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notes before lunch

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.

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and thought wondrously how

Some things I like:
- Benjamin Parzybok's story at Strange Horizons this week, Birds;
- a link I found wandering through his blog after reading it: Authors, Poets Write the News, which rather made me feel that I would like to live in that universe, and then I realized that that is this universe, so I don't even have to move;
- my roommate-for-next-year and I got the room we wanted (which has a bay window, which we will sit in and drink tea and, probably, talk about Science, and I will write stories);
- tomorrow is when a friend from high school is coming to be a prospective student and sleep in my room, and I shall show her all around and introduce her to people;
- book-art-ing Dhalgren, although it may take me years.

More on that last: so far I've just been using markers, and when I have a spare moment or wander into my room I draw or scribble something on a page or two.

One of these days I will find watercolors or pastels or crayons or something and do some more serious work on it. For now, though, each page just takes me a few seconds, and I feel like I have done something, if not Done Something, and slowly of course the pages will add up.

Though there are eight hundred of them, so like I said, it might take a while.

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some things I have been meaning to post

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.

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"it's not fun if they don't scream"

The last part of my winter break was wholly unproductive--I alternated sitting around reading books and hanging out with friends. Only being back for two weeks means that I definitely failed at seeing everyone, but I got to see quite a few people, which was good. Hit most of my Twin Cities highlights, too: Como Park Conservatory, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center, three or four different libraries...

Kinds of cookies devoured: 4 (sugar cookie cut-outs, pumpkin with cranberries, molasses, oatmeal-raisin)
Kinds of bread devoured: 2 (Stollen, cornbread)
Candy canes devoured: 12?
Books read: a bunch
Tiny oranges devoured: too many to count

Soon I will be headed back to campus for J-term. My writing goals for the next few weeks include:
- write some more solstice stories
- keep working on the first draft of The Urban Fantasy Novel
- print out "As Large As Alone" and go over the beginning with a fine-toothed comb
- for my J-term class (GLBT content in children's and YA lit), write a final project--possibly the first chapter of a YA GLBT novel.

Other activities will include Having fun and Working at my awesome job.

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YA SF touchstones

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.