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I'm going to submit two papers for the academic programming at DragonCon. I've already submitted one. I need to find the stuff for the Snape, Gender and Heroism one. Some of it is on redstapler's computer and some of it is on my harrdrive at home. Fun. I may have to reconstruct that abstract. Super not fun. Extra specially not fun: the part where I submitted the paper THREE TIMES, because I didn't realize my submission went through because there's a problem with the thank you page. I feel like an asshole.

Relatives are coming out of the woodwork. Just got an email from one last night. Should respond today. Having a weird internal thing about how my parents probably expect me not to be out to other people or whatever, and also wondering how that's going to go. It's not, of course a coming out _thing_ but when someone who hasn't seen me in twenty years asks what I've been up to, Patty's part of that.

You can now register for WriterCon workshops. Mine, on writing fight scenes, doesn't have a participant cap, but if you register in advance you make everyone's life easier. Also, if you are attending my workshop and are working on specific things, let me know here, so I know how to divide my focus amongst swords or guns or fists or magic or what.

Contract for anthology and bio sent.

Still need to do paperwork for WriterCon vending (and re-contact my co-vendors) and we're also firming up a TW/DW/SJA fan-led event thingy.

BIRDS ATE OUR BASIL PLANT.

And oh fandom, crazy plagiarists are crazy.

Comments

[hyrkanian.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it was birds what ate the basil? I have a horrible time with slugs eating any of my tender plants, but I don't think I've ever had birds eat any of my hundreds-over-the-years basil plants. Not saying "Birds don't eat basil, duh!" or anything, just that I used to think birds ate all my sunflower seedlings until I figured out it was slugs. If it's slugs, copper pipe fittings around the base will keep them away w/o having to resort to nasty chemicals. If it's birds, bird netting has helped immensely with keeping the flying rats away from our raspberries and blackberries, should work for basil as well.

[rm.livejournal.com]

The plant is on the 4th floor fire escape -- no slugs up here! Also, I caught the bird in action!

[these-3-remain.livejournal.com]

Caught red-beaked, as it were.

[hyrkanian.livejournal.com]

The classic in flagrante delicto! :) Bird netting it is then.