Awardishness

I realized today that I really ought to be getting my list of Aurora Award nominations in, and realized shortly on the heels of that that "Tides of Change" is eligible for Short-form English.

Now, I have no illusions as to the size of the Aurora-voting audience of a short story in an anthology targeted for grades 7-8, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm very proud of the story and the series.

So if you a) are Canadian, and b) read "Tides of Change" and enjoyed it, and think it deserves a sparkly cheesegrater (ooh, the shiny!), nominations are due April 11.
posted by Sarah E. at 7:37 PM

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Plea for Transport

If anyone going to Ad Astra this year is passing near Keswick and willing to pick up/drop off a passenger, could you drop me a line?
posted by Sarah E. at 1:01 AM

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Advancing Hordes

You know that scene in the Two Towers, where they're preparing Helm's Deep for battle, fortifying their defences, donning their armour, and then everything stops, and over the silence you can hear the ominous rumble of the approaching horde?

Replace the ominous rumble with the sound of hyperactive schoolchildren on vacation, and you have the scene in the gallery this week.

March Break is always, as a rule, exhausting. Where we'd usually see 45 or 50 people in the gallery at a time, 100 on a really busy night, we're constantly over 200 or 250. I'm totally beat. And joy of joys, there are TWO WEEKS of March Break this year.

I'll let you know if I survive.

And here, from capheine, is something that made me laugh. Because it's true.

Discussing the use of LOL in communities today:


"It's like the old-timey telegraph... instead of "STOP", it's "LOL".

ALBERT YOU MUST COME HOME IMMEDIATELY LOL
YOUR SISTER IS ON HER DEATHBED LOL
ALSO YOUR CHILDHOOD HOME WAS BURNED DOWN BY THE KLAN LOL"
posted by Sarah E. at 7:40 PM

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Triumphantly Exhausted

Well, I made it to day 12 of my 12 day work week. There were highs (I wrote a story), and lows (it was a 12-day work week), and the coolest thing ever was being able to say "I had dinosaur training today", and many things in between, culminating tonight in Part 3 of Toronto: A Musical Mosaic. The concert itself was fabulous. We worked incredibly hard to pull it off, and we were in such good form that the man who had reinstituted the choir in 1986, who had heard this morning's CBC broadcast and come to the concert, came backstage at intermission to tell us how impressed he was with our sound.

Our narrator, Jonathan Lynde, was spectacular as always. Our special guest playing Russian diva Helena Holl knocked the house down, everyone agreed that the quartet playing The Crew Cuts were a hoot, and the Menaka Thakkar Dance company was incredible.
posted by Sarah E. at 12:23 AM

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Ow, My Most of Me!

I have one word of advice to anyone who wants to try to move a bookstore:

Don't.

The store is, for the most part, up and running, though it's probably going to take us at least a month to iron out all the wrinkles. Still, it promises to be good. I'll be more excited about it when I don't hurt quite so much.

On the up side, though, I got a call on Friday afternoon from the ROM -- they offered me a job facilitating in the feathered dinosaur exhibit. Hurrah! I really am excited, but again, ow.

Oh, and the bonus Hitchhiker's trailer looks a bit more promising. Plus, Marvin speaks. Yay Alan Rickman.

More later, when I'm actually functional.
posted by Sarah E. at 10:15 PM

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