Stick & Mud Season. (Also My Tolkien at UVM Talk.)

[dawn_felagund]

Before I say ANYTHING about my video or stick and mud season, I want to wish a happy birthday to my friend and fandom partner in crime heartofoshun. I love you as an author and a scholar but most of all as a friend. I appreciate so much all you do for our little corner of the Interwebz and for me personally. Few people in my life have been so unconditionally

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[heartofoshun]

Thank you for saying so many nice things about me! And thank you for the birthday greetings. We had a great day yesterday and a relaxing day today. We were all home (Laura home sick!) and all of us just chilling. I put some pics up of our birthday lunch yesterday. Really a lot of fun.

OMG! I have to listen to your presentation right now!!

[dawn_felagund]

I'm glad you had a good day, although I'm sorry to hear about the sickness! I'd rather Laura and Alex just played hooky with you. ;) I have the notification of your new post in my email; I have some catching up to do tomorrow. (I didn't even get the story list for the Strength & Beauty challenge posted tonight! And you know I almost never shirk fandom chores. I went out kayaking instead; it was such a gorgeous day, and here, that is not guaranteed to last. I half-expect a foot of snow next week.)

[heartofoshun]

The presentation was great. Did you tape the discussion or just can't share it?

The graphics are totally legible.

[dawn_felagund]

I cheated and recorded the audio in my study ... I installed Audacity on my laptop but didn't have room to put it near enough to me that I could have gotten good audio at the conference itself. I know now too that I can bring my video camera next year, assuming that's allowed.

So no discussion--just me! (I never include discussions since I wouldn't feel comfortable with other people being in my recording unless they gave permission.)

ETA ... thanks for the reassurance on the graphics! As soon as I complained about it here, they started showing up fine for me too. I've never had problems with Movie Maker, but my Internet can throw wrenches into the most well-oiled cogs.

[shirebound]

I look forward to listening to your talk. :)

I can imagine how tired your arms must be. I spent a few days canoeing ALL DAY a few years back, and it was HARD.

Hooray and spring, and buds, and green!

[dawn_felagund]

Thanks! ^_^

The husband and I want to do a local canoe trail. I've never done an all-day paddle before, much less multiple days! This one would have been easy--only 1.5 miles!--except for the current. And maybe the fact that I'm a little out of shape ... ;)

[shirebound]

I enjoyed listening to this very much. I've never approached Tolkien's works as a scholar, but rather as a simple and appreciative reader and dreamer, so carefully-researched and -presented pieces of scholarship like this fascinate me. Beautiful job.

[dawn_felagund]

Aww, thank you for listening to it! ^_^ I'm glad you liked it.

I'm the opposite: My education has focused on research, no matter what area it's in, and so it's how I very often respond to what I love. I've been expressing these ideas in fanfic for over a decade now, but it's been a fun change to switch gears to a different type of expression.