Angelic Eye for the Gendered-Species Individual

11:35: midway through the dark forest of my week
*deep breath*

Weekend just past: Congrés Boréal. A very great deal of fun. Hanging out with papersky, grimmwire, tournevis, James Morrow, David Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, Michael Swanwick, Karl Schroeder and lots of other cool people. I kind of headached out on Sunday and had to go home and lie down, and had no brain for anything more demanding than Harry Potter, which was a real irritant.

Weekend to come: janetmk visiting; the Plan is to go to Plattsburgh on Saturday, and activate our permanent-resident visas on the way back in. I am trying with mild-to-moderate success not to fret myself into a small cinder about this. As a gesture of faith that there will one day be lemon-soaked paper napkins all will go smoothly with the visa stuff, I have invited my interns to dim sum Sunday morning.

papersky has a new computer, and the monitor that came with it was switched onto the media-watching computer at home on Monday; this dislodged a sound card, and Z spent much of yesterday evening fixing that and related things, so we have not yet got to watch The Year of Living Dangerously or 49th Parallel.

Workwise, I would seem to finally be getting somewhere with what $boss1 actually wants from the detailed report on how we could transfer Louse-related stuff to some other institution before the middle of 2010; there is to be a meeting on that towards the end of next week. Also, the long-delayed useful seminar actually happened, and was indeed useful. We are finally through to the manual curation part of the current Louse release, a mere two months late. I am glad I have such wonderful family and friends, or I might be starting to feel rather down.