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Sasquan, Exit Stage Left
Up until a week before Sasquan, the 73rd Worldcon, I was the Events Deputy Division Head and the Co-Director of the Hugo Ceremony. Then, I resigned. Here is why.
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Oslo – One Foot In Front Of The Other
I have to admit, Oslo and I did not get off to a great start. By the time I got here, I was jetlagged, hungry and wanted nothing but to fall over and sleep forever. But that was not in the cards for me. When I landed, I found out that the host of the…
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Danger, Will Robinson
When you are chronically ill, hope is a dangerous thing. At first you do. You hope. You hope fiercely. It’s what gets you through so many doctor appointments and awkward procedures and pain-filled days. Hope is what gets you through. But eventually, that hope fades. After going to get the ninth second opinion, your hope…
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Sick Day
I have nothing new to say. The words I’m about to type have been typed by me and many before me. They’re not new, and I hate typing them. I am tired of being sick. I am not just tired of being sick, though. I am tired of being tired. I’m tired of being depressed.…
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80%
I’ve been struggling with a new symptom of whatever non-named autoimmune disorder I have: Immune-Mediated Cognitive Dysfunction. It’s a fancy way of saying I have brain fog. For the last few months, I’ve been noticing that it’s harder for me to read and retain information. I’m more forgetful and sometimes I have difficulty saying words…
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Retrospect
I feel a bit guilty about not writing more about 2014. There is a non-trivial part of me that feels I should have shared more about my adventures in the moment. There is absolutely no arguing that 2014 was an EPIC year for me. It was my first year of marriage. I traveled the world,…
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International Incident
Well fuck. Looks like I’m not going to Eastercon after all. For various reasons, my doctor has asked me not to travel internationally for the next six months or so. I admit, when my doctor brought this up, I laughed. I mean, after last year, now someone is going to ask me to sit still? I’ve…
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A New Normal
You know what’s weird to lack? A daily routine. Most people have some variant of get up, go to work, come home, sleep with a bunch of little personal details. What they eat for breakfast, if they eat breakfast, do they eat with a spouse or on the way to work and etc. That sort of…
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Doctor, Doctor
Turns out I do not, in fact, have a bad case of loving you. I have a bad case of nobody knows what the fuck is up with my body. On the bright side, there is in fact medical terminology for what’s up with my body: Isolated, Idiopathic Colonic Ischemia. Basically the blood stops flowing…
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Performance Anxiety
I want to spend the weekend in Boston. There is a convention there that I very much want to attend – Arisia. At Arisia will be a very high concentration of my friends from all over the US: California, Minnesota, Kansas, Illinois and of course, pretty much the entire Eastern seaboard. I’ve missed all of…
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