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[liv]

[As we used to say back on LJ: Been Away, Not Kept Up with Reading, Please Tell Me if You Posted Anything I Need To See.] It's not actually as bad as it used to be now that we have smartphones, I think I'm actually more or less caught up with LJ and DW, but I've been skimming. And I have been feeling semi-withdrawn from my online life, I've not followed Twitter or FB where the more real-time updates tend to be these days, but equally there's no point reading back when you've been out of contact for a while. I've not been commenting on posts or even cogitating and sparking ideas off them as I usually do. So I would definitely appreciate it if you pointed me to anything significant, either thinky or in the big life news vein, from the last couple of weeks.

My August has looked like this:

• New PhD student starting in my lab
• Long weekend with jack's family in Shropshire, with good food and the proper hiking I've been missing and time for sitting reading.
• Long weekend in west Wales with angelofthenorth and gwyddno, with a different style of appreciating beautiful countryside and eating good food and all kinds of memorable experiences.
• Exchanging contracts on the house I'm buying with jack
• Worldcon, which is when I really started falling offline. I definitely do want to write up the con but the summary is I had a great time socially, including meeting some new people from DW *waves*, whereas the actual programming did not inspire me.
• rysmiel visiting for a few days, which was extremely wonderful and felt, as their visits do, like a holiday out of time.
• Long weekend in Cambridge seeing jack and my parents, and a production of Much Ado about Nothing.

And there isn't much of the month left but I'm hoping in the next few days to actually buy a house (if all goes smoothly, which it should at this point, tomorrow), and to go away for a few days actual holiday with jack.

And it's Elul, how on earth did it get to be Elul? That means I have less than a month until the High Holy Days and the start of the new academic year both hit at the same time. So I'm not absolutely promising more content here in the coming weeks, but I would very much like to get back to participating properly in my online communities.

Comments

[sfred]

It was great to meet you. Welcome back!

[liv]

Thank you! I am sorry I introduced myself so ineffectually, but you worked it out in the end and it was great to chat to you.

[metaphortunate]

Oh, who are you on Twitter?

[liv]

individeweal :-)

Okay...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Latest story is "Up the Water Spout."

This month's Poetry Fishbowl was on "flexible truths," and published poems are linked in that report.

Next Poetry Fishbowl will be Tuesday, Sept. 2 on "healing & growth."

[liv]

Thank you, links to poetry are always good, cos that's the kind of thing I'm likely to miss if I'm skimming for news-type updates.

You're welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Any time you want poetry, you can click the "poem" tag in my blog. There's usually something new.