I survived the wedding. Though my ailment seems to be coalescing, hence the title.

The truth was that it was a nice, if by the book, sort of event, the ceremony was brief, the party didn’t drag on, and it was a pretty small gathering.

I still hate weddings. And I developed a number of principals for better weddings:

1. If you can’t combine the ( Read more... )

So I was having a discussion with an old writing friend and we were discussing our futures which are both pretty much in the air.

She consoled by saying something like; “well some time off to get some grounding will probably help you more than sitting in rooms and talking about dead authors,” clearly misremembering that aspirations to publish ( Read more... )

I was listening to FLOSS Weekly this week as I was running about, and there was a bit in one of the episodes about leadership and organization of open source projects.

Not being much of a programer at all-but being very interested in, for lack of a better term, the anthropology 1 of open source projects-this sparked a larger interest. Lets back up ( Read more... )

I didn’t get in to graduate school this time.

Feh.

I’m going to start putting out feelers for another try, but maybe not next year I need a break from this applying thing, and I don’t want to be beating a dead horse or anything. And looking for (another) job. I’m good income wise until the end of august, if need be, but I think it would be good ( Read more... )

Perhaps no news is good news? After the bulk of a week in one kind of a haze or another, I’m just working on getting on with my life, at least for the present. I’m going to be spinning a lot in the future, no matter if I get into graduate school or not. I’m going to be knitting and writing knitting patterns. There are the 14 sweaters to knit. I’m ( Read more... )

I just got an email from my prospective advisor at the school I’m on the wait-list for today.

Days on the waitlist: 26-ish (One week and 2 days till, the rough end).

Anyway, apparently the department sent out rejections a few days ago, and I got sent one except it was in error

I have not been rejected.

(Yet.)

The interesting bits of ( Read more... )

I mentioned in my last post that I took a break from writing to look at the academic/research software on the apple website. I opened a bunch of tabs (I’m looking for qualitative data analysis tools and the like,) and I found a few things that were pretty interesting, opened some tabs on the promise that I’d get back to evaluate these pieces of ( Read more... )

So I’m trying really hard to get back into the novel I’ve been working on, off and on for a few months. I’m not really “getting into it,” and I’m just not into it. While I’ve spent a lot of time developing it and a bit of time working on it, it’s been a morning and afternoon here and there. I’d like for something to happen with this project, but I ( Read more... )

I’m sure I’ve ranted about this r/evolution debate in the past, but this post about Bruce Sterling’s new novella in F&SF fired up my feelings on the subject, so here it goes.

First off, let me establish that I’m going to use the term evolution in an explicitly non-technical sense. I’m often annoyed that any sort of gradual change or adapatation ( Read more... )

I had a lengthy conversation with a prospective graduate school advisor.

It went well.

Because I’ve been chewing over the same handful of ideas in the last few weeks about the parts of queer identity, I’ve become really comfortable with what’s been said in the field, and what my opinion is on all the key debates are. So this attitude which could ( Read more... )