Busy Weekend
We had a pretty busy weekend. St. Michael's, the small private school that a friend teaches art at, was having another "make enough money to keep the school open" garage sale (the school is pretty vital for students who need special attention, have special needs, or who can't speak English. Plus students who just want a curriculum that includes everything from Latin and Greek to competing in robot-building contests.) So we donated our old and far too huge TV cabinet. Two very nice men from the school came to get it, looked at it, went away and came back with a third nice man and a furniture-moving dolly, and they got it out of there. I just hope they sold it.
This opened up a whole third of our living room which we hadn't seen in more than ten years. It feels like the living room grew a pseudopod. We had the cabinet for years and really liked it, but now I feel like that was Stockholm Syndrome. The tiny cheap cabinet we had ordered to replace it got delivered unexpectedly on Saturday morning, so we spent some time getting it put together and rearranging everything.
Then we went to a large Thanksgiving party that friends in town have been having every year for about twenty-six years. It sort of grew out of the SF/F club associated with the university (which has been around for longer than that) but the party has now taken on a life of it's own, with the grown kids of the original group showing up.
Woke up to rain this morning. That hasn't happened in a long time. When I first moved here, it started to rain in Fall and didn't stop till summer.
MSNBC Depleted Texas lakes expose ghost towns, graves
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Writer and editor Cat Rambo is offering an online workshop
As both a writer and editor, I bring a focus that lets me advise you from both sides of the desk. My experience as the fiction editor of award-winning Fantasy Magazine as well as short story collections and anthologies combined with the fact that I'm a working, selling writer helps me provide you with solid, up-to-date market advice for both online and print publishing. My teaching experience includes the Johns Hopkins University, Towson State University, and Bellevue College and I've studied with John Barth, Stephen Dixon, Octavia Butler, and Connie Willis, to name just a couple of people I've had the pleasure of learning from.
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ETA: GuysLitWire: is doing another Book Fair for Ballou High School
Book Fair for Ballou High School
GLW is partnering up again with school librarian Melissa Jackson to get some more books to Ballou. While the year began with less than one book for each student in the Ballou library (the American Library Association advises a minimum of eleven books per student), after our successful spring book fair and the publicity that surrounded it and Melissa's own efforts, Ballou now has four books for each student which is a huge improvement. But, improving is not enough, we want to hit and then exceed the ALA minimum and so we are going to shamelessly take advantage of everyone's holiday joy and gift-giving mood this time of year and hopefully add to the stacks at Ballou with this smaller, but no less enjoyable book fair.
I love book fairs! The post includes the link to the high school library's wish list at Powell's online bookstore, plus the address to ship the books to.
This opened up a whole third of our living room which we hadn't seen in more than ten years. It feels like the living room grew a pseudopod. We had the cabinet for years and really liked it, but now I feel like that was Stockholm Syndrome. The tiny cheap cabinet we had ordered to replace it got delivered unexpectedly on Saturday morning, so we spent some time getting it put together and rearranging everything.
Then we went to a large Thanksgiving party that friends in town have been having every year for about twenty-six years. It sort of grew out of the SF/F club associated with the university (which has been around for longer than that) but the party has now taken on a life of it's own, with the grown kids of the original group showing up.
Woke up to rain this morning. That hasn't happened in a long time. When I first moved here, it started to rain in Fall and didn't stop till summer.
MSNBC Depleted Texas lakes expose ghost towns, graves
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Cracked.com Five Old-timey Prejudices That Still Show Up in Every Movie
Malinda Lo: YA Heroines Outside the Straight White Box
***
Writer and editor Cat Rambo is offering an online workshop
As both a writer and editor, I bring a focus that lets me advise you from both sides of the desk. My experience as the fiction editor of award-winning Fantasy Magazine as well as short story collections and anthologies combined with the fact that I'm a working, selling writer helps me provide you with solid, up-to-date market advice for both online and print publishing. My teaching experience includes the Johns Hopkins University, Towson State University, and Bellevue College and I've studied with John Barth, Stephen Dixon, Octavia Butler, and Connie Willis, to name just a couple of people I've had the pleasure of learning from.
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ETA: GuysLitWire: is doing another Book Fair for Ballou High School
Book Fair for Ballou High School
GLW is partnering up again with school librarian Melissa Jackson to get some more books to Ballou. While the year began with less than one book for each student in the Ballou library (the American Library Association advises a minimum of eleven books per student), after our successful spring book fair and the publicity that surrounded it and Melissa's own efforts, Ballou now has four books for each student which is a huge improvement. But, improving is not enough, we want to hit and then exceed the ALA minimum and so we are going to shamelessly take advantage of everyone's holiday joy and gift-giving mood this time of year and hopefully add to the stacks at Ballou with this smaller, but no less enjoyable book fair.
I love book fairs! The post includes the link to the high school library's wish list at Powell's online bookstore, plus the address to ship the books to.
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