1. I am back from weekend at SCA event! I did a lot of stuff including throwing knives for the first time, re-learning how to card-weave, speaking in a bardic circle, acquiring a lot of fabric I did not need, and freezing my feet off for two nights. Completely failed 90% of my "socialize" rolls but whatev.

2. There are cats at my house now. small fuzzy purry things that meow at you until you cuddle them it's so great.

3. invisible_ficathon is running Lost Library - last year it ran an exchange for fanfic for fictional fandoms mentioned in other works; this time the exchange is for people to create the fictional canon itself. (I like the *concept* of the fanfic version better but I think a lot of people were confused about it last year and a bunch of stuff was nominated that really didn't work with that conceit, this version is probably going to make more sense.)

Anyway I am definitely nominating Dogcopter (my chances of a Dogcopter/Dog Cops crossover are slim to none, but I live in hope) and the lost song Breq sang in Ancillary Sword about that one time Anaander Mianaai had a really bad breakup.

I'm not sure what else though? You can now have multiple things under one fandom that count as one request so I'll probably put in some more Radchaai stuff and some more Steven Universe stuff but beyond that I dunno. I'm still really excited about all the stuff I nominated last year, but none of it got offers, so. On the other hand as it works this year, if I understand, it'll match on the actual source canon rather than the fictional canon, so surely at least the XF ones would have a chance? :/ Maybe I'll nom The Complete Poems of Jean Prouvaire or sth. Does anybody have any suggestions for other stuff I should nominate....

(I probably shouldn't sign up because will be super-busy in July, but eh, 500 words min, and I'm currently feeling good about my Remix assignment.)

4. I bought a Hugo vote. I figure between using the voting packet and nominees to fulfill my "read recent short fiction" resolution and all the joy that following seventy years' worth of grade-A fandom wankery has given me over my lifetime, forty dollars to Worldcon was cheap, and I have the money right now. Of course that means I have until the end of July to read, at minimum, The Goblin Emperor and The Three-Body Problem. Life is hard.

(PS I read Ancillary Sword last weekend! :D More to come on that later probably but now I really really really want Breq/Seivarden/Mercy of Kalr conduitfic/identity porn/kinkfic/roleplay/threesome/you know what I mean, where Seivarden plays ancillary for both Breq and Ship. Because yes ok.)

5. My class is over! Which means that a, I have days off again!!! and b, I am now officially a Maryland Master Naturalist Intern, w00t.