Done is done
Panic is sitting down with 1.5 hours to work on your grant application and realizing it says it’s due at 5 p.m. EST when you live in Chicago. It’s in, and not terrible, but oh, I could’ve used that extra hour! Oh well. Done is done.
Serendib Writing
Answering interview questions about the history of queer SFF
I just spent an hour answering some interview questions about the history of queer SFF, answer as a writer, editor, teacher, and arts administrator. I’m looking forward to reading the final round-table discussion. (I mean, not really a round-table, since we’re not responding directly to each other, but a set of responses, at any rate.)
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Futurist conference postponed until fall
Unfortunately, the international futurist conference (U+, Plurality University, along with the Many Worlds Festival) I was planning to attend in Amsterdam in April (funded, sigh) has been postponed to the fall, due to the coronavirus crisis; many attendees from Asia have had to cancel, due to travel restrictions. Very tough for the conference organizers. 🙁
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On ADD, anxiety, decision trees, and an abundance of projects
On ADD, anxiety, decision trees, and an abundance of projects (book and otherwise). So a few years ago, I was talking to Benjamin Rosenbaum, about all my various book projects and story projects and poem projects and he basically said that multitasking was a big lie, that I couldn’t actually work on all of those at
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A commentary on “The Privilege of Rage” by tangerinejones
As a note, this is all new to me; I’m pretty sure I hadn’t heard the term ‘rage baking’ in any context until a few weeks ago. But despite the fact that I cook a lot and think about cooking a lot, there are lots of food spaces that I haven’t spent time in, and
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Solidly happy
Kev and I mostly haven’t done Valentine’s Day gifts, in part because he was sort of anti-Valentine’s Day for a long time, and then there was the long stretch where we were breaking up and getting back together and everything was terribly confusing and often miserable and definitely not romantic. I had some rough Valentine’s
A nice end to what started as a hard day.
Signing a contract tonight for an interesting project that I can’t talk about for a year, which is really not the sort of thing I normally do. Secrets — not my thing! But this is for a good cause, so will do. I’m going to try to mostly forget about it! It does come with
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I’ve been going through old photos
For a semi-sekrit project, I’ve been going through old photos; I’ll probably be posting them occasionally. – in Sri Lanka, my mom and various relatives; I’m in the green dress near the center – my parents, not long after coming to the U.S. (1975) – me, 7 years old, first holy Communion – me, maybe
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I tried something new last night
So, I tried something new last night — I put my laptop in my office at 9 p.m., and didn’t go to get it until 9 a.m. today. I read for an hour and a half before sleep (in the bath, in bed), and when I woke up this morning, I read some more (along
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The food we ate along the way
A few days ago I was talking with a writer friend about cooking. She wanted to write a cookbook of her family’s recipes, but was frustrated that her mother hadn’t taught her to cook. My mom actually barely taught me how to cook; she would say “Just watch,” when I asked. She had me chop
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