How did that happen?

It's May! All of a sudden, it's another month and now both MW and my holiday are only a matter of weeks away! Eeeeee!!!! Fortunately, the big trip is all booked and I'm now just down to things like sorting out foreign currency and checking what I want to take will fit into the bag.

In terms of MW, I'm a bit stuck. Looking forward to it immensely, as I get to see all sorts of cool people I miss the rest of the year (you know who you are!) but stumped in terms of this year's door decoration. Last year we did Canadian Actor Bingo, the year before that a Wild Wild West display with lots of shots of Jim West's arse, and the year before that was Boston Legal if I recall correctly. So far this year nothing has really grabbed me, though I still have plenty of time to be printing stuff off the morning I leave for the airport! :P

It seems odd, though, to be heading off to Lansing off the back of a relatively unproductive year so far. Part of the problem is that I guess I never thought I'd so completely cool off SG-1 this way, which was naiveté on my part - first proper fandom, what can I say? - but there's always this niggly little voice that, for me at least, says if I'm not producing something for the fandom then what am I there for? No resting on past laurels, I'm afraid, in the land of Graculus.

Maybe what I need is a new fandom? Unfortunately, there's been no great road-to-Damascus moment with anything since I got stricken by Mag7. SG-1 is what brought me here, UNCLE has been my fandom since before I knew what fandom was, I sidled into WWW from UNCLE, so this is all quite novel again. I'm watching a wide variety of shows, but there's nothing that makes me want to write - been reading a bunch of the Trek reboot stuff too, as well as Sherlock Holmes old and new (with particular admiration for the works of katieforsythe and gaedhal's current opus) but none of it makes me want to dive in.

In other news, the passive-aggressive dipshit I have been dealing with at work was dumb enough to show himself up in a meeting to the point where he provided enough ammunition that I was able to make a formal complaint. He is now pointedly not talking to me, which I greatly prefer as an alternative to his previous inanities.

Separate book post to follow...

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What I've read since last time:

On The Edge by Ilona Andrews
Valiant by Holly Black*
Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams
Swan Peak by James Lee Burke
Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith
My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
The Ghost and Mrs McClure by Alice Kimberly
The Ghost and the Dead Deb by Alice Kimberly
The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library by Alice Kimberly
Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Martyr by Rory Clements
Fall of Atlantis by Marion Zimmer Bradley*
Circles of Confusion by April Henry
White as Snow by Tanith Lee
Space Captain Smith by Toby Frost
City for Ransom by Robert W. Walker
Belarus by Lee Hogan
The Harper's Quine by Pat McIntosh
The Nicholas Feast by Pat McIntosh
Sovereign by CJ Sansom
White Butterfly by Walter Mosley
A Red Death by Walter Mosley
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette
Fly By Night by Francis Hardinge
Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong
Bareback by Kit Whitfield
Montmorency and the Assassins by Eleanor Updike
Blood on the Tongue by Stephen Booth
Death of a Squire by Maureen Ash
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Charmed Sphere by Catherine Asaro
The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas*
Crown of Stars by James Tiptree Jr
Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Blue Moon Rising by Simon R. Green
Winter's End by John Rickards*
Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville*
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Unshapely Things by Mark del Franco
The Missing Chapter by Robert Goldsborough
Hounding the Moon by P.R. Frost*
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
Dragon Bone by Patricia Briggs
Dragon Blood by Patricia Briggs
Child 44 by Tim Rob Smith
Sixty-One Nails by Mike Shevdon*

* = unfinished

That's the second of China Mieville's books I've been unable to really get into, so I doubt I'll be trying him again... I'm currently reading Murder on the Flying Scotsman by Carola Dunn.