Well, my first month here in Oakland has certainly been an adventurous one! I have no idea how I did it, but I've managed to somehow scrape my rent together, and sent off the rent check on time! Yay... is how many wonderful gifts and freebies that are sent my way. I received two of these , and I can't wait to try them out! Maybe the magical qualities in them will help with luck and good fortune!
For anybody who's in or around Dublin and hadn't noticed, tomorrow at 7 pm Neil Gaiman will be at Easons signing books. I'm going to miss it because it's during my ISL class, and I'm going to miss enough classes as it is this year, but in case someone else is interested...
I wrote some while back about a book I'm reviewing (note that's friends locked) - and I read a few more chapters tonight between coffee with brisingamen and the start of Brideshead Revisited...fit in a list of non-academic critics? New Maps of Hell was delivered at sodding Princeton. Unfortunately, I suspect this chapter is written by a grad student. I'm not sure how honest I should be
So I haven't posted in far too long. My bad. Well, I have but they are private entries. :) Sorry. Anyway, I discovered a cool new social media site - along the lifestreaming vein - that I am into and...often on iPhone these days so can post a photo or entry on a whim. Love it. Yesterday was in the 80s and now I can not even see out my window, the fog is so thick. Ah, San Francisco in October. :
It's official. Yesterday was absolutely fabulous! Without a doubt, the best day I've had since moving here. It was one of those days where everything just seems to fall into place exactly as you hope... and having all of that has been just fabulous! So, yes, things are on an upswing. I'm still not sure how it will all come together, but parts of the picture are getting colored in, and its thrilling!
My new LJ friend Gene Stewart at tetar.livejournal.com: "[A]bout the space program, and our missed chance in sf to debunk the status quo, have you not noticed how hard sf is a bastion of right wing thought in what is largely a centrist and left wing literature? Of course hard sf never debunked; it's made of unexamined truisms and received wisdom engineered by the military-industrial complex. In India...
I am reading Daughters of Elysium , a loose sequel to A Door into Ocean (in that it takes place in the same world, but some centuries later). There are many, many cool things about this book. Black...I went, "OMG IT'S THE REPUBLIC!" *dies* Now that I have read a version of The Republic in which Socrates is played by a bald purple lesbian pacifist from an all-female society, my life is complete
(A friend/fellow scribe wrote me yesterday asking about my rationale for using present tense in MIRRORED HEAVENS, as well as whether I had any advice on problems one might encounter in so doing. Some...actually happened.
http://www.nla.gov.au/events/history/papers/Greg_Dening.html
hope that helps. . .
djw
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