It helps that I've tried to read 1-4 about fifteen times.

[melannen]

this is officially the Best Thing Ever This Week.

Public Access Cable always cheers me up.

On a completely unreated topic, it's starting to look like there might actually be a bunch of people I know at the National Book Festival. Anybody in the broad DC metro area who wants to be there, I would love to arrange to meet in person. (There aren't going to be nearly as many authors I fangirl there this year, so it would be neat to get to meet a bunch of real people I fangirl.)

I am also going to be at the Baltimore Comic-Con next weekend, at least on Saturday. My first real con ever, yay!

If that goes well, I've been meaning to make it to Capclave every year for the past four years, and it looks okay this year. (P&H Nielsen Hayden, the makinglight people, are the guests of honor!)

... and would like to fit Renfest in there sometime too, maybe.

We spent today driving with my sister around Leesburg, VA looking at apartments. She has a real, grown-up person type job now, *using* her colloge degrees, with pay that puts her *above* the poverty line. Alas, she's moving just far enough away to make it inconvenient to borrow DVDs off her. If she gets the apartment she wants though, it is a very awesome apartment. Fireplace! (And didn't we say that the year after she got a real job and real apartment, she'd be doing Thanksgiving?)

Tomorrow I get to find out whether I have a Sunday School class to teach, and then we're going to Catonsville Arts&Crafts Festival with some old friends of the family.

Comments

[zamochit.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm definitely going, possibly with thawidol. If I/we run into you, it would continue a vague tradition of book-related meetups, as the last time was the NaNo thingy, I believe.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

We should defininely try to meet up, then, yes. Yay books.

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

There's a chance that I'll be in Maryland the 3rd week in October (the last weekend of MD renfest), so try to keep that weekend free for renfesty type things if you can.. It depends on my schedule and on Jesse's schedule, though.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that would be good. I'll see-- the last weekend is often a bit crazy, but that only *helps*.

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

Right now Jesse's schedule for October is looking really hectic and I don't really want to drive back myself (if we can each do 4 hours each way it's not bad at all) But, there's still some chance I might make it - I may end up being flown back at some point to give a talk on the LSE's internals and make suggestions as to how the crazy government people should go about doing various things, and it would be nice if I could make that coincide with the last week of Fest. We'll see - right now I imagine probably only about a 20% chance.

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

Make that a zero percent chance, it turns out I already bought tickets for a couple of music things that weekend. But I will be back for Thanksgiving!

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

Also, Catonsville is where I'm from! Yet somehow I was unaware of the Arts and Crafts festival. Say hi to it for me. And go look at the crazy house I lived in for 5 years at 202 N. Beechwood.