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Johan ([personal profile] johan) wrote2004-11-23 12:36 pm

Tuesday, very Tuesday

I wrote a small spoof fanzine yesterday, only two pages of blather. That felt good. I have an excessive writer's block when it comes to writing worthwhile stuff, but when I'm allowed to just blather along, no problems at all.

I finished Pete Weston's fannish memoir With Stars in My Eyes a couple of days ago. Fan history is interesting, and biography is interesting, so fannish memoirs are among the best reads there are. Pete's a bit of a wooden prose writer, but I really enjoyed the book. Let's see if I manage to write something intelligent and coherent about it. It also served to inspire me a bit in my fannish endeavours. I'd like to see our small group here in Upsala evolve a bit, beyond just pub meetings and discussing a book for half an hour once a month. A couple of us are talented and prolific faneds (not me alas!), but I'd like to get more of the group involved in national fandom. Sadly, the Twelfth Night con idea seems to have died before it even got started. My fingers itch to take the initiative, but I tell myself that shan't. So I won't. Other fun things happening in my fannish life instead.

The question is should I and [livejournal.com profile] jlms go to Paragon 2 next year in Hinckley or not? I think we can afford both that, Interaction, and Snorfcon, so it shouldn't be a problem. But I'd like to go to the Oslo con as well. Have to sit down and count out the silver, I guess. [livejournal.com profile] jlms should have a job at the department for the next two years, which will make things less complicated.

Snow here today, the bus ran a bit late, but that gave me five extra minutes to enjoy Fforde's Lost in a Good Book.

[identity profile] apel.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Umm, you may find that your wife's LJ is [livejournal.com profile] jlms. ;-)

Gaaaah!

[identity profile] jophan.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Brain fart. Thanskyoueversomuch!

Re: Gaaaah!

[identity profile] jlms.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Vad kallade han mig??

Re: Gaaaah!

[identity profile] jophan.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
Nea, so it wasn't too embarassing...

[identity profile] jlms.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. Yes, we should!

[identity profile] gwydhel.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
I met Walter Hunt last night. Nice guy, fun speaker, and I'm enjoying his books.

Oh, och hur mår du min vän?

[identity profile] jophan.livejournal.com 2004-11-24 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
There goes my sf cred, never heard of Hunt before. I'm probably going to bump into his books seventeen times to next ten days. Of course [livejournal.com profile] mrhedgehog below knows everything about him, having sold the stuff...

Jag mår alldeles utmärkt! Jag hoppas att du och Maggie också mår bra.

[identity profile] gwydhel.livejournal.com 2004-11-24 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
Here's Walter Hunt's website (http://www.walterhunt.com/). His books are quick reads and a lot of fun. Space opera stuff with humans and cool aliens.

Ja, vi mår bara bra, tack! Did I tell you that Maggie and I are having a baby? I'm going to be a dad in May!

[identity profile] jophan.livejournal.com 2004-11-25 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! Wonderful news! I assume Maggie is in agreement with you over the question of bringing the baby up as a native Gàidhlig speaker?

[identity profile] gwydhel.livejournal.com 2004-11-25 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Naturally, though who knows how successful we'll be, completely devoid of any sort of community speaking the language. But we intend to give it our best shot!

[identity profile] jlms.livejournal.com 2004-11-26 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, congratulations!!

[identity profile] mrhedgehog.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, you should go.