by Mel | Sep 3, 2008 | Random thoughts
Okay, learning to type differently is just a bit odd. For one thing, you realise that as a touch typist, you kind of think or see a word and your fingers just wiggle and the word pops up on screen. Learning a new system, you have to go back to seeing a word and...
by Mel | Aug 20, 2008 | Random thoughts
I have pre-conference brain. I keep thinking of errands I need to do, packing lists, planning and I’m not even leaving Melbourne….tomorrow is full of actual pre-conference stuff – committee meetings, costume tours, the fabulous Bron Parry’s...
by Mel | Aug 12, 2008 | Cool stuff, Random thoughts
Lois McMaster Bujold’s Denvention Con Com Guest of Honor speech about romance and SFF and genre stuff amongst other things. In other news, Anne Stuart is going to write more historicals. Also, for Melbournians…there are three cool things coming up at the...
by Mel | Aug 7, 2008 | Random thoughts
I am back and the trip home was uneventful. No delays, a reasonable amount of sleep on the flight and the person picking me up from the airport remembered to turn up. I’m a bit tired, seem to have a mountain of laundry to do and have the requisite long flight...
by Mel | Jun 8, 2008 | Random thoughts
Well that last post was overly optimistic. Because Wednesday night I started feeling exhausted and then by Thursday morning I had developed the maybe inevitable post travel plague. So there has been lots of sleeping, reading, sleeping, watching dvds, sleeping,...
by Mel | May 8, 2008 | Random thoughts
I’ve never liked porridge. Not sure why, but something about the gloopy texture always put me off as a kid. Give me cold cereal all the way. Or toast and vegemite. Or yoghurt mostly since I’ve been working. But with the whole crazy diet and the waking up...
