Sitting at the airport. Have obtained: goldfish crackers, a coke, Details magazine (!),and cheese curds (IDEFK, but that's what they have here ( Read more... )

So we went exploring a little bit this evening. We found a nice used bookshop, the kind that's several stories of books, most for only a couple dollars each, all higgeldy-piggledy and yon. Lo, and here are my treasures:


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At the hotel, back from dinner, half-retarded from long day. Thus, a picspam:

Milwaukee skyline from our hotel:


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So I finally heard back from some conference people and they are going to figure out a place to put me. YAY. I finishd a draft of my talk today. I don't know if it will get better but I did a practice read and I don't think it sucked too much. Not the best work I've ever done by a long shot, but so it goes.

Got the Wesleyan Anthology of SF in the ( Read more... )

On the van home, listening to Beowulf in OE and writing fic.

Thought I would share, because I'm laughing at myself right now.

Basic air travel needs are a soda, Reese's Pieces, and Harper's Magazine. I can now get through the next few hours with my iPod ( Read more... )

Yeah so the thing about traveling across the International Date Line is it so screws up your sense of time. We basically had two Wednesdays, both of which were very long. Oy. I got to catch up on movies on the plane.

I really liked Waitress even though I didn't get to see the whole thing because the sound was blippy. Nathon Fillion is so very ( Read more... )

First free net access in days--my email was scary. I'll be flying home tomorrow: gulp! Too tired to type much but much more later, I promise!

Yesterday we took it comparatively easy, and slept in for us (by which I mean, 8am. Between time zones and a lack of daylight savings time, we keep getting up at around 5:30am...). We went to another shrine and a nearby flea market. Scott bought a pretty scroll painting we'll get framed back home, and I found a beautiful white embroidered kimono ( Read more... )