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Thanks to K, my larder is stocked. Just in time, too, for the lurgie is back. I did need to lose weight, and I'm not teaching right now, and I can work through this (well, not precisely through it, more like in between it) and so much of Canberra has this virus that the best medicine for it is on special display in the supermarket.

My PhD is progressing towards final at a rapid rate, for all my proofreaders have reported in on the bibliography. An hour more work on it today at my end will also help.

In other news, I'm seeing life through cellophane until my new glasses arrive. My old ones suddenly reached the stage where they had to be held together with sticky tape. I was not expecting this. I don't know why not, actually, considering it was a bit falling off that made me get my eyes checked and seek new ones last week. I have to admit, it's a nuisance, but rather impressive to be wearing zombie glasses.

Mostly I want to sleep. Mostly I am sleeping. Sleeping and eating crystallised ginger and correcting portions of PhD. This is the life of the sybaritic student.

There was news, actually, and I keep forgetting to remind people of it. I will be online at Coyote Con the weekend I submit my doctorate. I'm on a panel or two in interesting US timezones. Alas, I haven't worked out a way of bringing real chocolate with me to panels for an online convention, but there will be virtual chocolate. The day I submit, anyone who wants can meet me at King O'Malley's and there may be real chocolate.

My other news was that I received a spectacular homemade birthday card today. It's not my birthday, but how could I object to a card so glorious? This is entirely unrelated to the fact that I'm seeing an all-male performance of Pirates with the friend who posted the card (but not, I suspect, the friend who made it?) next week.

Radio waves

For those who want to know what I sound like (since you already know what I look like), I'll have a few minutes of radio interview tomorrow as part of the ArtSound program on Conflux. It's going to be an interesting program, regardless of how many stupidities I fitted into my few minutes, and ArtSound can be heard anywhere in the world. There are links on this page: http://artsound.fm/listen-online/ I believe it's 9 am Australian Eastern Standard Time (summer time starts tomorrow night, woo-hoo!) which is one of the few timeslots that's not entirely impossible for most people in more known continents.

Just think, if you listen, you'll be able run at the sound of me as well as the sight of me. Your skill sets will be greatly increased and your quality of life significantly improved.