To all who wished me a happy birthday, by the way, thanks! I’ve been busy like mad, and will remain so for a while, but I did appreciate it.
Month: March 2006
Impressions
Work stuff, this is… some of my basic impressions about my new workplace. The bulk of the post is behind the splice, and it’ll take a click for the whole thing to be imposed upon your screen.
Sax Tax
I just quickly checked my email on the local free network, and thought I’d post this before I go see Lime for a bit, before my next class starts up. When I arrived in Incheon this afternoon, I was (of course) stopped by the Customs Officers, but they didn’t just once-over my bag and wave me through. No, no, they asked me to follow them to a side room, and a long, confusing discussion that I couldn’t really follow commenced. At the end of it, I learned that, on that strange and perplexing evening when I first arrived in Korea, …
No Wm. Gibson?
I was in the Japanese bookshop the other day, looking for a couple of books for Lime’s friend who majored in Japanese lit. That was a pretty odd experience… the girls who helped me spoke very little English, and I ended up saying, “New? Woman or man? Award? Okay!” and getting two books that way. While I was there, I checked out their extremely decent little SF-section, when I noted that there was no William Gibson in the SF section. I found myself surprised, but only for a moment. I guess a lot of the allure of his Nipponese sf-fantasies …
Wish Me, Well, Not Good Luck, But Maybe a Broken Leg or Something
I thought I would miss the deadline for the Canadian Speculative Fiction Anthology Tesseracts10, but it turns out they accept electronic submissions and that the deadline is today, so I spent the morning preparing my electronic submissions in PDF format. Now, if you follow the link, you’ll see that the deadline is March 1st… 2005. Argh. Anyway, it was a good learning experience for me: I figured out how to export PDFs with all the proper formatting in Open Office, and I chose some stories and poems that I think are publishable. I’ve emailed someone at Edge, the publisher of …