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Hectic weekend. ‘Twas the hubby’s birthday on Saturday, also the last Dragon*Con 2009 Director’s Meeting. T minus 10 days. Head ‘splody now.

I was invited to do a cameo for an episode of the HG World: Original Zombie Horror Serial podcast. It’s a really well-produced show. Check it out! Listen for me in episode #2, “Born Down in a Dead Man’s Town,”as a newscaster.

Been poring over poorly documented PHP code all day in order to make a teeny tweak to a WordPress plug-in. (Yah, I customize my customizations. So?)

Feh. Just could not locate where a function was being defined. I prevailed at last, but I’m glad tomorrow’s my day off. Three-day weekend, I needs it.

I just created a Daily Dragon Twitter account to automagically tweet new articles/interviews and schedule changes. Follow: daily_dragon (http://twitter.com/daily_dragon).

Wow. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, Malcolm McDowell, Terry Gilliam, and Anthony Daniels. This year at Dragon*Con, we gots them.

T minus 15 days and counting…

My brain is cracking. Totally blanked on the word “espadrille” today. Kept coming up with “trebuchet” instead.

So wrong: “I just LOVE those trebuchets you’re wearing.”

Hm. But I do like the sound of “Espadrilles of War.”

Eyeball deep in Dragon*Con prep. Keep waffling between “latelatelate eee!” and “oh, I’m ahead from last year.” Makes my brain spin, it does.

Saw a blurb about a living terra cotta warrior at the Houston Museum of Natural Science leg of the exhibit tour on BBC’s Odd Box last night and had to engage my Google-fu. Wish he’d been there when we saw the Terra Cotta Warrior exhibit in Atlanta!

Decided to try to boost my speaking stamina before Dragon*Con in an effort to not lose my voice as I have every other year. I typically sound like a toad with a cold by day two. So I’m reading Tanith Lee’s Black Unicorn to fosteronfilm at night. It’s a charming book and quite short—it’s usually classified as either children’s lit. or YA—which makes it ideal for this sort of exercise.

When Matthew and I first got together, we used to read aloud to each other regularly, but we got out of the habit over the years. I’d forgotten how pleasant it is to share a story with the hubby like that. It’s an excuse to turn off the television, slow down for an hour or so from our frenetic schedules, and just enjoy each others’ company. Also, kinda romantic. Makes me want to make a real effort to reincorporate it as a regular part of our lives.

On the other hand, I’ve only been at it for two days, and my voice is already cracking. Would sort of defeat the purpose if I end up toad-with-cold-voiced before Dragon*Con. Sigh.

Interesting industry musings of the morning: Jason Sanford observes a recent trend in SF, “SciFi Strange.”

I’ve noted for a while that there’s been a decided upsurge in the popularity of “literary” fantasy, the New Weird, if you will, and wondered when/if it would hit SF. Seems I wasn’t the only one.

Also, I like the term “SciFi Strange.” Going to try to use it as many times in conversation today as I can.