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Pacific Rim 18 Aug 2013 | 05:46 am
I said this on Twitter already, but can I just say that I watched Pacific Rim last night (in 3D AT THE IMAX THAT WAS SUCH A GREAT CHOICE) and my heart is full of love and everything is awesome. Pls li...
Nine Worlds 2013 con report: Part 2 14 Aug 2013 | 04:12 am
My first panel was at 10 am on the second day of Nine Worlds, and the noble Katy said she would attend, so a whole group of us ended up peeling ourselves off our beds (our lovely, lovely beds) at a di...
Nine Worlds 2013 con report: Part 1 12 Aug 2013 | 11:09 pm
I am kind of embarrassed to admit that I wasn’t … really … looking forward to Nine Worlds? It is not because it didn’t sound cool. I am just really lazy! And Heathrow is so far away, and I had found m...
Nine Worlds panels what I am on 7 Aug 2013 | 12:38 am
Nine Worlds is this weekend! OMG, I am so unprepared. As at Wiscon, I plan to make it through my panels on pure charm, i.e. I intend to smile a lot and laugh at everyone’s jokes. After I painstakingl...
Competing mangoes 22 Jul 2013 | 03:41 am
Today I conducted a mango pageant! It is because I read The Furious Pear Pie's post about Thai sticky rice with mango, in which she mentions that nice mangoes from the subcontinent are currently in se...
Nine Worlds 13 Jul 2013 | 01:42 am
So I’m going to be at Nine Worlds next month! If you haven’t heard of it, Nine Worlds is a cool new con in London with a huge and diverse list of guests, and tracks for all kinds of things. I have to ...
Zen fails at food photography 11 Jul 2013 | 12:57 am
I made black sesame “brownies”! I used a recipe from Pig Pig’s Corner, Black Sesame Brownies, though mine aren’t as gloriously tar-like as hers — mine look more like ones Green Cilantro made. I don’t ...
Eating Zens 1 Jul 2013 | 11:42 pm
Writer Lawrence M. Schoen does a blog series on Eating Authors, wherein he asks writers to describe their favourite and/or most memorable meal. I, er, flailed. But if you don’t mind responses that don...
21 Days of Dreamwidth: Day 10 29 Jun 2013 | 02:36 pm
21 days of Dreamwidth I have just realised that I was doing this meme and totally dropped it when I went for Wiscon. *koff* Picking it up again! 10. Tell me about your default icon. My default icon...
Sale! 28 Jun 2013 | 11:57 pm
I forgot to mention that Kaleidotrope has said they will take my short story Monkey King, Faerie Queen. Huzzah! Won’t be seeing it till 2015, but I’m very pleased. It’s been hard to sell — I first wro...
