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Month: May 2009

Hello, Charlotte!

May 27, 2009
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I am glad that when I booked this flight I paid attention to where I was connecting. If you have a choice, I recommend being stuck in Charlotte. Here I am enjoying a rocking chair in the sunny atrium! Posted via LiveJournal.app.

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Home, Briefly

May 26, 2009
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To sleep, wash, repack, and leave in the am for NY. I’m dead tired. But I had a wonderful time. Gonna be dreaming soon of lying back on the grass & looking up at this sky…

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My Father’s Review of Star Trek

May 20, 2009
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"300 years into the future, you’d think someone would have designed a gun that could hit what it was aimed at."         –George Kontis, 1998 recipient of the George M. Chinn Award for excellence in small arms technology advancement

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Hypericon Panel Schedule

May 20, 2009
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I know you’re all coming to Hypericon, which is so chock full of authors it’s hard to breathe. Just make sure to leave some room on your schedule to see The Princess! Saturday, June 6 — 2:15 ME? A VILLAIN?Discussion on creating realistic bad guys and the nature of evil. Is there such a thing as True Evil?JOHN EVERSON,…

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Tomorrow’s Fair Game

May 20, 2009
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For those of you not following along on Twitter & Facebook, I got hit with a pretty serious bout of food poisoning Monday night (thank you Wing Stop, Murfreesboro). I lost about 36 hours to vomiting and blinding fever so I’m now behind on everything: work, laundry, packing for the next trip, posting the pictures of Mo*Con, charging my…

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With friends like these, who needs Con reports?

May 18, 2009
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The first two years I attended Mo*Con, the Machines of the Universe gave me something I didn’t know I needed. This time, it was Kelli Dunlap’s turn. And I helped. You can read her beautiful summary here. We had fun (as usual), we ate like kings (as usual), I took lots of pictures (as usual)…and then there was the…

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Tell me, did Venus blow your mind?

May 13, 2009
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I present to you a Geek girl’s brief review of Star Trek 2009: I cried at the beginning. I cried at the end. Hell, I almost cried when I heard the voice of the computer. I smiled when Grunny yelled at his "stepson," and when Amanda showed up on the bridge. For all my schoolgirl crush on Zachary Quinto,…

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