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Note to the Internet (also to me): No reference is so obscure that there won't be anyone who wants to butt in and correct it. *sits on hands*

I started the evening crabby, but I got a bit of stuff done and read interesting things, so I felt better. Then I got a fever. Argh. If it's bad enough that I can't work tomorrow, you might see me around. Be kind! I'm not very coherent when fevered. *g*

Good night!

I can't click the cut tags on my flist on LJ. Or I can click them, but nothing happens. I can open them in new tabs without problem - it's just the single click that doesn't work. Huh?

Oh well. I don't read much there anyway.

My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Since I'm a lurking lurker who lurks most of the time, I don't really feel qualified to say this, but whatever.

Ok. You want to know who's making you sad by giving you a bad hit-count / comment ratio?

It's me.

( this is how. )

Lots of hits / not many comments doesn't have to mean "people read the story but don't like it".

(Of course that doesn't get into all the comments I don't leave because [list deleted; this is a topic for another post - which I probably won't make. This one's easier! *g*])

So, here's the thing. Last year I bought a Worldcon Membership in order to vote for the Hugos. It was a really cool experience - John Scalzi put together a "voter package" which included a lot of the nominess, so I felt qualified for voting even though I'd read exactly one of the nominated works before.

What I didn't know:

As a member of Anticipation, the 2009 World Science Fiction Convention, you are able to nominate works for the 2010 Hugo Awards which will be presented in Melbourne, Australia at Aussiecon 4.

My problem: Though I'm reading a lot more Fantasy and SF than oh, two years ago (when I didn't read any at all), I still don't know a lot of recent works I could nominate. I don't read the magazines, I don't know more than three authors (who are well-known enough that I don't feel the need to nominate them), though I know some fan-writing, I'm sure there's so much I don't see...

So: Tell me what to nominate! I can nominate up to five works/people in every category, so don't be shy! Works are eligible if they were first published in 2009 or, for works in languages other than English, first published in English in 2009. (Works don't have to be published in English to be eligible.)

( The Hugo Categories )

Last year I did two posts on some nominees and what I thought about them. You can find them here if you want to know what I liked and didn't like. Apart from that - I'd like to nominate some fannish stuff, stuff by women, stuff by minorities, stuff that might be overlooked by the "general" fantasy / SF audience, stuff that's just cool, ...

If you can think of anything, please let me know! I like a lot of different genres, and I need new things to read / watch all the time.

P.S.: Anyone know where I could crosspost this?

The snowball my neighbor just threw at my window is now a heart shape. Awwww. I declare this a good omen for 2010. Have a great one, everyone!

Oh, Chrome möchte, dass ich diesen Eintrag auf Deutsch schreibe! Sorry, Chrome!

I've been home sick since Tuesday (fever, sore throat, the works), and today's the first time I feel better. Earlier today I wrote a long post about all the suckiness of the last three days and decided to make it private. I hope you're thankful! *g*

The high point was yesterday, anyway, when I went to the doctor, got a recipe for antibiotics ("There's a lot of strep around these days"), went home and developed an eye infection half an hour later. Seriously. What the hell?

I asked the pharmacist when I had to go out again to pick up my meds, and she told me to get back to the doctor, so I called them and went back in the afternoon. I saw the other doctor (the first one only does half-days) who was a little puzzled - "Weren't you already here today?" *sigh*

Did I mention that it was raining cats and dogs on every one of those trips? Or that there's construction in my back yard this week? I could go on, but I won't. *g*

I actually got up this morning! I had coffee for the first time! I may even eat! My eye is less swollen! The fever is almost gone! Life is good again.

So. How are you?

I want to invite you! All of you! Unfortunately I only have one invite. First to comment gets it (I'll need an email address).

Invitation is sent!

Since I mentioned it yesterday: My November Resolution is: I'll eat food that I cooked. No take-out, no frozen dinners, and especially not raiding the fridge and wolfing done things that weren't meant to be wolfed down. Instead I'll cook, I'll take the stuff I cooked to the office (as well as snacks), and I'll eat at (mostly) fixed times every day.

We'll see how that goes. Today was very good, but since it's Sunday, it wasn't too difficult. Sunday is a cooking day anyway. But I'm good through tomorrow at least and have ideas for the rest of the week.

First one thing that's interesting to people other than me: elz made intro_to_cs, where we'll follow the MIT "Intro to Computer Science" course. All material is free and online, including video lectures, and I'll start in November. There's also people who'll start in January, and people doing one lecture a week or two. The course doesn't require programming experience and uses Python. If you're interested, come play!

I always wanted to do something like that, but learning on my own without any outside structure with timetables doesn't really work for me, so I'm very happy that elz is doing this. See you over there!

In other, more boring news: It's the weekend! I have time! Now I just have to use that time.... So here's a reminder to myself.
( things I want to do around here )