stuck at computer with cat on lap
So I may as well blog.
It's Sunday morning and the kids have had friends for a sleepover, Steve has headed out to teach in London. I have uni work to do today but the cat has just come in and is on my lap acting like he hasn't seen me in ten years.
I've just downloaded some new software for my website. I've had several ridiculous problems when I've tried to update it, so it's remained in the same sorry state for a long time. Rather than try to fix the site I've got, I'm just going to put up a new one sometime in the next few weeks. I'm going to have an integrated blog and I expect I'll get rid of my paid LJ account at that point and just keep this journal for checking on friends.
In a couple of weeks I'll be at World Fantasy Con, but only for the Friday afternoon. Steve has work that weekend, so I'm driving down on the Friday and coming back same day. Not looking forward to all the driving, but I'm really glad I'll be seeing friends there. I'm on two panels:'The End is Now' at 2 pm and 'Do Awards Really Matter?' at 5 pm. I don't know the other participants yet, but I'll try and update this when I find out more.
Sadly, I won't be able to manage Bristolcon this year. It's really too bad, but not a lot I can do. Every time I go to a con on a weekend, Steve has to stay home with the kids. Weekends are his best chance at earning money, so I have to ration my Saturdays and Sundays carefully.
I've started 'The Quantum World'. So far, so good! It's challenging, for sure. But my math skills are improving all the time and I'm hoping it will just be a case of going over the material again and again until it sinks in. I'm also re-doing the big physics course from last year, because I never took the exam. I've forgotten half the stuff! Entropy, entropy--or was it 'Infamy, infamy!'
Writing-wise, I'm still doing the new SF novel. I have a wall covered with big pieces of paper with sticky notes all over them showing relationships and sequence. And I have a GIGANTIC file of material that doesn't fit the structure. I've just gone right back to the beginning and I'm working through it on a different tack. Yet again, I have had to cut a lot of really good stuff, which feels like a test of character.
I'm like: Sullivan, you are really brave for cutting stuff that doesn't fit the developing story logic, but you do realise you're going to have to write something better than what you had to replace it?
To which I respond:
It's Sunday morning and the kids have had friends for a sleepover, Steve has headed out to teach in London. I have uni work to do today but the cat has just come in and is on my lap acting like he hasn't seen me in ten years.
I've just downloaded some new software for my website. I've had several ridiculous problems when I've tried to update it, so it's remained in the same sorry state for a long time. Rather than try to fix the site I've got, I'm just going to put up a new one sometime in the next few weeks. I'm going to have an integrated blog and I expect I'll get rid of my paid LJ account at that point and just keep this journal for checking on friends.
In a couple of weeks I'll be at World Fantasy Con, but only for the Friday afternoon. Steve has work that weekend, so I'm driving down on the Friday and coming back same day. Not looking forward to all the driving, but I'm really glad I'll be seeing friends there. I'm on two panels:'The End is Now' at 2 pm and 'Do Awards Really Matter?' at 5 pm. I don't know the other participants yet, but I'll try and update this when I find out more.
Sadly, I won't be able to manage Bristolcon this year. It's really too bad, but not a lot I can do. Every time I go to a con on a weekend, Steve has to stay home with the kids. Weekends are his best chance at earning money, so I have to ration my Saturdays and Sundays carefully.
I've started 'The Quantum World'. So far, so good! It's challenging, for sure. But my math skills are improving all the time and I'm hoping it will just be a case of going over the material again and again until it sinks in. I'm also re-doing the big physics course from last year, because I never took the exam. I've forgotten half the stuff! Entropy, entropy--or was it 'Infamy, infamy!'
Writing-wise, I'm still doing the new SF novel. I have a wall covered with big pieces of paper with sticky notes all over them showing relationships and sequence. And I have a GIGANTIC file of material that doesn't fit the structure. I've just gone right back to the beginning and I'm working through it on a different tack. Yet again, I have had to cut a lot of really good stuff, which feels like a test of character.
I'm like: Sullivan, you are really brave for cutting stuff that doesn't fit the developing story logic, but you do realise you're going to have to write something better than what you had to replace it?
To which I respond:
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