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I am about 32 pages from the end of my first-pass revisions -- 32 pages, and two weeks. What I really feel like is pressing through the end as quickly as possible so I can go back and look at how the whole thing balances and fits together, and fix that up. I would really like to take a couple of days off from writing when I'm done with that, but I'm not sure I can afford that luxury.

Went to the MoMA on Saturday; they were having a Van Gogh exhibit, which was unexpectedly crowded (we lined up at 10:30, got an entry ticket for 3:30, got into the exhibit itself at 4:00... and the room must have been right at full capacity; it was hard to move in there.) The Van Goghs were great, of course, but I think I might have appreciated the contemporary art more, just because it was so unfamiliar. And also, I wasn't yet tired from walking around the museum.

Sometimes I get nervous that U.S. culture will accomodate cell phones in a way that I can't easily adapt to. But seriously, using a cell phone in an immersive multimedia experience in an art museum? That is so very not right.

Wiscon!

Last year I failed to be sufficiently organized for WisCon: as a result, I had to skip any late-night things I might have wanted to do in order to get the last bus back to the hotel. Getting the flu, too, might have been just slightly more pleasant if I could have taken an elevator back to my room instead of a taxi. (This sounds like such a hardship, I know. If you are not up to taking a taxi, you are really sick.)

This year I didn't dither so much about going, as I seem to be in an okay position financially, and I really need a vacation, and I can promote my book (but not in a tacky way!) and maybe even deduct it on my taxes? I'm not sure about that.

So, I have my registration all set, WITH dessert, and hotel. Whee. I think this will be the first time I've stayed in the convention hotel since one of the Otakons in high school, which seems very exciting and self-indulgent.

Hmm. And then Middle Sister is graduating from Concordia June 7th, and I need to get to Japan eventually, and mini-book-tour... all my vacation days, gone, gone, gone.

Uncomfortable Reference Questions, 2009 edition.

Winsome third-grader: "Do you have High School Musical? Do you have Jonas Brothers? Do you have Chris Brown? Do you have Madeline? Do you have Hannah Montana? Why did Martin Luther King get shot?"