Dear Collective Brain,

I have 5 honeydew melons. Any ideas as to what to do with them? I can maybe account for three... maybe.

 Kage Baker has passed on. Is there any one who would like to do a retrospective of her works for a panel at Swancon?

I have installed it again. I'm using my oldest account of Callisto.Shampoo
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feel free to add me

BIDS FOR SWANCON 2012 WILL BE PRESENTED THIS SWANCON!

Have you ever thought about running a convention? Have you ever thought about being part of a 2 year project with great opportunities to make new friends and learn new skills?

WASFF WANTS YOU!

Every year bids are announced during the WASFF meeting at Swancon, and a committee is selected by the community to run a convention 2 years hence. If you have any fantastic ideas for themes, locations, changes, excitement, then please do consider coming together with likeminded souls to form a committee. If you've always wanted to take part, but aren't certain about what role you can fulfil, or just feeling a bit shy, then contact us and we'd love to talk to you.

A Swancon bid needs a minimum of a Convenor, a Treasurer, and a Secretary, and hopefully an idea. You need to do a three minute talk to the attending members (whoever drags themselves out of bed on that morning!) An idea or vision is a great way to get people on board, and if you can explain it well I'd love to see what you can see. You also have a good percentage of the convention to talk to people and see what they think of your idea, and get more offers of help or assistance!

Swancon is an excellent training ground for some very important skills. Concoms can be as big or as small as the convention needs, so there is always places for enthusiastic, willing people to help out during the 2 years in advance, or at the Convention itself.

If you have any questions or queries, please don't hesitate to contact WASFF, Sarah or Ju, or any WASFF Board Member you know and ask. Questions are welcome!



Sarah's email address is callisto at gmail dot com, and Mynxii's email address is transcendancing at gmail dot com.

http://sly-girl.livejournal.com/738145.html

They've deleted the Aboriginal flag from the winning artwork for Australia Day.

ETA apparently google did ask permission to use it, but the person who owns the copyright wanted payment/denied them or something. So they did *try*
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It lurches, it stumbles, it's ALIVE!!!!!

To translate: the Egoboo group did the Aus Spec Fic Carnival this month of January. Go and see what sort of conversations we've all been having with each other and ourselves, and don't forget to link us anything you want to put into next month's carnival! 

I think I ate too much Zombie Salad last night. I finished it off. I think. I call it Zombie Salad because it just kept on going! We had it as a green salad on the first night, but then there were left overs. So on night 2, we added more mushrooms and tomato and stuff, and had it with dinner. Night three there were still left overs, so added more tomato, fetta, sultanas... stuff. And last night I added some oven baked pumpkin and salad dressing, and gobbled it all up with cold silverside with caramelised onion. Mmmmm good.

Made 108 cookies, spent over an hour on the wiifit, decluttered, cleaned, read books, played with water, emailed friends, cooked, cleaned more, played more, and had a lovely day with the kids. Oh, and I organized more stuff.

It feels like a lot.
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The 108 cookies I am particularly proud of. We started at 4:30 and finished them all by 5:30. Maple syrup and oat, date and walnut, and chocolate chip ones.
We have food in the house again! Woo!

Torchlight is once again available for $5 USD at Steam.
:D

Enjoy! 

Please don't forget the Egoboo group is doing the Aus Spec Fic Carnival this month ! If you know of any articles, posts, discussions, launch announcements, anything that is Aus Spec Fic related, then please post a comment here, there, or email me. (CALLISTO AT G MAIL DOT COM)

:D

I started the meme where I go through my last ten years, but an awful lot happened in the last ten years which I can't speak about.
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( Stolen from Dr K )

Merry Christmas for tomorrow, except Linstar, who gets Happy Birthday instead!

Goodnight all! 

Santa is flying!

Thanks to Norad for the live pics!

Merry Christmas Every One!

 

It must be time for me to get back into the novel.
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V:  Can I have a shower?
Me: No, Daddy's already run the bath.
V: PLease may I have a shower?" *hopeful smile* J can have a bath and I can have a shower!
Me: No, Daddy's already run the bath, and we don't want to waste any more water.
V: You're very cruel.
Me: You'll survive.

It begins!
 

Inkyblots has done December's AusSpecFicCarnival (try saying that in a hurry!) and I'm in it! Go and check it out! There's heaps of stuff in there, and guess who's going to be doing January/s Aus Spec Fic Carnival? The Egobooers of course! Bwhahahahaha!

So if you see *anything* you think should be part of the January Aus Spec Fic Carnival (gosh that's a mouthful) then please drop me an email, comment on the blog, SMS me, or whatever. I dare all of you to send me a link! (Email address is callisto at gmail dot com. Australia has an awesomely vibrant and alive Spec Fic community, and I want every one to know!

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/12/i-kodak.html

Someone was getting into Kodak for supporting the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), and Kodak responded with the best ever smackdown.

Have a look for a bit of a giggle.

Other Egoboo writers are starting to put up their introductions too! Check it out!

Friends in crime Joanna Fay and Satima Flavell have done theirs now!

I skipped afew days. Eh, tough.
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- Linstar's surprise birthday party made me happy!
- Sharkbait declaring today was Christmas... for the third morning in a row
- the tickles of my hair down my back as it gets longer and longer
- writing for egoboo is making me happy too! How odd!
- bejeweled. (Yes, it's still my fallow week. No judgements allowed! )

Tada!

A couple of weeks ago, a bunch of aspiring authors headed down to EagleBay to do some serious critting work on their novels. I haven't talked a lot about it, as it was a complete unknown for me, but the experience was incredible. We've all come back brimming with ideas and enthusiasm, and one of the things we're doing is writing a group blog. The blog is hopefully to help other writers do crit retreats and be generally helpful. A huge thank you to ROR for the ideas, all their help, and their support in advice, time, and emails.

The new blog is called Egoboo WA, a bit of a fannish joke based on how we write for the egoboo(st). We kept the numbers down, and every one had to have already finished their novel. We spent four weeks critiquing them, but weren't allowed to talk about them until we sat down for the crits.

The whole process has been a fascinating learning curve. I'm hanging out with people who have a much more impressive writing career than myself, and people who have identified as writers for much longer than me. This is pretty much an official coming out, of declaring to the world that I'm a writer, and that I'm serious about it now. Bit of a surprise. I thought we were just setting up a group blog!

Anyway, with five of us to contribute, there should be something new every few days. We're still ironing this out, and it's still in it's infancy, but please come along with us for the ride. Welcome to the Egoboo WA blog!