*blink*

[yendi]

I just did seven ten-minute presentations in a row.

Gah. Mind you, it was fun telling the incoming grad students all about our LMS, and it was rewarding, but man, that's much. We're talking less than a minute between sessions, too.

And this afternoon, I'll be leading a discussion of Fun Home for incoming freshmen. And getting to meet the author. I do not promise that I'll be able to avoid fanboying.

Shorter version: Life's good, but hella busy at this time of the year.

Comments

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

You get to meet Alison Bechdel?!

Yeah, I'd have a hard time not fanboying too. Ask her how her home and town are doing after Irene came thru.

[yendi]

I hadn't realized she was in the path. Hunh.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

She lives in Vermont. Vermont got drenched, and then some. She may literally not be able to get home until they fix a few roads (or she may be one of the lucky ones who are still connected).

My parents, for example, live up on a hill, so they're okay, but they'll be helping re-construct the plot where the local farmers' market is held. It was by a brook, and now it has major erosion ruts making it impassable.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

wait wait wait HOW DID YOU NOT TELL ME YOU WERE MEETING BECHDEL?

[yendi]

I didn't tell you? Seriously? Now I know why you didn't seem that impressed about my doing the class book thing this year.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I mean, I think it's a great book. I did say that. But I thought you were just talking about a book, not meeting Alison Freakin' Bechdel.

[yendi]

Yeah, part of the book program involves bringing in the author (why I got to meet Junot Diaz two years back, too).

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

EVERYTHING SONG JUST SAID GOES FOR ME TOO. I mean, you *live* with her so it's a more egregious omission, but still! I put that book on the Senior reading list this year.

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to join the OMG BECHDEL SQUEE PANTSWET train, really. Because that's wildly awesome and I just read Fun Home and then set about pestering J with it mercilessly.

I'd always loved Dykes, and I picked up Fun Home on a whim at a remainder bookstore. Dayum.

[yendi]

She's working on a new graphic bio, too (this time focused on her mother)!