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Oct. 11th, 2004 08:56 pmSorry if I've fallen silent here the last couple of days. Just not much to say, really.
Saturday D. and I went out to the National Book Festival. Due to late start/delays on Metro, we only caught the last 10 minutes of Neil Gaiman's talk. It was as interesting to see him "live" (albeit from far away - rather scruffy and quite funny) as it was to see the fans - a huge crowd that clapped and cheered enthusiastically when he finished up :)
We hadn't planned to get anything signed, and I'm glad of this - seeing the length of the line (while looking for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
geekchick was a strong deterrent :P
We also sat in on Lynn McMasters Bujold's talk and caught part of Cokie Roberts. Both of us managed to resist the improvised bookstore and just enjoyed walking in the near-perfect fall weather :) I'm glad I got D. out of the house, if only for a couple of hours.
The last two days have been mostly reading and doing laundry. The former: started Gumshoe Gorilla (enjoying it muchly! I love the futuristic Atlanta run by fundamentalist Baptists mired in scandal and the attempts of the Cherokee nation to get the northern half of GA back) and started/completed The Fourth Horseman (several years out of date, but offers a "holistic" perspective of epidemics that I don't often see).
The temperature has dropped and my motivation has dropped in time with it. Also, things are just getting on my nerves. No one particular thing - frustration with my writing style of late, my inability to cope socially as I'd like, nothing really new, but is bothering me anyway :/
To my great shock and awe, I actually have work tomorrow (Happy Thanksgiving to Canadians, happy Columbus day [and federal holiday] to those in the States), so I'm thinking my best plan might be to have a cup of chamomile tea to make myself sleepy enough to get back on schedule. Maybe I'll post more about these little irritants later - if they are still irritating me.
Saturday D. and I went out to the National Book Festival. Due to late start/delays on Metro, we only caught the last 10 minutes of Neil Gaiman's talk. It was as interesting to see him "live" (albeit from far away - rather scruffy and quite funny) as it was to see the fans - a huge crowd that clapped and cheered enthusiastically when he finished up :)
We hadn't planned to get anything signed, and I'm glad of this - seeing the length of the line (while looking for
geekchick was a strong deterrent :PWe also sat in on Lynn McMasters Bujold's talk and caught part of Cokie Roberts. Both of us managed to resist the improvised bookstore and just enjoyed walking in the near-perfect fall weather :) I'm glad I got D. out of the house, if only for a couple of hours.
The last two days have been mostly reading and doing laundry. The former: started Gumshoe Gorilla (enjoying it muchly! I love the futuristic Atlanta run by fundamentalist Baptists mired in scandal and the attempts of the Cherokee nation to get the northern half of GA back) and started/completed The Fourth Horseman (several years out of date, but offers a "holistic" perspective of epidemics that I don't often see).
The temperature has dropped and my motivation has dropped in time with it. Also, things are just getting on my nerves. No one particular thing - frustration with my writing style of late, my inability to cope socially as I'd like, nothing really new, but is bothering me anyway :/
To my great shock and awe, I actually have work tomorrow (Happy Thanksgiving to Canadians, happy Columbus day [and federal holiday] to those in the States), so I'm thinking my best plan might be to have a cup of chamomile tea to make myself sleepy enough to get back on schedule. Maybe I'll post more about these little irritants later - if they are still irritating me.
