Sarah Monette's Blog, page 60

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Dear Milwaukee Art Museum:

While I very much enjoyed your exhibit, American Quilts: Selections from the Winterthur Collectcion, and was impressed by the excellence of the quilts, there was one thing that gave me pause.

The quilts in the exhibit were from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (1760-1850), and they were, of course, made by women. I said to my husband, "This is the most women's names you will ever see in a museum exhibit," and that was something I particularly appreciated: seein...

GoH in 2011 (!)

So it appears that I will have two Guest of Honor gigs (which will be, respectively, my first and second GoH gigs ever) in 2011:

Odyssey Con 2011 (Madison, Wisconsin, April 8-10) along with J. V. Jones and Robin D. Laws
LepreCon 37 (Tempe, Arizona, May 6-8) with Elizabeth Bear ( matociquala ); LepreCon 37 is planning ShadowCon 1, a con-within-a-con focusing on Shadow Unit


Need it be said that I am thrilled, geeked, and very grateful?

Project Valkyrie: waterlog

LAPS: 34
YARDS: 1700
MILES: 0.97
TOTAL MILES: 282.76
MILES LEFT TO RIVENDELL: 175.24
NOTES: (1) When one is walking into the locker room at the pool is a sub-optimal time for a hair elastic to break.
(2) Still can't do a kick-turn to save my proverbial life.
(3) I seem to have left my swimming cap in the locker room. Botheration.


Today I managed a total of ten continuous laps of freestyle (6 in the middle and four at the end), by which I mean laps of freestyle without having to hang on the side of th...

Project Valkyrie: waterlog

LAPS: 30
YARDS: 1500
MILES: 0.85
TOTAL MILES: 281.79
MILES TO RIVENDELL: 176.21
NOTES: If you do a load of cat blankets and towels, you may find the next day that rather than removing moisture from your body with your newly laundered towel, you are merely applying cat hair.

Tell me something good?

Tell me something good?

Well, that was horrible.

I took the FFJN (Formerly Feral Jellicle Ninjas) to the vet today. This is always an ordeal, because they are utterly and completely terrified of the vet's office and the vet techs and the vet herself. I don't know whether this is because of their feral kittenhood, because I did a crap job socializing them, or because in their transition from feral to house cats, they got carted off to places like PetSmart for adoption fairs. (The first time we ever saw them was in a PetSmart: tiny terrified ...

writing is/as process

I'm working on a Booth story called "Thirdhop Scarp." (First line: The current owner of Thirdhop Scarp claims that the name is a contraction of "third hope," but this is etymologically dubious in the extreme; still improbable but far more likely is the local explanation: that if you fall off the escarpment, you reach the bottom in three hops.) I've been working on this one for a long time (at least four years) and I'm not done yet, but it occurred to me that it might be worth making a post ab...

Project Valkyrie: waterlog

LAPS: 34
YARDS: 1700
MILES: 0.96
TOTAL MILES: 280.94
MILES LEFT TO RIVENDELL: 177.06
NOTES: The majority of today was spent with the pull-buoy.

Life with cats, It's All Your Fault! division

Catzilla is a young cat (four this summer), and like young cats everywhere, he occasionally gets a fit of the Mad Kitty Dashes. (Although, we should note for the record, this is an occupational hazard not limited to young cats. The Elder Saucepan, who is fifteen, just came gallumphing through the dining room like a crazed wombat.) Last night, as I was doing my rounds prior to going to bed, Catzilla was seized by the Mad Kitty Dashes and launched himself: from the front hall! through the livin...

I WIll Survive: Dancing Auschwitz

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

(Part 1 is the part that's been getting all the buzz: a Holocaust survivor, his daughter, and his grandchildren dancing to "I Will Survive" at Auschwitz and other Holocaust sites. But I wanted to point out that, utterly marvelous as it is, it's only part of Jane Korman's I Will Survive: Dancing Auschwitz installation.)