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One thing makes a post

Sitting at the dining room table, looking out the window into the backyard. There’s a robin sitting in the prairiefire crabapple, just looking around. Not used to seeing them at this time of year, but I recall someone telling me that for robins, wintering is relative. Far northern robins may go south, but their south is still north…if that makes sense.

My visitor must be one of those Arctic robins.

But they’re still a sign of !SPRING! to me, so Color Kris Confused. Yeah, I know. Doesn’t take much sometimes.

It will be an indoor weekend, working and pulling together stuff for Confusion. Going to try to pack light this time, but you know how that goes.

Still, a velvet jacket, jeans, and a few clean shirts should be enough, shouldn’t it?

Epic Confusion schedule

‘Twill be a busy time. My great hope is that this abnormally mild winter we’re having here in the upper Midwest does not decide to revert to form the weekend of the con.

7pm, Friday Salon G Race, Class, and Gender
(Steve Piziks, Kameron Hurley, Kristine Smith, Sarah Zettel, Jay Lake)

10am, Saturday Salon E Over the Horizon
(Tobias Buckell, Kristine Smith, Doselle Young, Michelle Sagara West)

11am, Saturday Athens Reading
(Kristine Smith Jim Hines)

1pm, Saturday Salon H Natural Sounding Dialogue
(Kristine Smith, John Scalzi, Myke Cole, Christine Purcell, Christian Klaver)

5pm, Saturday Salon E Mass Autograph Session
EVERYONE

1pm, Sunday Salon F Women in Combat
(Carrie Harris, Jim Hines, Kristine Smith, Scott Lynch, Kameron Hurley)

Friday!

Three-day weekend! The night is lovely so far, but storms possible tomorrow. I’ll worry about them tomorrow.

Spent the past hour making hotel reservations online and setting up awards accounts. And watching the new Dr Who. I had heard the episode was, well, hectic, and it is. No spoilers, but I will say that a great deal about the early life of a certain individual is left out and I hope the gap is filled in over the course of this half-season. Because otherwise things are just a bit too flip.

And the sudden change in attitude? Didn’t buy it, sorry. Too great a magnitude too quickly. I can hear my editor going “Ummmmm….”

I had three appointments tomorrow and canceled them all. I needed the time more. There will be grocery shopping and tomato blanching and cookie baking and writing. And SFWA voting. As soon as I get my hands on the ballot. Which I assume is awaiting me in my PO Box.

Convention update

Looks like the first convention of 2012–barring Midwest-blanketing blizzards–will be ConFusion, which takes place 20-22 January in Troy, Michigan. Looking forward to seeing Dave and Tarri and other folks I haven’t seen in, well, years. And I’ve read rave reviews of the con itself, so, as I said. Looking forward.