That was a good Wiscon for me even if a) I would have liked to have been on more panels, but the topics/timing didn't work out for me b) I wish I had been sleeping just a little longer in the mornings and not waking up quite so early.
Also I wish that, although I did do better on the seeing people and having meals with them front than some times, I ( Read more... )

Was exhausted yestereen and skipped out and went beddybyes after the GoH speeches and the Tiptree Award Ceremony.
Got up somewhat early this morning in order to get to the panel 'What happened to the Women SF Writers', which, in spite of the somewhat depressing topic and the fact that it was Monday morning and the last panel session of the con, was ( Read more... )

Between now and midnight tomorrow, Elise is having a sale. She has asked those of us who have favorite or particularly inspiring shinies to talk a bit about them.
I am acquiring quite the collection of
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Since this appears to be A Thing across my rlist: When you see this, make a post in your journal or in a community. It can be anything: a crosspost something you've posted on Tumblr, a few words about the last thing you read/watched, or just a "Hi, how is everyone?" Then go read your f-list and leave at least one comment.

And while people may well ( Read more... )

That end of year list meme.
( In case you don't want to read a long list, much of which goes 'n/a' )

Was wondering, following slemslempike's lead, about outfit blogging.

However, there are really not many ways of permutating the look of an archivist d'un certain age.

There is the bog-standard autumnal archivist d'un certain age look (trousers, shirt, some kind of jumper).

There is the 'totally rockin' my extra in the Gateways Club scene of The Killing of ( Read more... )

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So the plan this morning was not to hike around wet streets in it, but to make good speed to various museums/galleries/churches where we could appreciate stuff under cover. We passed several groups who had clearly signed up for walking tours huddling in damp clusters being rained on and educated by their guides.

Our plan was largely thwarted by ( Read more... )

Panels participated in: 3. Two v lively, one where I realised I should probably have done a spot of re-reading prior to participating once we had actually started, but I wasn't sure going in how much we would be talking about the specific books rather than the process.

Academic strand paper given: 1. With reasonable, I thought, success.

Food eaten ( Read more... )

I've wandered around the peripheries and mentioned particular places, but I don't think I've really done Covent Garden yet. I don't think I ever visited it during its fruit, veg and flowers heyday, before these activities moved south of the river to Nine Elms.

However, people are still selling things there, from branches of numerous chains in the ( Read more... )