The thing that passes for vacation
Oct. 21st, 2019 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrj I've been sounding awfully grumpy about the things I've chosen to do with my paid time off work. Rest assured that I try to get all the grump out onto the outside and am not (mostly) letting it fester inside. But if I had the ability to schedule things for my own convenience, I wouldn't have schedued the Sirens conference and my dad's 90th birthday party (on the opposite side of the country from where we both live) and preparing for a book launch all in the same month. I'd add in "trying to finish to many cause investigations on deadline simultaneously" but that's become the new normal at work. (We currently have 5 open positions in a 14-headcount department. You do the math.)
But I am now officially on vacation and sitting at SFO to fly to Denver for a week of hanging out with people who are excited about women in fantasy literature. I wish I'd had the time and energy to do more of the "homework" that is designed to make this conference special, with attendees bringing familiarity with a common body of work. I know it's all entirely optional, but last year (it being my first year at Sirens) I was blissfully ignorant of that aspect. This year I feel like a complete slacker, simply because all my other reading commitments don't leave time for full participation.
And now they're starting boarding, so I'll talk to you all on the flip side. You can start keeping your eyes peeled for the promotional guest-blogs I've been doing for Floodtide. The first one is up at the Breaking the Glass Slipper blog and there should be another coming out this week.
But I am now officially on vacation and sitting at SFO to fly to Denver for a week of hanging out with people who are excited about women in fantasy literature. I wish I'd had the time and energy to do more of the "homework" that is designed to make this conference special, with attendees bringing familiarity with a common body of work. I know it's all entirely optional, but last year (it being my first year at Sirens) I was blissfully ignorant of that aspect. This year I feel like a complete slacker, simply because all my other reading commitments don't leave time for full participation.
And now they're starting boarding, so I'll talk to you all on the flip side. You can start keeping your eyes peeled for the promotional guest-blogs I've been doing for Floodtide. The first one is up at the Breaking the Glass Slipper blog and there should be another coming out this week.
