I'm in Michigan!

[yendi]

I'm at Resnet! The conference is the usual disorganized clusterfuck, but the swag so far has been nice -- I've already got a nice pen, a mini stuffed bulldog (which will be Elayna's, soon), a nice glass, a tie-die shirt, and, at the O'Reilly-sponsored lunch tomorrow, we'll apparently get a free book and shirt from them. The grand-prize drawing after the conference is for an Ehron chair, too. :-)

And I'm remember how much staying in a dorm in college sucked ass.

Plane ride was fine. Aside from The Longest Fucking Line ever at security. It went literally to the back of the rear atrium in Hartsfield. And there were four parallel lines that long! Sheesh.

I finished the best children's book of the year on the plane ride up here. And no, it wasn't a book that was released today. :-) It was Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men, and it's not even fair to compare it to a Rowling book. Pratchett has entered the Diana Wynne Jones realm.

It's time to head downstairs for the shuttles to the opening banquet. Free food, here I come! Longer update later.

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[yendi]

Erm, actually, Terry won the Carnegie medal for his 2001 work The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, a fun, if vastly inferior, book. He won that award last July. Since the shortlist for the 2003 award (for books published in 2002) has already been announced (in May), he's not likely to win again forThe Wee Free Men until next year.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Oops. I'm braindead. :) I knew that. Got confused. Need sleep.