Do I have any UC Davis / Sacramento peeps? Kevin was planning to take Kavi to tour, but is ill, so I am subbing in. Flying out this evening, returning Sunday. No specific requests — just wondering if I know anyone in the area…
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Publishing question — I’ve had a request from a small literary press to reprint an essay of mine; they asked what my licensing fee would be, and notes that “We are hoping that the lifetime print run of the collection will be 4000 copies in total.” I haven’t done this kind of thing before —
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Things that are hard: 1) My wrist is messed up again, so it’s been in stabbing pain for much of the day, which is very distracting, and limits typing ability, and limits gardening, and limits cooking, and limits crafting. This sentence hurt to type, despite Advil and a brace. 2) Discussing local politics, which has
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Simple, delicious breakfast by Rathy Aunty -/ green chili and onion omelette, red rice pittu, sweet milky tea.
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While in New Britain last week, we stopped at the museum across the street from my dad’s office. $20 ($10 for ages 6-17) and an hour or so to stroll through — well worth it. They were having an exhibit of American impressionists (Kavi and I are both Monet fans, so we thought that would
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I had the privilege of interviewing Andy Duncan at ICFA this past weekend; we talked for almost two hours about voice and historical research and folklore and journalism and a working class Southern background, and much more. It’ll take us about a month to get the full interview edited and up, along with our Deep
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I spent most of ICFA talking to old friends, making new friends, reading by the pool, and trying to relax. I think I managed to crank my ambient stress down a notch or two. I was mostly not watching the news, but I did end up talking a fair bit with other academics impacted by
If I understand karaoke right (I’ve only tried it a few times), it’s partly about bonding through shared humiliation. So here’s a bit of that from tonight — this song picked because it’s my sister Mirna’s birthday today, and she and I used to sing this in the car on long road trips, and I
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Query — there’s a small project I’m considering adding at the SLF, which would be helping established SF/F writers put together updated web pages. I’m noting that a lot of those writers who were in the first wave of the internet have extremely basic pages, often full of broken links. I’m considering offering a small
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3 more hours into the day: finished reading a book, basked in the sunshine (need that vitamin d!), went for a swim (chilly getting in, but fine once I got moving), started reading the sequel, ordered tuna poke and passion fruit daiquiri. Also took ten minutes to scan through old voicemails and delete all the
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