{"id":624,"date":"2002-09-21T22:24:04","date_gmt":"2002-09-22T05:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/09\/21\/624.html"},"modified":"2002-09-21T22:24:04","modified_gmt":"2002-09-22T05:24:04","slug":"long-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/09\/21\/long-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Long day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spent the morning reading subs and doing miscellaneous administrivia.  Oh, and reading a couple stories in <cite>Starlight 1,<\/cite> which has been sitting on my shelf unread for ages.  Swanwick's \"The Dead\" is thoroughly unpleasant but very well-done.  Have also finally started reading Ginu Kamani's <cite>Junglee Girl.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>Afternoon, drove up to Berkeley for a workshop meeting, in which we discussed all sorts of issues we're currently trying to resolve, regarding membership and the possibility of merging with another group and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, I stopped by Good Vibrations in Berkeley.  I was startled to see that in one of their bookcases of erotica, I had stories in two different books.  (To put it another way, both of my published erotica stories were on the same bookcase.)  This is not that big a deal; I'm just not yet used to seeing books containing my writing on store shelves.<\/p>\n<p>(I was amused at how many of the books on that bookcase had stories by Mary Anne in them.  I didn't count, but it seemed like a lot.)<\/p>\n<p>I picked up a copy of <cite>Best Bisexual Erotica 2<\/cite> and, um, some other stuff.  (Sorry not to shop at Blowfish, Heather, but I wanted to touch some stuff before buying it.)  I admit to a little uncertainty about <cite>Best Bi Erotica 2;<\/cite> I was a little unsatisfied with the first volume's heavy focus on multi-person encounters, which seemed to me to perpetuate the stereotype that bi people are incapable of monogamy.  (I have absolutely nothing against multi-person sex scenes, mind you; I'd just like to see that be one among several foci.)  I certainly understand that it's harder to prove that a monogamous character is bi, but I think there are plenty of ways it can be done.  But the editors were explicitly looking for multi-person and poly stuff, which of course is their prerogative.  And hey, I liked it enough to buy volume 2.<\/p>\n<p>Then I headed toward home, but decided to stop in Palo Alto to buy Mac OS X 10.2 and fondle the latest iPods (the old-style turning wheel is, I have to say, more tactilely satisfying than the new trackpad-style non-turning wheel-shaped touch surface), and pick up chicken gyros wrapped in pita for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>And now it's time to round out the day with some more reading.  Despite all of the above, I sorta feel like I haven't gotten much done today, and it feels too early to be nearly 10:30.  Sigh.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the morning reading subs and doing miscellaneous administrivia. Oh, and reading a couple stories in Starlight 1, which has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}