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Lambda Literary announced details of the 2016 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices.

I wonder, should I apply? It's only one week, I can get one week off work easily enough, and scholarships are available...but what I have that I could submit for evaluation (for "craft, creativity and originality") is mostly poetry or "dammit must rewrite this" prose, and I'd want to do the workshop for fiction or nonfiction...but applications are open through the beginning of January...but I'll forget if I don't apply now...

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Riddle me this.

I have an hour before I have to leave for my next place to be. I have nothing to do except homework. (Or, well, I have lots of things to do but homework trumps all for the time being.) Among the homework is a 35min lecture to watch.

Why do I keep thinking I don't have enough time to watch the lecture before I have to leave?

(I mean, I don't want to watch the lecture right now. I want to conserve focus for the thing I have to leave for in an hour, and then for work assuming I go to work today. But those are different things than above.)

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I finished the bath mat! It is...not semicircular. :(

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The eternal tension between "a culture in which magical and psychic abilities are, if not necessarily the norm, certainly encountered at least as often as (say) transgender people: certainly a culture that has a vocabulary for magical and psychic abilities that doesn't rely on metaphor, any more than the vocabulary concerning transgender people relies on metaphor" and "a culture that doesn't actually encounter magical and psychic abilities all that often, contrary to popular belief, and thus doesn't have any vocabulary but metaphor that a generic representative of that culture would be able to easily comprehend". That is, between the culture I'm trying to write and the culture in which my readers live. I could make shit up with reasonable etymological backing (and it'd probably originate in metaphor anyway, truth be told; most English does, afaict), but I'd have to explain all the vocab to the readers.

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MOAR MANDATORY OVERTIME.

I suppose money is good.

ROBOT BODY. WHERE.

Except robot body would probably ALSO have hardware flaws and software bugs. JUST like the squishy versions. :(

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No no no NOT DOING NANO. Not even if that would generate a novel that could get me the Arts Fellow distinction.

Brain, what is WITH you?