )

 I had a paper accepted at the Blackfriars conference, and now I have to decide if I'm going to go.  With the furloughs, money is going to be tight this year, and I also have to figure that there may not be any travel funding at all.  Conferences are expensive, but usually I apply for a travel grant and a special Mini-Grant and if I'm lucky, it ( Read more... )