So tired this morning. We went to a fondue night on Saturday (mmmmm…. cheesy goodness…..) and stayed up way too late, drank just enough splurgundy, slept on the floor, and woke to a bone-crunchingly deflated air mattress after not nearly enough sleep. Long gone are the days that I can do that sort of thing without suffering…… Continue reading I jinxed Paul Newman
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Behold!
(Picture nicked from catsparx)Behold the glory that is the Canterbury 2100 anthology. Now that there’s cover art (by Nick Stathopoulos) the book is officially real. Can’t wait to see it in three dimensions… It’s being launched at Conflux in early October (an event I would love to attend, but instead I will be locked in a…… Continue reading Behold!
Me and a Velociraptor
Thanks to Cat Sparks…I could survive for 1 minute, 19 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor
Happiness Forum
So a few of my girlfriends have decided that they want to run a ‘Happiness Forum’ a couple of weeks from now. I know, it sounds like a load of new-age wishy-wash, but I think it might be fun (especially since plenty of splurgundy will be imbibed while we gush about happiness. If alcohol doesn’t…… Continue reading Happiness Forum
Thesis week…
I’ve taken this week off work so that I can get some serious thesis chapter writing done.Clearly I’m doing well, considering it’s Monday morning and I’m already blogging instead of writing about nationalism in the Middle Ages. (Was there a sense of nationalism in medieval Iceland? Is it possible for early modern societies to be…… Continue reading Thesis week…
Chicken kiev, barnacles, and tinselworms…
Bill Bailey is a genius. My face still hurts from laughing so much at his show last night. I laughed so hard and at such length that I was completely dehydrated by the end of the night (which had nothing to do with the multiple glasses of wine we’d had at dinner beforehand…) Each time…… Continue reading Chicken kiev, barnacles, and tinselworms…
Blurry
Things are busy, and exciting. I still haven’t gotten over the buzz of being accepted into Clarion — in fact, I’ve started dreaming about it already. (Literally. I had a dream last night that the whole thing came and went, and it felt like I missed it all because it went so quickly. Somehow I…… Continue reading Blurry
More great news!!!
I’m going to Clarion South 2009!I got the call and the email that say I’ve been accepted to participate in the Clarion South Writers’ Workshop from January 4th until February 14th!!So exciting… can hardly type… even though I received this news two days ago! Yay yay yay yay — and yay!!OK, back to work on…… Continue reading More great news!!!
On Spec rocks!!
I sold a story to On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic — woo hoo!!! I just received a letter that states, "We were very pleased to receive this submission, and would like to buy it for publication in a future issue of On Spec." After reading that line, I dropped the letter and danced…… Continue reading On Spec rocks!!
I HATE WORD!!
It took me nearly an hour to translate this: Þorleikr Höskuldsson hafði verið farmaðr mikill ok var með tignum mönnum, þá er hann var í kaupferðum, áðr hann settisk í bú, ok þótti merkiligr maðr; verit hafði hann ok í víkingu ok gaf þar góða raun fyrir karlmennsku sakar.to this:Þorleikr Höskuldsson had been a great seafarer, and…… Continue reading I HATE WORD!!
Lisa L. Hannett 