Random thoughts from my day:

• 09:09 At work. Having a bit of a Monday, but it could be much worse. #fb #
• 09:10 RT @timpratt Ch 1 of Bone Shop is LIVE (along w/some author notes). Read, spread the word, donate if u like. marlamason.net/bones... #
• 09:21 RT @NorwichGrrlNew #Fairyland chapter up! Now with Author's Commentary--like Director's Commentary for books! catherynnemvalente.c... #
• 09:23 RT @lisagrimm RT @arkviste RT @TaraLSF et al. [You, sir, are a putz] Gov. thinks libraries have misled the public: tinyurl.com/nrsap5 #
• 11:20 Buying really cool old books, including our SECOND incunable #fb #
• 11:45 @doctorow Congrats! *joins the chorus of well-wishers* #
• 11:56 My phone has been ringing off the hook this morning. Yikes! Time for lunch. #fb #
• 11:57 @katealexisnyc I think you've figured it out. Updates at 140 characters or less. Try to find followers thru search or people u follow :-) #
• 13:51 RT@MerrileeIAm John MacColl wrote this excellent blog post on orphan works twurl.nl/c80fvc. Problem particularly acute in archives. #
• 14:40 GoogleReader=0. I was ruthless. It felt good. #fb #
• 14:57 Locking in another CDTL essay #
• 15:27 Off to a meeting, then home. #fb #

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• 10:41 This just in: Kittens are still ADORABLE. #

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Random thoughts from my day:

• 21:09 Caitlin's medical appts went well. In shock about losing #MJ #farrah and #ed Mcmahon all at once. *sigh* #
• 07:43 Awake. Off work until Monday, so expect minimal twittering. Busy hanging out with Caitlin and Michael and stuff. :-) #
• 19:24 We got a kitten today! His name is Xander. Pics on FB and LiveJournal. #

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 I watched  for the first time in five years my daughter swallow food by mouth. (I wasnt' able to attend her swallow study) 

We have a long road of practicing in front of us before she'll be able to sit down and eat like we do, but 5 ml of thick liquid each day is a place to start.

It is a good day. 

So, we GOT A KITTEN. :-) 

Or rather, in our house. Meet our new kitten, Xander:

xander

Marie is not terribly pleased, but she is taking it well, with minimal growling and hissing. We're hoping they will be friends in the next few days.

More pics below the cut.( Kitteh! )

Ganked from yuki_onnabecause she expressed it far better than I can:

Fairyland is going to have some company on Mondays: tim_pratt , awesome author extraordinaire, is in the same awful situation with his wife's lay-off that many of us are these days. So he's posting chapters of The Bone Shop, a novella about Marla Mason, the heroine of his urban fantasy series, and asking for donations.

Marla Mason is the chief sorcerer of Felport, a woman who's tangled with gods and monsters and come out on top (if a bit damaged in the process). But she wasn't always a formidable engine of brute force and pragmatism; she started out alone, in a strange city, without allies or any more power than the average teenage runaway on the street. Marla was always willing to do anything necessary to survive, and it didn't take long for her to stumble into a world of magic, danger... and even the occasional moment of grace.

Bone Shop tells the story of Marla's evolution from runaway to sorcerer's apprentice to mercenary magician and beyond. Fans of the urban fantasy series that began with Blood Engines will find surprising secrets revealed about Marla's past, and new readers can meet the character from the very beginning.

Go here for more info and to donate!

1. Today feels like Friday, despite being Thursday, since I didn't go to work today. Caitlin had a couple of appointments at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, to get her button changed and check in with her rehabilitative specialist. Everything went smoothly, thank goodness, and it only took 2 hours to get home, which is pretty standard in Chicagoland at 3pm.

2. Since my week was so shortened, I didn't get much chance to really catch up at work. Yikes. I have a lot of RBMS blogging to do next week. And WisCon follow up, and Chicks Dig Time Lords editing, and annual report writing, and class prepping, and Special Collections 2.0 coming out on Tuesday and and... *falls over ded*

3. This weekend is the one weekend home in four that I have. Last weekend was Charlottesville for RBMS, next weekend is CONvergence, and the weekend after that is ALA in Chicago. Sheesh. No wonder I'm tired.
4. Tomorrow, Caitlin has oral-motor therapy, where I will get to see her eat by mouth for the first time in five years. I'm kind of excited.

5. I'm thinking we should maybe take Cait to see Up this weekend. We'll see if it works out...

ETA: added Special Collections 2.0 reminder 'cause I'm shameless like that.

Random thoughts from my day:

• 09:23 Working on coll. development before heading out to a meeting. Choices are hard. #fb #
• 09:24 RT @spellboundblog #dh09 Ideas about archiving hybrid literary analog/digital collections from saa08: tinyurl.com/69x77y #
• 09:37 @heatherlyshaw @timpratt *hugs* #
• 09:49 Off to an off-campus meeting. #fb #
• 13:52 Back on campus. Time to do some real work. #fb #
• 13:54 RT OCLCRT @resourceshelf UK: A New Project to Learn What it Takes to Archive Blog Content tr.im/pBHf #fb #
• 15:52 Wheeling, dealing, and trying to buy some really cool old books. Also prepping for CONvergence #cvg2009 The 2 aren't related (much) #fb #
• 16:24 RT @Jodyth RT @marshallk: The Day Facebook Changed Forever: Messages to Become Public By Default bit.ly/18mi52 #fb #
• 18:52 Dinner consumed, dishes done, garbage out. Now to relax. aaaahhhh. #fb #

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Random thoughts from my day:

• 08:12 At work. Ingesting caffeine while watching transformation of reading room (we're getting new carpeting!) #fb #
• 08:15 Child is home sick today. Barfy Caitlin was barfy at 5:30 am. There is not enough coffee... #fb #
• 10:15 My Chicks Dig Time Lords Essay *might* be a tear-jerker. You have been warned. #fb #
• 10:17 RT @jessamyn Columbus Library pulls out all the stops: their libraries are in danger of closing. Spread the word bit.ly/B7IJ7 #fb #
• 10:22 RT @lisagrimm Mark Gatiss remembers the best of the Dr Who novels before the return to TV: is.gd/1ahlN #fb #
• 12:49 Back from a meeting across campus. Sweet zombie jeebus, it's hot out there! #
• 12:55 RT @neilhimself Foolish, bad Governor Strickland: Libraries are essential. Read & RT bit.ly/ohiofail and links #saveohiolibraries #fb #
• 13:21 Ruthlessly weeding my Google Reader, which I had not opened in a week. #fb #

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I hereby present the joint Thomas family schedule for CONvergence. ( Read 'em and weep ) See you there?

ETA: added handy-dandy LJ cut

Random thoughts from my day:

• 20:23 Home from #rbms09 at last, after a detail to see family for Father's Day. It's good to be home.#fb #
• 10:59 RT @jay_lake RT @roncharles: A literary scholar worries about what writers will leave behind in a paperless world. bit.ly/7xSJi #
• 11:00 Awake. Will be back at work this pm and evening. *yawns* #fb #
• 13:58 At work. Travel paperwork submitted, time to prep for tonight's class and reply to a bunch of emails. #
• 15:08 @daviddlevine Bravo! #
• 15:26 RT @spellboundblog Beautiful write up of how archives can capture our world for future generations: tinyurl.com/l4j9ne #fb #
• 15:49 Prepping for tonight's class. #
• 16:31 Heading home for dinner before tonight's class. #fb #

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Back from the RBMS preconference. It went well. I am tired.

Will blog detailed version over next few weeks on my other blog.

*wanders off to cuddle hubby*

Random thoughts from my day:

• 07:09 RT @archivesnext NARA is finally getting on YouTube: www.youtube.com/USNa... #archives #
• 07:09 Awake. Heading out in search of caffeine. #fb #

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• 06:25 At #rbms09, heading to the scholarship breakfast #fb #

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Random thoughts from my day:

• 21:25 Back from teaching. I'm tired. *thud* #
• 21:25 Would it be wrong to go out and buy and consume an entire ice cream cake? *ponders* #fb #
• 07:23 Heading out to the airport. Offline till Sunday. Y'all play nice, now... #

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Random thoughts from my day:

• 21:17 Packed for #rbms09. Long day at work tomorrow, so needed to finish tonight. Watching #mythbusters blow stuff up. #fb #
• 09:00 At work. Committing administrivia. #fb #
• 09:21 RT @NorwichGrrl #Fairyland live! Read adventures w/ leopards, fairies, & customs agents! Read free, pay if u can! tinyurl.com/mbpvur #
• 09:25 Autographing 200+ letters to the Friends of the NIU LIbraries. The glamour. #fb #
• 11:23 @michaellorg COOOOOL. Rare book librarian approves! #
• 11:25 RT @infodoodads ala joblist twitter feed: twitter.com/ALA_JobLIST #fb #
• 12:14 Last chance to post discussion questions to the #rbms09 wiki: bit.ly/QJSfU
  #fb #
• 13:47 #rbms09 folder of doom compiled. *crosses off list* Time to prep for tonight's class and poke CDTL contributors #fb #
• 14:25 Books for tonight's class pulled. Syllabi copied. Checklist complete. We're ready to go. #fb #
• 15:06 Chicks Who Dig Time Lords have been pinged. I should probably work on my essay...#fb #
• 16:07 Brain done for now. Must recharge for tonight's class. #fb #
• 16:09 @archivesnext got it and responded. :-) #
• 16:21 @russelldjames I often ask if there's anything about the job/institution that they want me to know that they didn't have a chance to tell me #

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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is a book that was mentioned in Valente's novel Palimpsest as having been read by one of the novel's main characters.

Catherynne had no plans to write this book. However, her family's finances suffered a hit in the current economy. As a way of producing some additional writing income, she has decided to publish one chapter at a time of this YA novel.

It is her hope that those who like the book will be inclined to give, but the book itself is given freely, and you can even download audio of her reading the first chapter.

Just as Early Modern authors had patrons that funded the creation of their art, Valente is hoping that her readers will do the same, creating a modern-day, distributed model of patronage. The SF community is tightly-knit enough that this experiment has now been widely distributed, having been BoingBoinged, along with twittered by Neil Gaiman.

Full disclosure: I am Catherynne's archivist, and I consider myself a friend, so I have a vested interest in the survival of her work in all of its forms, and in her general well-being so that she can keep working. I am also a huge fan of her writing, and would like to see as much incentive as possible for her to keep creating.

To put it baldly, I think that *all* writers deserve to eat, but that goes double for writers that produce awesome stuff like Cat does.

So, please go read the story. If you feel so inclined, donate.

Thanks.


ETA: changed some words around.

Random thoughts from my day:

• 08:25 Laundry. Up waaay too early with Cait. She's fine, but up early. *sigh* #

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1. Today is the ten-year-anniversary of michaeldthomas and I moving in together. I cannot believe this amazing man has put up with me for this long. I'm a *very* lucky girl.

2. Laundry, packing, prep for RBMS today. Tomorrow I work all day and then teach tomorrow night. *sigh* It's been a wee bit hectic. I'm looking forward to the conference, but I'm dubious about how restful it will be...

3. Woke up way to early this am with Cait coughing up snot. The good news is, all that came up was snot--she didn't barf (this is progress). However, the coughing happened at around ten to 6. *yawns*

4. Duckon was fun. Had a nice dinner with smokingpigeon, and got to see shsilver seanan_maguire, dianafox and taraljc, Jody Lynn Nye, and Rich Chwedyk as well.

5. Our microwave, which has been part of my life since before michaeldthomas was, finally gave up the ghost. We must now buy a new one. I'm impressed that it lasted this long, but I'm hoping that the next one will be all energy-efficient and stuff.

Exciting, innit?