Linkage!
I'm going to give a series of links, just because. I used to do link posts all the time, and today I have just two links and am thinking "Why haven't I done this in so long?"
First the Lanagan interview. It's here. Cristian Tamas sorted my style errors for the site, for which we should all be truly grateful. I have a great desire to thank him in person, which leads me to my next link, which is self-explanatory (and besides, all of you who are interested or eligible have probably already acted on it) : the GUFF race.
Now for a couple of my favourite websites. The UK Institute of Historical Research offers online courses on some very interesting subjects. There are other places where one can learn palaeography and so forth, but these are accessible, which is important. Some of the courses are free. Some are less so.
One of my favourite sites for reading. I love TEAMS. These people are so much my heroes - they make Middle English texts accessible to everyone. It bugs me when readers think that Shakespeare is ancient (or when popular TV series talk about Middle or Old English when they really mean Modern) - with the TEAMS' work it's possible to read literary works that go back significantly further. What I love especially, of course, is the pop literature in there. It's not pop in modern terms, of course, but it is not all terrifically highbrow. Some of it, in fact, is terrifically the-opposite-of-highbrow.
Some of my SF-writerly friends need their own planet generator. Now they have one. Although they probably had one already, which means now they might have two. If any of you get a God complex due to ownership of too many planet generators, I shall take note.
The last link is concerns typography. You get it purely because my mind drew a blank on Sunday night when I saw the credits for Flash Gordon. I used to be able to identify all fonts, always. It appears I cannot anymore.
I'm almost caught up on my emails, but I'm still very slow on things. Don't panic if I don't reply to posts and am generally tardy in my responses for a few days. It appears that all of you who said that I needed more recovery time were right, and that I was wrong. I'll maintain my leave of absence from LonCon work until I'm actually back to normal and, in the meantime, I'll prioritise things. I'll also take time out today - I need to go to the chemist today and that's up the street, so I ought to take the extra time and have a cuppa with Elizabeth and see Captain America (which I never *did* get to see on my birthday, because all my friends were either busy or had seen it) and then I'll come home and rest a bit and *then* I'll address some more of my looming paperwork. I know that this is all wrong in the Gillian order of things, to take time out for fun when one can overwork, but today, I shall do it. It's the only time I can before Saturday, to be honest.
And now you're up to date and full of links and I have papers that need tackling.
First the Lanagan interview. It's here. Cristian Tamas sorted my style errors for the site, for which we should all be truly grateful. I have a great desire to thank him in person, which leads me to my next link, which is self-explanatory (and besides, all of you who are interested or eligible have probably already acted on it) : the GUFF race.
Now for a couple of my favourite websites. The UK Institute of Historical Research offers online courses on some very interesting subjects. There are other places where one can learn palaeography and so forth, but these are accessible, which is important. Some of the courses are free. Some are less so.
One of my favourite sites for reading. I love TEAMS. These people are so much my heroes - they make Middle English texts accessible to everyone. It bugs me when readers think that Shakespeare is ancient (or when popular TV series talk about Middle or Old English when they really mean Modern) - with the TEAMS' work it's possible to read literary works that go back significantly further. What I love especially, of course, is the pop literature in there. It's not pop in modern terms, of course, but it is not all terrifically highbrow. Some of it, in fact, is terrifically the-opposite-of-highbrow.
Some of my SF-writerly friends need their own planet generator. Now they have one. Although they probably had one already, which means now they might have two. If any of you get a God complex due to ownership of too many planet generators, I shall take note.
The last link is concerns typography. You get it purely because my mind drew a blank on Sunday night when I saw the credits for Flash Gordon. I used to be able to identify all fonts, always. It appears I cannot anymore.
I'm almost caught up on my emails, but I'm still very slow on things. Don't panic if I don't reply to posts and am generally tardy in my responses for a few days. It appears that all of you who said that I needed more recovery time were right, and that I was wrong. I'll maintain my leave of absence from LonCon work until I'm actually back to normal and, in the meantime, I'll prioritise things. I'll also take time out today - I need to go to the chemist today and that's up the street, so I ought to take the extra time and have a cuppa with Elizabeth and see Captain America (which I never *did* get to see on my birthday, because all my friends were either busy or had seen it) and then I'll come home and rest a bit and *then* I'll address some more of my looming paperwork. I know that this is all wrong in the Gillian order of things, to take time out for fun when one can overwork, but today, I shall do it. It's the only time I can before Saturday, to be honest.
And now you're up to date and full of links and I have papers that need tackling.
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