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Sep. 12th, 2011 11:38 am It's BiblioBuffet time! Also BiblioBuffet morning. I have two pieces to write today. Only 100 pages of reading to go, though, so it's quite possible it may happen.
Sep. 12th, 2011
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Sep. 12th, 2011 11:48 amA link for your reading pleasure (it's a grotty Monday morning here and will possibly be a grotty Monday morning when Monday morning reaches the rest of the world - reading plasure is esssential*): http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2011/09/fiction-after-the-psychology-lab.html
*so is a big pot of coffee and a square of chocolate, both of which are about to enter my life. Monday afternoon, therefore, will not be nearly as grotty as Monday morning.
*so is a big pot of coffee and a square of chocolate, both of which are about to enter my life. Monday afternoon, therefore, will not be nearly as grotty as Monday morning.
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Sep. 12th, 2011 04:16 pmI just had a really cool phone call from a bank. Not my bank, but the one that handles the body corporate stuff for my flat. The ongoing issues I've had with paying my levy seem to be resolved.
This bloke found me a simple way of paying, online, using the current system, without incurring extra fees. Neither of us know why the system wouldn't accept my earlier payments (though I suggested maybe a glitch at the time they were set up) and it became really obvious to me that the management bod I spoke to about it hadn't run any checks when I had rung to sort it last year and the year before. "Your bank is the problem," he had said. And it may have been a part of it, but my bank sorted out its problems in processing those payments ages ago with a long talk on the phone and walking through procedures until we found which ones weren't working and the bank techie made them work. So the problems were not at my bank's end.
At any rate, this quarter I have paid my levy on time and with signficantly less undue angst, thanks to the nice guy from Macquarie Bank who was answering a rather distressed email I sent in the middle of my migraine, yesterday. I am still migraine-y today, but at least I have paid my bills!
In other news, I have finished enough review books for two articles and most of them will be able to be in the library for Conflux*. I just have to write those two articles today and that's one big swag of work done. I don't need to proofread those articles today, which is good, because the migraine makes my vision funky. I had to help proof read the Conflux programme last night, so any errors in the final are the fault of my migraine. This was not intentional. It just happened that way.
Looking at the Conflux programme was very salutary. Now I know when all the cool book launches are. These are the ones I plan to attend at this moment in time: the CSFG anthology (Winds of Change), the Angry Robot launch (5 books, with a bonus Ticonderoga book), Dawn Meredith's launch (she might not be happy if I stayed away from that, since I am her guest launcher), Mary Victoria's launch (where I have the honour of doing a reading), Simon Hayne's Hal Jnr launch (I have Simon's permission to make Young Hal and Falstaff jokes) and, of course, the cookbook launch. Eleven books! Also, writers from all over, from Perth to NZ.
I've scored a kaffeeklatsche, BTW, and, it being a Gillian kaffeeklatsche, I will be bringing chocolate. I was thinking after dinner mints, but we'll see. I'm taking my surprise holiday to Melbourne next week (act surprised when I'm on holiday and it will all work out) and maybe I'll find something else, there. One never knows, with Melbourne. One visit I brought back Perceval, after all**.
* as opposed to occupying the futon
** Perceval may be open to visits this Conflux, or he may make a trip to meet people at the con itself - we'll see.
This bloke found me a simple way of paying, online, using the current system, without incurring extra fees. Neither of us know why the system wouldn't accept my earlier payments (though I suggested maybe a glitch at the time they were set up) and it became really obvious to me that the management bod I spoke to about it hadn't run any checks when I had rung to sort it last year and the year before. "Your bank is the problem," he had said. And it may have been a part of it, but my bank sorted out its problems in processing those payments ages ago with a long talk on the phone and walking through procedures until we found which ones weren't working and the bank techie made them work. So the problems were not at my bank's end.
At any rate, this quarter I have paid my levy on time and with signficantly less undue angst, thanks to the nice guy from Macquarie Bank who was answering a rather distressed email I sent in the middle of my migraine, yesterday. I am still migraine-y today, but at least I have paid my bills!
In other news, I have finished enough review books for two articles and most of them will be able to be in the library for Conflux*. I just have to write those two articles today and that's one big swag of work done. I don't need to proofread those articles today, which is good, because the migraine makes my vision funky. I had to help proof read the Conflux programme last night, so any errors in the final are the fault of my migraine. This was not intentional. It just happened that way.
Looking at the Conflux programme was very salutary. Now I know when all the cool book launches are. These are the ones I plan to attend at this moment in time: the CSFG anthology (Winds of Change), the Angry Robot launch (5 books, with a bonus Ticonderoga book), Dawn Meredith's launch (she might not be happy if I stayed away from that, since I am her guest launcher), Mary Victoria's launch (where I have the honour of doing a reading), Simon Hayne's Hal Jnr launch (I have Simon's permission to make Young Hal and Falstaff jokes) and, of course, the cookbook launch. Eleven books! Also, writers from all over, from Perth to NZ.
I've scored a kaffeeklatsche, BTW, and, it being a Gillian kaffeeklatsche, I will be bringing chocolate. I was thinking after dinner mints, but we'll see. I'm taking my surprise holiday to Melbourne next week (act surprised when I'm on holiday and it will all work out) and maybe I'll find something else, there. One never knows, with Melbourne. One visit I brought back Perceval, after all**.
* as opposed to occupying the futon
** Perceval may be open to visits this Conflux, or he may make a trip to meet people at the con itself - we'll see.
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Sep. 12th, 2011 09:00 pmI have this grand desire (sudden, and rather unwise) to create a chapter that's the length my whole dissertation must end up. Or I could cut some words and streamline it and make it much less fun. Why are dissertations always too short?