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And in other news
Sunday, June 7th, 2009 | News update | No Comments
And in other news I’m writing and doing all sorts of things while waiting for our flight. Update of our adventures by the numbers:
- 15 minutes until we board our plane for Los Angeles
- 45 minutes until the plane takes off (nominally)
- 10am Monday we leave Australia, we travel for 14 hours and arrive 7.30am Monday. Ah the joys of time travel.
- 7 days in Los Angeles
- 10 days in Portland
- then 6 weeks at Clarion
- 1-14 days amount of time I need to have my ankle in a brace. Given my physiotherapist will be on another continent I’m going to go for the conservative end of things.
- ?????? amount of time we will live in America.
It still hasn’t quite sunk in. We’re going, we’re on our way. I am so full of enthusiasm and excitement. We are in a state of becoming.
Rachel Hills – Emerging Writers Festival, 7 Enviable Lines
Sunday, June 7th, 2009 | Conventions | No Comments
Rachel Hills was the third Ambassador to speak at the Emerging Writers Festival. Rachel’s a widely published journalist and editor. She’s also an awesome blogger (with many of her articles available to view) and posts interesting tweets linking to interesting articles. I wish I was half as retweetable as her. I was excited to finally meet her, having met her virtually years and years ago when she was working on a story about labiaplasty (now that’s a long story).
Rachel has in her fabulous blogging way put up a transcript of her full talk, you may find it interesting to see the difference between what I distilled and what she said. The distillery says:
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