March 2006

Wow, I’m tired.

Sadly, I qualify this year for a Campbell award for Best New Writer for my short story, Genderbending at the Madhattered. This is sad because 1) I haven’t written a ton of stuff that would showcase my work because I’m bogged down in novels 2) I only have one year left of eligibility for the

Well, yea. That’s why you don’t teach women to read. Or slaves. Or anybody else you want to control. They might realize there’s something else out there. They might start thinking things could be really different.

The regional VP stopped me in the conference room today and said, “Are we losing you? You’ve lost a lot of weight. Are you OK? You don’t want to do anything dangerous.” It still bothers me when people do this. “I’m just lifting weights in the morning,” I said. “I don’t really feel like I’m

Didn’t we break up MaBell because it was a monopoly? So, wouldn’t putting it all back together be rebuilding a monopoly? And, um, be illegal? You know, like banning abortion? Wait, sorry, for a moment there I thought I was living in another country! Like, say, America! I’m moving to Canada. Brendan, how are grad

Gov. Mike Rounds signed legislation Monday banning nearly all abortions in South Dakota, setting up a court fight aimed at challenging the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. The bill would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless the procedure was necessary to save the woman’s life. It would

As someone who writes about a lot of bug-tech ideas, I thought these were neat.

“Everywhere’s a small town if you do something that bothers enough people.” (via Jennifer)

Nailed down the hotel reservations for me and my posse (me, my boyfriend Brendan, Jenn the Great, and my awesome Clarion buddy Patrick of Bioware employ). We’re three blocks from the con hotel, so all together, we may be able to hold each other up while we drunkenly stumble back to the hotel after the