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“He moved smoothly into a defensive defense stance.” This is why I do line edits.

Had my first yoga class last night in a couple weeks – I’ve had to work late at the day job, so I’ve missed it. An hour and a half of yoga is a lot of yoga, and for some reason, the last half of the class was enormously frustrating. I couldn’t get my leg

So, after breaking it off with our respective emotionally exhausting exes, Jenn and I spent some time engaged in conversations that went something like, “If only I could date someone who wasn’t emotionally retarded!” and “If only someone was interested in me who understood my need to write!” and “If only I could date someone

No, I just don’t know when to leave well enough alone. Like some others, I snickered over the Venom Cock hullabaloo and got ready to forget about it – until I read this article by Liz Henry that declared Janine Cross’s book, Touched by Venom to be on par with feminist SF work like Emshwiller’s

heh heh

Earlier this week, a writer friend and I touched on the topic of the infamous Delany Clarion circle. For those not familiar with this ritual, when Sam Delany teaches at Clarion, he has an optional group get-together in which he taps you with his God stick and tells you whether or not he thinks you’ll

I’m on it. Though I don’t expect ya’ll to show up at 9am on a Saturday… Feminist Fiction Is So Five Minutes Ago (Feminism, Sex, and Gender) Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m. Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Lyda A. Morehouse, Rebecca Maines, Kameron Hurley, Susan Marie Groppi The Female Warrior in Science Fiction: Who Does It

Spent Saturday and Sunday watching Baylon 5 and sleeping, sleeping, fighting off my yearly sinus infection, and sleeping some more. My appetite was back on Sunday, which meant the worst had passed. I came home late Friday night after frantically getting everything done at work that I needed to get done and then literally collapsed.

I’m taking some much-needed time off from work next week, so COB today is the start of a 5-day weekend. Thank god. I’m so burned out at this job. The plan is to watch a lot of movies, sleep a lot, read a lot, and start tDW line edits. And not much else. Maybe water

Was going over the Wiscon brochure and discovered this tidbit: Samuel R. Delany to Interview Joanna Russ Unable to attend WisCon because of health problems, Ms. Russ nevertheless wants to participate in WisCon 30: she suggested a telephone interview. How could we refuse? You are all invited to listen when Samuel R. Delany interviews Joanna