sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2008-04-12 12:29 pm

This is just a perpendicular line to the brain

I have not written any novels, so I cannot participate in the meme that is making the rounds of my friendlist (see [livejournal.com profile] matociquala, [livejournal.com profile] stillsostrange). But this is as good a place as any to mention that my oldest real story, "Stone Song," has been accepted by [livejournal.com profile] norilana for her new anthology Sky Whales and Other Wonders, in which I know [livejournal.com profile] time_shark also has a piece. This actually happened while I was in Orlando at the ICFA; it was one of the many wonderful elements of the conference about which I have not yet posted in any substantive way. To make up for this oversight, have a picture of me in a hat.




The hint of fair hair and blue-shirted shoulder on the deck chair behind me is David Swanger. About the same level of identification is possible for Eric Van's knee. Taken by Greer Gilman.



Left to right, I can identify Lila Garrott, Patricia McKillip, Greer Gilman, and Eric Van. Also my hat. Taken by Cheryl Morgan.



This is not my hat. These are Lila's feet. That sounds like a surrealistic lyric. (The hands with the silver ring, however, do belong to me.) Taken by Greer Gilman.

Our third night at the conference, I went downstairs after dinner to look for people. The previous night, there had been roaming and music. But the outdoor pool was almost deserted; other than a cluster of smokers outside the door, all I saw were three raccoons and a possum, which looked up at me from three feet away in the rhododendrons, unimpressed. I don't think they were anyone I knew. But if any of my friends were to have transformed into raccoons or possums, the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts would have been a completely believable place to do it.


Meat pie time!
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[personal profile] seajules 2008-04-24 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Your father clearly has a genius for naming hats. Fitzcarraldo is perfect.

I never used to sunburn, actually.

As a young 'un, I would darken to a color like bark while my hair went nearly white. I was a proper dandelion sprite. As I grew older, I'd burn, then peel and be tan underneath. These days, both hair and skin play lobster.