Difficult class, this one is. Exhausting, but also rewarding -- they won't let us
(the instructors) get away with anything, but they're asking difficult questions
because they want to know, not just to be difficult.
I keep thinking
other jobs would be easier, and then having to remind myself they all have their
challenges. And even if I could persuade Rudder I should stay at home, I don't
have any kids, or any projects or home businesses I'd want to work on. Not only
would I feel guilty, I'd eventually get fidgety, wanting to get things *done*. Not
true for everyone, I know, but I think it would be for me.
Weekend after next, I think I am going to do
something I've never done. Though I've been reading fantasy and SF since I learned
to read at age 3 (literally, since Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was one of my first
books) I've never yet been to a con. But someone I work with occasionally turned
out to be a RPG-er and SF fan, as I expected (you can generally tell, somehow) and
informed me yesterday that there's a con voming up in town with Charles de Lint as
the Guest of Honor. Given his presence, I'm wondering now if Emma Bull and Will
Shetterley might also show up -- I learned only a week ago that they now live in
this state. So I'll need to double-check whether her info is correct, but if it is
and if my travel schedule doesn't conflict, I think I might go.
Is
there some central web site with info on F&SF cons?