02.03.12 | Gaming and Fiction…Can You Do That?

Posted in General at 3:05 pm by Catherine Schaff-Stump

And then...the weekend. This weekend I'll be running the last of a two-year-old gaming campaign set in the Changeling universe. This would be my second Changeling campaign. I doubt very much that items from this campaign will make it into my fiction, but items from the last campaign certainly did. And while I'm thinking about [...]

02.01.12 | Two Links and Turning Points

Posted in General at 12:42 pm by Catherine Schaff-Stump

Hmmm. I had planned to write a piece on the State of the Union speech, and the Republican candidates, but probably one thing has happened that illustrates the State of the Union pretty well. I will warn you--for those of you without firm retirement plans, it will sound a bit like whining, so you may [...]

01.30.12 | Notable Hugo Reading

Posted in General at 2:14 pm by Catherine Schaff-Stump

As you know, I'm nominating for the Hugos this year. I keep telling you that, so you know. And because of that, I've gotten a lot of good fiction to read. I wanted to note some standout stories in the batch of good stories I've read. These stories have really made me think, or more [...]

01.29.12 | The Constant Companion

Posted in General at 8:11 pm by Catherine Schaff-Stump

I'm not sure what kind of fate it is that makes me sicker after 4 days of resting to get rid of this flu, but here we are. However, it is imperative that I return to work tomorrow, so I will. It will be an interesting week, I think. Don't worry, if this continues, I [...]

01.26.12 | Flu, Great Leveller of Man

Posted in General at 7:14 am by Catherine Schaff-Stump

Bryon was talking to his mother last night. Turns out she'd had the flu for about 3 days. It was a weird flu. When you ate something, your stomach hurt, not with the usual nausea of flu, but you know, like if you'd eaten sour apples and were paying for that particular sin. There were [...]

01.25.12 | Adult, Hardcore

Posted in General at 2:37 pm by Catherine Schaff-Stump

Stepping in for a moment. My apologies to you, o faithful reader, for not supplying you with sufficiently writerly or geeky content. We're almost done with the second week of the new semester, so I have been constantly talking to students and instructors at work. It may surprise you that most of my Internet life [...]

01.20.12 | Imaginary Landscapes

Posted in General at 8:07 pm by Catherine Schaff-Stump

Thanks to Paper Golem, I now have a story in a hardback book. Cucurbital 2 has been published as a hardback. That's kind of nifty. You should go buy the book, not so much for my story, but to see the interesting ways in which people combine watermelon, turtles, and sex workers into something viable. [...]

01.18.12 | Call Your Congressional Representative

Posted in General at 9:32 am by Catherine Schaff-Stump

01.17.12 | The Zen of Patience

Posted in General at 7:04 pm by Catherine Schaff-Stump

Holy squash pancakes, Batman! That was a harrowing day! I've been harrowed. When they say 100 percent snow and ice covered, they mean 100 percent snow and ice covered. *** Yesterday we had teacher in-service and today was the first day of classes. I have two pretty full classes this semester: Fundamentals of Grammar and [...]

01.13.12 | Bits from the Bottom of the Drawer

Posted in General at 3:33 pm by Catherine Schaff-Stump

Today has been a bit of a wrangle. I've subbed for the office front staff, since one of them is out ill today, and I've been answering the phone for me and the department. And I've been calling references, and troubleshooting in all other ways, so it's been INTENSE until this very moment. I thought [...]

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