Sometimes it's better when you're saying the wrong thing
I am home from Arisia. I'll lobby-con tomorrow if I have the energy, but I am done with my programming. All of it was fun and as far as I can tell it all went well, although I especially enjoyed the memorial for Le Guin, the Yiddish singing, and the Tolkien. I wound up reading new fiction mixed with selections from a borrowed e-book of Forget the Sleepless Shores, since I had sold all the print copies I'd brought with me. The Boston Park Plaza has its problems as a con hotel, but I must say I enjoyed being able to walk two blocks and find restaurants instead of wasteland. The hanging out with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ashnistrike, choco_frosh, nineweaving, awhyzip, and some people not on Dreamwidth was very good.
Against all my expectations, my first-generation Sacagawea gold dollar coin has returned to me. It was in the outer back pocket of my computer bag where I don't keep anything. I think it must have slipped out of my coat pocket and into the computer bag. I found it when I was looking for last-ditch cough drops. There it was, brass-gold and a little tarnished, with the familiar face glancing over her shoulder, from 2000. I am keeping it now in an inside pocket of my leather jacket which snaps shut. I don't think I can count on being so lucky again.
As if it was charmed by sympathy out of the overcast, the lunar eclipse is just still visible from our front windows, an ice-white brilliant circle with a distinct dark bite. I have been asking the cats which one of them is eating the moon.spatch says it'll be the one that bleps light.
ETA: Despina Durand reviewed Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror (2016) and she says wonderful things about "All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts":
Sonya Taaffe is easily one of the best contemporary writers of Weird fiction. Her work is often heavy with history—not "heavy," as in cumbersome or excessively dense, but "heavy" in the way anything worth holding sits in the hand.
All that and a blood moon and a talisman returned. I am happy.
ashnistrike, choco_frosh, nineweaving, awhyzip, and some people not on Dreamwidth was very good.Against all my expectations, my first-generation Sacagawea gold dollar coin has returned to me. It was in the outer back pocket of my computer bag where I don't keep anything. I think it must have slipped out of my coat pocket and into the computer bag. I found it when I was looking for last-ditch cough drops. There it was, brass-gold and a little tarnished, with the familiar face glancing over her shoulder, from 2000. I am keeping it now in an inside pocket of my leather jacket which snaps shut. I don't think I can count on being so lucky again.
As if it was charmed by sympathy out of the overcast, the lunar eclipse is just still visible from our front windows, an ice-white brilliant circle with a distinct dark bite. I have been asking the cats which one of them is eating the moon.
spatch says it'll be the one that bleps light.ETA: Despina Durand reviewed Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror (2016) and she says wonderful things about "All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts":
Sonya Taaffe is easily one of the best contemporary writers of Weird fiction. Her work is often heavy with history—not "heavy," as in cumbersome or excessively dense, but "heavy" in the way anything worth holding sits in the hand.
All that and a blood moon and a talisman returned. I am happy.
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Oh, this is brilliant news! I'm so happy for you. May you never be parted again.
I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed the con, and got great feedback on your book both there and in the review you've linked.
It was all too obvious when I went to bed that no-one in my part of the UK would be seeing the lunar eclipse due to cloud cover, so I slept blissfully through it and that was fine.
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Okay, that's unfair.
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Thank you!
I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed the con, and got great feedback on your book both there and in the review you've linked.
It was a really nice con. I wasn't sure if I was going to come out the other side of it completely flattened, and I was for about a day and a half, but it was honestly just a very good time.
It was all too obvious when I went to bed that no-one in my part of the UK would be seeing the lunar eclipse due to cloud cover, so I slept blissfully through it and that was fine.
That's fair! We had freezing rain and overcast all day, but then it cleared abruptly with nightfall and we gave the eclipse-viewing a shot and it did not require anything more dramatic than looking out a window or once going out into the street.