I haven’t integrated my conclusion chapter into the full manuscript file, because it isn’t finished yet. And I know that I have some work to do on the fourth chapter, and I’m sure the people on my committee will have a lot of revision suggestions, and I know that the next few weeks are [...]
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Posted in academic | 9 Comments »>There are days when everything works, when all the little clockwork cogs and gears of the daily routine come together in perfect rhythm.
And then there are days when somewhere around one in the afternoon you realize that you’re spacy and you have a splitting headache, and then shortly after you realize that all you’ve eaten [...]
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Posted in personal | 1 Comment »>Every year I have the same experience with WisCon programming. I read through the options, I sign up for things, and then when I find out what panels I’m on, I have a vague befuddled feeling. Something on the lines of “huh, really? I signed up for this?” (This is not [...]
Posted in personal, science fiction | 4 Comments »>I continue to be a little disoriented by the fact that I’m almost done. I’ve got a dissertation checklist, a list of discrete tasks that need to be completed, some of them between now and the first of May, some of them between the first and nineteenth. (1 May is when I’m giving [...]
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Posted in academic, personal | No Comments »>Last night, talking to Matt about some detail related to my graduation ceremony, I had to pause and point out the obvious. “This is all assuming that California hasn’t washed into the sea by then.”
It’s been raining for, I don’t know, eight thousand years. Or at least since January. Some days it’s sunny [...]
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Posted in personal | No Comments »>The Fun Part
Last week, I took care of one of my all-time favorite editorial tasks at Strange Horizons. I finished tabulating the results of the Readers’ Choice Awards and notified all the winners. (I also wrote out all of their prize checks in shiny purple ink, thinking that it would add an extra [...]
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Posted in science fiction | No Comments »>When I started taking yoga classes at Berkeley (far from my first foray into yoga, but the first to hold my attention for more than a month or two), my friend Ellen came with me. Twice a week we’d meet at the Rec Sports Facility in the morning, go to the morning Beginner Yoga [...]
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