Books in January

[starfishstar]

Oh dear, I'm such a dork for 1) doing this, 2) being this excited about this and 3) being so excited about this that I'm actually bragging about it in public, but I've been reading a bunch this month, and when I realized the goal of 10 books in one month was in sight, I set myself about accomplishing it...and I just did it, just turned the last page of the 10th book right now.

Not quite 40 books in all of last year, and then 10 just this month! Heh. It's not a pace I could keep up under normal circumstances, but right now (moving, starting over in a new/old place, everything in flux) it's been a nice sort of through-line, while all else is chaos.

Don't hold me to the same for February, though!

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[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

So, update: Not going to Germany! It's a confluence of factors, but mainly the fact that the conference my guy is going to can't cover his airfare if he flies back more than a couple of days after the actual conference ends, but if I were going to join him I couldn't even arrive until after the conference (because the conference is the week before our Spring Break, and he can cancel class to be an invited speaker at a conference, but I probably shouldn't cancel class just to go on vacation, lol).

That plus the fact that I am stretched so thin this semester working on other projects and getting ready for Japan that I haven't even, for example, caught up at rt_morelove, or read the end of Lantern or checked out your newer fics -- just to name a few examples! So it's probably just as well that I should stay here over Spring Break and catch up.

(Also, airfares, gah! So expensive! And stupid connect times from Expedia -- if I'm changing planes in Detroit to fly to Europe, I want more than a 49-minute layover, thank you very much.)

Kate Martinelli, noted. That might be something to do for fun when my guy is in Germany without me. :)

[starfishstar]

Oh, that's too bad! ...But actually sounds like a good decision. Staying in and catching up and getting down time can also be a good way to spend a vacation! (I still don't know how you manage to have an active fandom/online life on top of having an actual career – as opposed to those of us who are just sort of faffing about at the moment...) And letting yourself have this time to focus on Japan instead sounds good, too! I'll look forward to hearing about Japan, if you want to post about it, then or after.

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

(I still don't know how you manage to have an active fandom/online life on top of having an actual career – as opposed to those of us who are just sort of faffing about at the moment...)

*sigh* This would be why I'm so sporadic online. It is hard to keep up! I'm just glad I didn't discover online fandom until shortly before it was time to go up for tenure...that could have been dangerous.

A lot of times it's fic (writing or reading) vs. housework, and sometimes the fic wins. ;)

I do expect to post about Japan -- assuming I get my act together to do it (I still have two picspams backlogged that I want to post even just for my own archival purposes, grr.) And I'm sure you have way more interesting things to do than read LJ back-issues, but if you're really bored someday, I do have a few posts (http://shimotsuki.livejournal.com/tag/japan) from the last time I was there, which seems to have been in (yikes) 2009.