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[yendi]

Crap. Woke up, felt like crap. Mildly nauseous, sore throat. Showered anyway (I'm gonna have to get Elayna ready for school, no mater what, and sometimes I feel less sick after being awake for a bit). Then read LJ, and saw that shadesong woke up sick in the middle of the night. Crap. So we've both got something. I think she's got it worse than I do, even, so I won't get any pity nursemaiding out of this. :-(

On the plus side, Neil Gaiman won the Hugo for American Gods. I'd rather have Connie Willis get the award, though, and feel less crappy. Although I strongly suspect the two aren't really connected.

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[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

oogh. maybe you got the Dragon*Con Crud... [i think i got it too, i'm still feeling rather sick.] feel better soon, 'kay? ::hugs::

[skylion.livejournal.com]

feel better, my man.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling similarly. Sometimes lack of sleep does this to me, so I'm hoping I don't have the Dragon*Con bug. But evidence seems to be mounting...

Get better, buddy.

[yendi]

Definitely a DragonCon bug, it sounds like. Feel better yourself.

[rollick.livejournal.com]

Wow, the choice between "American Gods" and "Passage" (I presume, since that's been her only novel in the past few years – I don't pay much attention to the Hugos) is a really hard one. I loved both books, and they're both favorite writers of mine. Rrgh. I can't feel bad about Gaiman winning, but I do think "Passage" was the more ambitious book.

[yendi]

My thoughts exactly. Of course, I know that the Hugos are no less flawed than the Oscars, and various factors -- like the fact that Connie's won lots of times, and Neil's never won -- may have come into play. I thought Passage was clearly the better book, and that American Gods was a tad overrated. But I think Neil's deserved an award for a while (certainly in the short fiction category), and when two great authors are finalists, it's a good year for fiction (and other nominees included a Bujold, and Perdido Street Station, both of which could have won).

[rollick.livejournal.com]

I get so frustrated with the whole he's-never-won-so-he's-due paradigm, though, in any awards field. "Sandman" was great, but giving "American Gods" a Hugo to let Neil know we all liked "Sandman" is just unfair to the other people who wrote good books recently.

But hey, all awards-by-popular-vote have the same problem, so I'm not going to get my panties in a twist about it.