I am working on a project today, so there will be no blogging (woes!). I had intended to post a delightful and thought provoking picture of something so that I could pretend that was what this blog post was all about, but sadly, I discovered my photo library was abandoned on the external hard drive [...]

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Back

Back from Ludditefest 2008. It was, as always, fantastic. There’s nothing like having enough time to just sit down and think in ink. Having a beer to hand is also extremely pleasant.
Home was waiting just as I left it, the kitchen 1950’s housewife style spotless (I even washed the garbage can), which made me very [...]

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Short Post

Today: I popped into Dots today to see if there was any chance of getting a summer dress that was under 100$ and left having spent 110$ on five items of clothing because they were beautiful and on sale and it would have been stupid to stick to my budget only to pay more for [...]

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What’s New

Yesterday I got to play model for a hairstylist named Piper who works at the The Fix. She picked a hairstyle I would never have chosen for myself, cut off four inches of hair, sculpted, styled, bleached and coloured. I’m glad I trusted her, because I think the cut, with (yep) the green highlights, is [...]

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Last

If you haven’t been listening to Last.fm, you probably should start.

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Life vs Writing

Sorry I have been a little quiet lately. It’s because I’ve actually been quite writerly for the last few days and haven’t had much time to blog.
I got my galley for Tenth Man, which was great and strange and meant that I spent all of yesterday (day) reading work I’d written that didn’t look [...]

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Updatery

I got to spend the afternoon catching up with my friend Liz, who has been residing in Winnipeg for some time and has promised to be my lifeline when I am there for KeyCon in May. She is wonderful to be around, adventurous and smart and I felt a pang when we parted because it [...]

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Not Gonna

OK, guys, I’ve all ready been invited to dump sparkles on my head and go see the Twilight movie and fun though it sounds, I won’t be going. The best reviews I’ve heard were that the movie was pablum and I don’t have enough spare real money to be spending on brain pablum. And no, [...]

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Nap time

I was surprisingly productive yesterday. I have three stories on the go. Two of them will probably never see the light of day and one I very much want to have done and out of the house by the end of December (though it’s unlikely). I spent an hour or so working on one story, [...]

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Retraction

I’m off to class in just a moment here, but this evening, whilst lounging in the bath I read Cory Doctorow’s essay on copyright in the November edition of Locus and I want to write about it. In his essay, Cory points out something that should be obvious and isn’t; creative works make culture and [...]

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