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I am pretty much completely recovered! My brain works again! This rocks. Also, sunny winter days are still my favorite.

Yesterday-snow-day I managed to get all the practical things done that I wanted to get done, and also (re)watch the three-part Master-and-Doctor season finale with people (so slashy. soooo slashy) and then complain cheerfully about the ending and then watch "Time Crash" which made it all okay. Oh, and I auditioned for a play, too!

Under practical things, file "finished my physics research applications". All done! Until next year. And maybe the people I do research for this summer will want me back next summer, or else I will have my license and a car and so will be okay with staying on campus next summer to do research or work at the archives or something. Or I will get an actual job. Or an unpaid internship and make the college give me a living stipend. Who knows what will happen in this year?

Responses For Which I Am Waiting:
- Auditions for that play (?)
- Physics research (starting March 1st, onward through March...?)
- Dell Award (who knows? they said three weeks, and then they said "a few", and it's been four and I am Impatient)
- Cicada (February 20th?)

Now I just get to do study abroad applications, and then I will have a full complement of things to wait for.

Maybe one of these days I will actually write something. Like revise the beginning of A Returning Power so I can send it in to Viable Paradise like I've been meaning to. I might almost have enough space in my brain, now. It's awesome to have all those physics applications out.

1. I have a mohawk.

1.5. It is very fluffy.

2. I am reading House of Leaves and it is very odd. I might post about it when I have finished, though I am not sure yet what I will say.

3. vcmw, I tried green tea with mint today and lo, it was tasty!

4. This weekend I went to Conbust. ( Details of ConBust! )
5. I am planning--I hope--to do one more big revision pass over "As Large as Alone" and then send it out somewhere soonish.

A request:

What are the books you think of when you think of YA SF?


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An explanation:

First of all, while everyone's talking about how big YA SFF has gotten lately, it seems to me like that's far more F than SF.

Secondly, I've mostly been a reader of fantasy, but if there is a hidden shelf of awesome YA SF somewhere, I want to read it.

Thirdly, I've had a YA SF story idea lurking in the back of my mind for coming on a year now, and I still don't quite how to write it, but maybe reading other YA SF novels and stories would help me figure it out.