I did my Hugo nominations! I didn't read half as many things or half as well as I ought, and I liked less than half of them half as well as they deserved. And I didn't nominate as much as I was planning to, either, because I came home yesterday and crashed out on the hammock chair instead of finishing my noms. But I got in everything I really wanted to get in, and it's done one way or another! And now I get to read WHATEVER I WANT without the pile of Hugo-eligible stuff staring at me balefully from across the room. I can get to finally read the new Vorkosigan book! And the new Young Wizards book! And most importantly, the last-ever Dragonbreath book!

(I was good and only nominated Ursula Vernon twice. <_<)

...not that the Hugos stopped me from reading the first 14 volumes of Naruto and nine volumes of Dragonball and two large tomes about sea monsters but you know sometimes you just have to read old manga and books about sea monsters.

Being a Hugo voter is really hard work, guys. I think I am now morally opposed to fan-nominated awards, not for any fairness-of-awards reason, but because if I put in that much work I wanna be getting paid for it. I will probably not be doing that again, whew.

Let's see. I've signed up for Camp NaNo again, which is good because I've been slacking on that. I'm also signed up for MCU Rolling Remix, which sounded fun, and I really liked the last remixy thing I did, although I suppose I should actually watch Age of Ultron before I write mine. I planted some peas in the garden last week but I don't know if they're coming up yet (something is coming up, but is it peas?) and I should really do some more garden stuff this weekend. And I signed up for the get-in-shape challenge at work, because they give you prizes, and I've already been trying to do jump rope to build my cardio (reading about ninja training is good motivation for this). I started where I'd feel like death after 25 jumps; after six weeks I feel only a little bit like death after 4 sets of 50, which I guess is progress, but it's progress from a pretty low floor.


ANYWAY. I was thinking about reviewing some of the short-fiction stuff I read for Hugos, but there are several of them where my review would be "I would have nominated it but it has boy cooties" and that just wouldn't have advanced the dialogue at all really. Anyway, if you want to ask me my thoughts on any of the things rated on my list of stuff to read ask and I will ramble. (If you want to know why I didn't read one that's not rated, there is no answer, except that I didn't get to it in the list.)