create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands That’s changed a fair bit in the last few years. Still need to visit Europe sometime, and would like to do Cambodia, China, Vietnam, maybe some of Africa, and some of South America. Someday…
Category: PERSONAL
Septembering
Just back from Charlie’s wedding, and found this post on Ritu’s LJ. While still a mite pensive, I’m doing the meme. 1) This is the 1st of September, what do you want to accomplish by the 31st? I need to revise 2 more stories (or more) to send out to major fiction markets by the end of September. I took up a challenge to do so. 2) What does September make you think about or feel? Two perhaps contradictory feelings: one, the beginning of the academic year. It’s when school always started for me, throughout my life, so it’s a …
For North American eclexys Readers
Sorry to limit this offer to North America, but the mag publishers asked. Not the biggest outfit in the world… yet. So, some readers will remember that I’m writing a blogging-women column for the new Canadian Womens’ magazine Cahoots. I’ve also made a couple of other contributions, for which I’m now apparently getting paid — whee! — but anyway, in lieu of payment for past contribs, I’ve got subscriptions to offer to readers in North America. It’s a womens’ magazine, and has nothing to do with SF, by the way. It’s kind of, well, empowered, Canadian, not-ranting but definitely-not-Cosmo. But …
Couple More Pics
Tina commented on the last post that I’d included no pics of myself, so here are a couple, after the cut.
Islands
Note: To all those seeing this for the first time, it’s a post from years ago. I have been adjusting the settings on my blog and it caused this post to be released as if it were new, but it’s actually very old. ORIGINAL POST: Lime was recently in Thailand with a friend of hers, a Korean woman about her age. When she got back to Korea, she had some interesting things to say. Korean people are like Islands, she said. She said that when she got to the airport, she found it stressful to be among Koreans again — …
Airport Blogging
So who ever attacked anyone with a pair of nail clippers? That’s what I wanna know. “Is water okay? Can I bring along a bottle of water?” “Which country are you going to?” “Australia.” “Yes. Water’s okay for every country except America.” I’m in the Singapore airport, you know, the transfers and duty-free shops area. So in Korea, I was among the duty free shops and asked, “Is there an ATM around here?” “No.” “Why?” “Because we must limit how much money leaves the country.” “I see.” It seems the ATM in the transfers section of the Singapore airport isn’t …
My New Dentist SO Rocks!
I had no idea how substandard my previous dentist, a really nice guy in Jeonju, was. My new dentist took one look at my fillings and asked my what country I’d gotten them done in. When I told him Jeonju, he tsk-tsked and showed me why he was disturbed. Yes, he showed me my teeth. I’ve never before had so many dental impressions and digital photos taken of my teeth, let alone so much discussion of what was wrong and why this or that procedure had to be done. He actually sat down with me at a computer, into which …
Do You Really Want to Know…?
How many readers are actually curious at what it’s like to have one of the more disturbing medical examinations a man can have across a language/culture barrier? Show of hands? And yes, it does involve the prostate. (And I’m fine. Just wondering whether to blog this in the interests of, well, amusing people, or not.)
Junk DNA Bet! (Expiration Date: 24 August 2016.)
So, there was this story that my esteemed Clarion classmate Guy Immega (of Vancouver, B.C.) wrote, and he asked for crits. I won’t go into the story in detail since (a) it’s his and (b) I’d rather just footnote this post when the story gets published in an SF magazine, so you can all run out and read it yourselves. But anyway, during crits, a disagreement arose between Guy and myself about the purposiveness of junk DNA. I expressed concern that certain uses of junk DNA might be problematic (especially over the long term), whereas Guy took the opinion it …
Travel Without Tech
One of the things about traveling is that it really reminds me how my personal comfort is ridiculously dependent on gizmos. Lime and I traveled up into Kangwon province, which is a pretty interesting place in some ways. We ended up spending most of our time in Sokcho, which is a town near the most northeastern point in South Korea. It was interesting because people did seem somewhat more chilled out there than in other places. They seemed more relaxed, and calmer; I wonder if the weather had anything to do with that? Perhaps… it was a lot cooler there …