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1) I went to Fourth Street. This involved having an awful lot of travel disruption, but a really good time while I was there. I have gotten a lot better at moderating my own NOW TRY TO INTROVERT thing at conventions so that it's not nearly so overwhelming, though I did push it hard enough on the last day that I had to hunker down for a few hours before recovering enough to go say goodbye to people.
There were a lot of great panels. I'm lousy at con writeups. Sorry.
2) I've been reading The Philosopher Kings, by Jo Walton. I have no idea how I'm going to review this book. It's amazingly good, and very much like the first one (The Just City), but it's done a time job to carefully avoid basically doing the first book over again Bigger Stronger More Complicated, and is instead moving on to the implications and fallout from the first. Highly recommended. Nothing else like it out there.
3) Chores. Sort of? I try to keep up on chores. More or less.
4) Writing. Sort of? Conventions eat my brain, and the summer slowly drains my willpower. We'll see how it goes. But I have figured out the overarching structural issues with Elf & Dragon, at least somewhat, which should help when I finally get out the sculptural chainsaw and go at it.
5) Video games! Rune Factory 4 is adorable, and for once I've gotten far enough into a Rune Factory game to be really thoroughly into the plot. I'm not sure if this one is shorter than usual, or if I just played an awful lot of it in airports recently, or if it's because I set the difficulty to easy so I'm cutting through dungeons like an enchanted knife through artisanal butter made from buffamoo-harvested milk. Probably a bit of each.
There were a lot of great panels. I'm lousy at con writeups. Sorry.
2) I've been reading The Philosopher Kings, by Jo Walton. I have no idea how I'm going to review this book. It's amazingly good, and very much like the first one (The Just City), but it's done a time job to carefully avoid basically doing the first book over again Bigger Stronger More Complicated, and is instead moving on to the implications and fallout from the first. Highly recommended. Nothing else like it out there.
3) Chores. Sort of? I try to keep up on chores. More or less.
4) Writing. Sort of? Conventions eat my brain, and the summer slowly drains my willpower. We'll see how it goes. But I have figured out the overarching structural issues with Elf & Dragon, at least somewhat, which should help when I finally get out the sculptural chainsaw and go at it.
5) Video games! Rune Factory 4 is adorable, and for once I've gotten far enough into a Rune Factory game to be really thoroughly into the plot. I'm not sure if this one is shorter than usual, or if I just played an awful lot of it in airports recently, or if it's because I set the difficulty to easy so I'm cutting through dungeons like an enchanted knife through artisanal butter made from buffamoo-harvested milk. Probably a bit of each.