sundries

Last night I got a package from Patty! So I had gluten-free welsh cakes for breakfast. I also got to talk to her on video a little bit, and it was awesome.

Patty, by the way, loves scary stories and needs them now more than ever since she's in a place that doesn't do Halloween like we do in the US. Do you have any recommendations for her?

Had dinner with Marci who also made me gluten-free hazelnut brownies that were so rich I felt like I was high. We rambled about a lot of stuff, and she had to hear my not yet cogent "short film that I shouldn't set in Sydney, because that adds an appalling layer of logistical complexity, but see, it has to be set there." But it felt good to speak it aloud. I feel very excited about that project too, but am also content to let it be back-burner because there are factors that don't let it be Now Now Now but do allow me to be doing the research and foundations and scripting (and a seminar here or there to teach me the things I need to know to get the right people on board) of it with an eye to finally really doing it. So hey.

Meanwhile, yesterday mithrigil and I got word that D&J has been accepted for Kickstarter funding; that was a big hurdle and an important one. The fund-raising project isn't live yet (among other things, we need to make a video in support of it, which I'm planning to storyboard out today), but will be soon. This is pretty much a critical step to making things happen, and you're on notice. I'm also going to go talk to my bank today and think about whether incorporation is better now or later. We've also seen some logos for stuff, and the web stuff is moving along. I, meanwhile, want to finish mapping out the bigger show structure by the end of the week.

*BREATHE*

And I'm back into the Pam Cook book. You know, I thought I'd heard most of the terrible stories from the Romeo + Juliet shoot; how'd I miss the one about the killer bees? Seriously though, right now what I'm enjoying most about the book is the look it's taking at the anxieties in academia about what is worthy of notice and serious examination and how that's impacted scholarship about Shakespeare (scholarship about everything, I say). So yay. Also, let's of relevances to Friends of the Text issues.

Still obsessing over an old character of mine who really needs a story of his very own. Not critical, but I'm waiting for my mind to put it together.

I think there will be more focus on ConSweet when I'm in CH. It's a good solitary endeavor.

Food issues for CH have been dealt with, and I have the address of the flat I think they're putting me in so I can register with the consular; unfortunately, the way their form works I'm "single, never married" which is NOT REAL HELPFUL if, god forbid, they never need to be useful to me and mine. I'll do that, and also do my passport numbers bit with BA today.

Among other things, I consider myself a student of marketing. So if the "I am not a witch" campaign works, I'm going to feel like I've been failing for years.

Jim DeMint says there should be know gays or unwed moms in the classroom. I find these things hurtful. For a long time I wanted to teach. I think, some of how I do the stuff I do instead, comes out of that lingering desire. The idea that I an unfit to help young people be who've they're gonna be bugs me. A lot.

Manhattan Free School. Completely not right for every kid; totally right for some kids. The money quote? "'I want to do something with my life between starting a family and dying.'"

Anti-gay attacks have been reported in NYC both at Stonewall and in Chelsea.

oooo, panel

Just found the Freaks & Geeks in Harry Potter panel from Dragon*Con 2010 online:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDvbxK4zP4E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4YhyimNPDA

Blurry, but hey. This is better than I remember it being. Yay.