Big Day Out request

Ok, the big day out is coming up and it occurs to me that I might need a little assistance getting home from Claremont at like 10pm or whenever it finishes. Cam is kind of dubious about driving all that way when he has work the next day. So....is anyone going who would be willing to give me a lift home to maylands or let me crash at their house? I'm small and friendly and fit on most couches!

In other news: I went to gengiscon, it was actually pretty fun in a quiet laid back sort of way. I was on the webcomics panel and to make up for knowing very little made a webpage of all the links that came up. Because I hate going to panels where everyone bandies around all these names and you can never find them later.

Also, I've gotten sick of Safaris stupid rss reader breaking all the time so am going to add more people to my friends list and then create sub-lists I won't check every day. There may be some to-ing and fro-ing as I work out the best system, you are all absolutely forbidden from taking it to heart.

Small things...

An irrational fear I had as I wrote up my Phd is that Mike Slackernerny would beat me. Well not only did that not happen, but he named his daughter after me! (kinda)

Speaking of adorable little redheaded babies, I saw Shayolaura(*) today (plus her mum and grandma) She is HUGE. As in turning into a child rather than a toddler, not obese or 6ft tall or anything :)

Also, I spent all of yesterday writing a story! Which I finished!! And then I showed it to Cam and he was all "I'm not sure a hardbitten starship captain would describe walking corpses as "trundling around"(**)". Bah to that, he just doesn't understand my genius. Though he did help me come up with a better ending. Anyway, I'm going to leave it a bit then maybe go back to it, then maybe show it to other people. My first couple of drafts tend to really suck. I didn't learn to redraft until doing my Phd, maybe that's why I never fulfilled my childhood dream of being a writer...

Somehow, I am coping with the loss of my blog. Though every now and then I feel a twinge of guilt for enjoying lj's convenience.

(*)That doesn't look right...
(**)A constant in all my science fiction is a cheery tone and a high death count.