Footnotes to the Autographing
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pameladeanCaroline lent me a pen, which I forgot to give back.
Stella and I talked about tofu. Marissa and Pat and Caroline talked about copy-editing. Don had a huge stack of the reprints and got me to sign them all; this means they can't be returned. He doesn't return much stuff anyway, but it was nice, as it always is.
My mother's friend Helen came in and bought the first two books of the trilogy for her granddaughter, who is eleven.
Instead of buying books by the next slate of autographers, I bought Ursula LeGuin's new collection of essays and John M. Ford's new collection of stories and poetry. I looked for the third Riddle-master book, having discovered when I was assembling reading for California that ours has vanished; but like us, Hugo's had the first two. I know what happens, but I want the third one anyway.
In the car on the way to the restaurant, we were discussing why the bass line of music that Lydy plays in her bedroom can be heard quite so insistently in my room. I suggested that the waterbed might transmit sound into the wall, might even amplify it. David said the amplification wasn't possible since energy wasn't being added. "It's a heated waterbed," I said facetiously. He gave me the hairy eyeball and said, "Heat can't pass from the cooler to the hotter," and then he and Lydy did the whole routine, ending up with a rousing, "And that's a physical law!" Then they talked about less-successful Flanders and Swann routines. In the restaurant we had a little gossip and talked about The Book of the New Sun, via Gene Wolfe's rules for writing.
It's a gray sloppy day, but not very cold. This is the time of year when winter and spring have a kind of shoving contest.
Pamela
Stella and I talked about tofu. Marissa and Pat and Caroline talked about copy-editing. Don had a huge stack of the reprints and got me to sign them all; this means they can't be returned. He doesn't return much stuff anyway, but it was nice, as it always is.
My mother's friend Helen came in and bought the first two books of the trilogy for her granddaughter, who is eleven.
Instead of buying books by the next slate of autographers, I bought Ursula LeGuin's new collection of essays and John M. Ford's new collection of stories and poetry. I looked for the third Riddle-master book, having discovered when I was assembling reading for California that ours has vanished; but like us, Hugo's had the first two. I know what happens, but I want the third one anyway.
In the car on the way to the restaurant, we were discussing why the bass line of music that Lydy plays in her bedroom can be heard quite so insistently in my room. I suggested that the waterbed might transmit sound into the wall, might even amplify it. David said the amplification wasn't possible since energy wasn't being added. "It's a heated waterbed," I said facetiously. He gave me the hairy eyeball and said, "Heat can't pass from the cooler to the hotter," and then he and Lydy did the whole routine, ending up with a rousing, "And that's a physical law!" Then they talked about less-successful Flanders and Swann routines. In the restaurant we had a little gossip and talked about The Book of the New Sun, via Gene Wolfe's rules for writing.
It's a gray sloppy day, but not very cold. This is the time of year when winter and spring have a kind of shoving contest.
Pamela
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Date: 2004-03-06 04:07 pm (UTC)I really think I'm done commenting now. Oh, wait, no, I'm not: what kind of pictures indicate that David has had a good time? Okay, now I'm done, or we'll never have any dinner.
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Date: 2004-03-06 04:24 pm (UTC)Oh no, now it's stuck in my head. "Yeah, that's entropy, maan!...."
moi
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Date: 2004-03-06 07:52 pm (UTC)Pretty much any pictures that make it into the snapshot album indicate that David has had a good time, though some are more indicative than others.
Pamela
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Date: 2004-03-06 07:53 pm (UTC)David and I quote Dorothy Sayers at one another, but cuteness is less scary when one is part of it rather than a witness.
Pamela
Tofu!
Date: 2004-03-06 08:21 pm (UTC)It was *wonderful* getting to talk to you and David and Lydy: must plan for dinner with us provided you are not allergic to cats (if you are, we can do dinner out, our treat).
Let me know: my email is transketolase (at) yahoo (dot) com
(OK, yes, biochemistry geek.)
Re: Tofu!
Date: 2004-03-06 10:38 pm (UTC)Unsurprisingly, my recipe has wandered from the original. But I still need the cookbook for the proportions, and I can't find it. I'll have a hunt round for it tomorrow.
I very much enjoyed talking to you, too.
Pamela
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Date: 2004-03-06 11:37 pm (UTC)moi
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Date: 2004-03-07 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-07 06:46 am (UTC)I also have couple of Peter Dickinsons for you.
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Date: 2004-03-07 10:46 am (UTC)With regard to the trilogy, if you want to shove all three of them off onto me, that's fine. I mean, it would save you having to get rid of them some other way.
Meh.
Pamela
Sorry I missed you...
Date: 2004-03-07 11:27 am (UTC)Looking at the names of the folks who were in the interim hour, I'm reminded of how very much I'm behind in even making a pretense of vaguely keeping up with such things; I don't know that I've ever come across anything that any of them have written.
Re: Sorry I missed you...
Date: 2004-03-07 12:27 pm (UTC)I've heard of most of the people who were signing between my time slot and yours, and even have some of their books, but I haven't read them. The only time I was ever caught up on the field was when I belonged to SFWA and regularly did Nebula recommendations. But that was too hard on my nerves. I'm sure there is some middle course.
Pamela
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Date: 2004-03-08 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-09 10:59 am (UTC)*happy sigh* yes, exactly. not to get all goopy on you, but i love reading what you write.