It's Perfectly Fine To Sleep In a Chair From Monday to Saturday

[snurri]

ITEM THE FIRST: Alice Sola Kim is one of my favorite writers. She has a mind-bendy new story about obsession, euthanasia, and body-stealing over at Strange Horizons. Go read We Love Deena.

ITEM THE SECOND: The above is an example of a plug. On Friday I asked y'all to plug your work, and a few of you did. Not many, though, so I'm asking you again. Go to that post and tell me what you've got that we should all be picking up and/or waiting for with bated breath.

ITEM THE THIRD: Irony lives! After voting for the front-runner in Dr. L's poll (see sidebar), I am now reading two-count-'em-two books about vampires: Mr. Westerfeld's Peeps and Sergei Lukyanenko's Nightwatch. Two very different approaches, and I'm enjoying them both.

ITEM THE FOURTH: I miss the sun. It's me vs. February, and February is winning. Next year at this time I think I'm going to try to get out of this hemisphere. Maybe Argentina, maybe Kenya. Maybe I'm dreaming and I can't afford either. It's nice to think about, though.

Comments

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I definitely will do that. We'll see; the airfare alone may well defeat me.

Actually, I have one question right off the bat: when's the best time to go?

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

I was there from December to June, roughly. The rainy season was mostly a bust, but I got to see things green up in some parts of the country. I would go in the off-season, whatever that really is (I am not sure, as I was not there as a tourist), and after the rainy season in winter/spring, so that things will be really alive and hopping. Also, the migration goes one direction in April, so seeing that is pretty amazing, I hear. We missed it by a couple of days, unfortunately.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Cool. Rainy season = ? Winter for us?

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

I think so. Late winter, early spring.