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T-minus 1 day and counting for DragonCon – final fittings are done for the Skyrim & Attack on Titan cosplays. WeLoveFine came through with the Hawkeye/Black Widow kawaii design, which was delivered Monday night, \o/. My toes have acquired a fannishly-appropriate (and fun!) pedicure with OPI's You're Such A (Buda)pest for times when they are not covered in cosplay boots. (I swear, if anybody actually realizes I'm wearing this, you will all hear my squeal of delight, because I am waaaay too tickled by the combination of color and name.) At 10 last night, I decided to throw in a dress & accoutrements (including stuffed octopus) for possible Domesticated Cephalopod attire at the Mechanical Masquerade on Sunday, so that was an added scramble.
BabyBoy had minor outpatient surgery yesterday, so I spent the day working from various pre- and post-op waiting rooms at Children's Hospital (he's totally fine, nothing to worry about, we just crammed it in this week because the surgeon had a cancellation.)
I still need to cancel a couple of the fall-back hotels and figure out what food to haul down with us to keep the HoB from starving and/or destroying my budget with emergency calls to Room Service.
Wednesday Book Meme
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Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake, Sarah MacLean, which I finished...but I'm not sure why. I didn't really not like it, but it really wasn't doing it for me either. The characterizations never gelled for me, in a lot of little ways. I think that was it—there were lots of little things that were off about it, everything from men wearing the wrong clothes to balls (dear lord, I actually know what people are supposed to wear out and about during the Regency era; that blasted Regency AU I wrote for the SPN Big Bang is never getting out of my head, is it?) to not being able to picture the ugly-duckling-to-swan gown, despite many paragraphs of description (and let's not get into the undergarments and how they were off, too, my undying thanks to Mary Robinette Kowal and her active demonstration of Regency-era unmentionables at the best DragonCon panel ever) and mostly that I just did not CARE about Callie's list of "scandalous" things to do. Most of them involved pretending to be a man or doing things that men do, which is not anything about who she, as a character, is. Sigh. And this came so highly recommended, too.
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Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi, which I just stuck in my bag, so I have no opinion on it yet, exept that I'm really looking forward to it.
next
The library just coughed up The Black-Eyed Blonde and The Miseducation of Cameron Post, so I should probably be looking at those two next, but who really knows…?
BabyBoy had minor outpatient surgery yesterday, so I spent the day working from various pre- and post-op waiting rooms at Children's Hospital (he's totally fine, nothing to worry about, we just crammed it in this week because the surgeon had a cancellation.)
I still need to cancel a couple of the fall-back hotels and figure out what food to haul down with us to keep the HoB from starving and/or destroying my budget with emergency calls to Room Service.
Wednesday Book Meme
finished
Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake, Sarah MacLean, which I finished...but I'm not sure why. I didn't really not like it, but it really wasn't doing it for me either. The characterizations never gelled for me, in a lot of little ways. I think that was it—there were lots of little things that were off about it, everything from men wearing the wrong clothes to balls (dear lord, I actually know what people are supposed to wear out and about during the Regency era; that blasted Regency AU I wrote for the SPN Big Bang is never getting out of my head, is it?) to not being able to picture the ugly-duckling-to-swan gown, despite many paragraphs of description (and let's not get into the undergarments and how they were off, too, my undying thanks to Mary Robinette Kowal and her active demonstration of Regency-era unmentionables at the best DragonCon panel ever) and mostly that I just did not CARE about Callie's list of "scandalous" things to do. Most of them involved pretending to be a man or doing things that men do, which is not anything about who she, as a character, is. Sigh. And this came so highly recommended, too.
now
Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi, which I just stuck in my bag, so I have no opinion on it yet, exept that I'm really looking forward to it.
next
The library just coughed up The Black-Eyed Blonde and The Miseducation of Cameron Post, so I should probably be looking at those two next, but who really knows…?
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Hope to see you sooooon!
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Safe travels!!
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