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Am I Here, Yet?
Ok, so I'm techno-challenged. Let's see if THIS lands in the "introductions" thread.
Hi. I'm Peg Robinson, slightly published member of SFWA (some SF, some fantasy, all short to date). Joined back in something like '99. Not active much. Hoping with others that this is going to be a Jubilee year of change and life for SFWA, so I'm trying to find my way to a point where being an "active" member of SFWA means more than just that I earned my precious wee brownie points and can get to vote for stuff now.
I consider myself a professional-writing newbie, and a decided newbie to SFWA AND SF/F fandom: I read more than I write, write more than I chum around in fandom, and chum around in fandom slightly more than I attend cons. Since I can count my cons on one hand still, that should be indicative of my stacking-priorities. I'm decidedly an LJ newbie: just got my account the other night, and only then with the help of my 14 year old daughter. I'm only graduating from college with a BA at the end of this summer, so I'm "young" there, too.
On the other hand I'm an "oldie" in a lot of ways. I turn 49 today. I've been married for over 22 years, and trying to finalize a divorce for over 2 years. I remember when TV was black and white, and can even just barely remember when TV was novel...though that's a memory mingled with learning to tie shoe-strings by sending Mr. Bunnie down into his hole on one side of the tree, and out the other, and, look, here he is, head-and-all! I remember when Star Trek first aired, but I had to sneak out of bed and hide behind my father's armchair to watch it because I was supposed to be asleep. I remember buying lots of first-edition Asimov, but Left Hand of Darkness was already considered a "Classic" before I read it. I find cell phones unexpected and useful, but not extensions of my life-force, and while I adore my PDA and ebooks, I can imagine living without them. I'd be annoyed, but I can imagine it.
Copyright? Left-leaning moderate. Position on epublishing? Love it, wish it would get itself sorted out so I can use it more often.
Other than that -- heck, even that's subject to change. But at least you have an idea of who I am: a middle aged woman in a mixed up environment, dealing with a life and a profession in transition, and hoping to be a friendly and constructive member of the folks taking part in that transition.
Peg
Hi. I'm Peg Robinson, slightly published member of SFWA (some SF, some fantasy, all short to date). Joined back in something like '99. Not active much. Hoping with others that this is going to be a Jubilee year of change and life for SFWA, so I'm trying to find my way to a point where being an "active" member of SFWA means more than just that I earned my precious wee brownie points and can get to vote for stuff now.
I consider myself a professional-writing newbie, and a decided newbie to SFWA AND SF/F fandom: I read more than I write, write more than I chum around in fandom, and chum around in fandom slightly more than I attend cons. Since I can count my cons on one hand still, that should be indicative of my stacking-priorities. I'm decidedly an LJ newbie: just got my account the other night, and only then with the help of my 14 year old daughter. I'm only graduating from college with a BA at the end of this summer, so I'm "young" there, too.
On the other hand I'm an "oldie" in a lot of ways. I turn 49 today. I've been married for over 22 years, and trying to finalize a divorce for over 2 years. I remember when TV was black and white, and can even just barely remember when TV was novel...though that's a memory mingled with learning to tie shoe-strings by sending Mr. Bunnie down into his hole on one side of the tree, and out the other, and, look, here he is, head-and-all! I remember when Star Trek first aired, but I had to sneak out of bed and hide behind my father's armchair to watch it because I was supposed to be asleep. I remember buying lots of first-edition Asimov, but Left Hand of Darkness was already considered a "Classic" before I read it. I find cell phones unexpected and useful, but not extensions of my life-force, and while I adore my PDA and ebooks, I can imagine living without them. I'd be annoyed, but I can imagine it.
Copyright? Left-leaning moderate. Position on epublishing? Love it, wish it would get itself sorted out so I can use it more often.
Other than that -- heck, even that's subject to change. But at least you have an idea of who I am: a middle aged woman in a mixed up environment, dealing with a life and a profession in transition, and hoping to be a friendly and constructive member of the folks taking part in that transition.
Peg