I’ve Missed This
Dinner with lovely friends, oh, I’ve missed this…
Conventions
Hey, folks — here’s my schedule for FogCon next week in Walnut Creek!
Hey, folks — here’s my schedule for FogCon next week in Walnut Creek! I hope to see some of you there: https://fogcon.org Friday: 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM, Salon A/B “Food in Genre Fiction” Inspired by Mary Anne Mohanraj’s latest publication being a cookbook, let’s think about food and its place in genre fiction! In stories
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I fell in love with this fantasy-themed coat
Seattle got much colder than I expected, and by the end of the first day, the light raincoat I’d brought was just not cutting it. I went out to look for a heavier sweater, at least. I didn’t plan to buy a coat, I swear! I’m trying to do something of a buy-nothing January, to
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Seattle, at SALA 2020
Rahul K. Gairola at SALA, with lady with bow and arrow. 
Seattle, and the most intense coffee shop I’ve ever seen. View from the Nest, at Thompson Seattle.
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My gosh, they do feed us well here
At the commencement welcome, one of the conference chairs of SALA made a joke about how we’re going to talk well and eat well. I’m not sure I’m talking all that well (still tired and a little out of it!), but my gosh, they do feed us well here. Breakfast & lunch for two days
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How dedicated am I?
So here is the question — how dedicated am I? I slept poorly last night, and I attended 4 straight hours of readings this evening, from 7 – 11 (two different readings). All of which is fine, but I have a 5 a.m. call scheduled (with various international futurist folks; it’s not a great time
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A massive pile of logistical stuff
Okay. So I had a massive pile of logistical stuff to deal with, like contacting Elliott Bay and Hugo House and Book Larder and Capitol Cider here in Seattle, to see if I can stop by tomorrow and show them Feast and talk about ordering books / events, should I come back to Seattle soon.
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Funny travel / eating moment
Funny travel / eating moment. So yesterday, I was VERY tired, and I really just wanted some spicy Asian comfort food for dinner. Luckily, there was a Vietnamese restaurant with good reviews (Long Provincial) half a block away from my hotel. So I staggered in there, made it to a table, and ordered a dish
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Panel at MLA
This is the panel I’ll be on tomorrow evening at MLA, just fyi. “Sri Lankan American Women and Non-binary Writers: Contemporary Investments and Future Directions” THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY, 7.00 PM-8.15 PM, SKAGIT 4 (Washington State Convention Center) While examining investments in human rights, transgenerational memory, and alternative forms of justice, panelists investigate the current trends
At the Seattle hotel for the SALA / MLA
I got off the plane in Seattle and although the forecast claimed 51F and raining, it is not actually raining, and thus I just wore my cardigan and didn’t pull out my raincoat and let us say that I do occasionally have a twinge of ‘why don’t we live somewhere warm?’ as I get older.
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