sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2018-01-15 10:43 pm

The reasons for living, the freedom of words

I am home from Arisia. I am exhausted. It was good.

My last two panels were group readings, the first poetry and the second fiction; co-panelists included [personal profile] ladymondegreen and [personal profile] nineweaving. Both were great. I may have accepted a commission to write a poem that begins with a choice between a curse and a road ahead. In between I sat in the green room and drank more endless Styrofoam cups of hot water and honey and talked with a former fellow editor at Strange Horizons; afterward I ended up having dinner and lovely conversation at Mamaleh's with [personal profile] ashnistrike and Nineweaving and someone who may or may not have a Dreamwidth handle. It is cold enough out right now that the wind sticks to your face like molten glass, so coming indoors to hot chocolate and my beloved off-menu sandwich (half cold tongue, half chopped liver) was especially welcome. I remember talking about the Summer Street Bridge disaster and U.A. Fanthorpe's "Rising Damp." I brought a 50/50 home for [personal profile] spatch and Hestia made inquiries as to the suitability of corned beef for cats. I am coughing now and still feverish and I never lost my voice.

I have a whole bunch of things to do this week, including prepare for another reading in Providence on Saturday, but right now I think I am going to curl up and do something totally inessential. This weekend went much better than I thought it would.
strange_complex: (Chrestomanci slacking in style)

[personal profile] strange_complex 2018-01-16 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm very glad to hear you had a good time, and made it to the end without losing your voice. Enjoy your well-earned curling!