Thanksgiving Advent, Day Two: My Colleagues

[swan_tower]

Continuing the post-WFC theme: I don't exactly work with anybody, per se -- writing being a fairly solitary task and all -- but man, my fellow writers are pretty damn cool people.

Sure, not all of them; some are boring blowhards or unrepentant jerks. But the percentage of them with whom I can have cool conversations is remarkably high. It's a function of the job, really: writers in general, and sf/f writers in particular, are prone to knowing random nifty things, and "random nifty things" is one of my favorite things to talk about. As mrissa and alecaustin and zellandyne and I were commenting at lunch on Sunday, we don't do the small talk thing very well; introduce us to somebody new, and if we get our way, within five minutes we'll be riffing on archaeology or exoplanets or historical methods of smallpox vaccination.

I may go months at a time without talking to any of them in person, but I look forward to those occasions when we all get together.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I did tell you about the blanket octopus, yes?

[tltrent.livejournal.com]

I would have much preferred archaeology or exoplanets or smallpox vax to small talk, so feel free to ply me w/that next time! :)

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

. . . no, you didn't.

See icon.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Oh, just try to stop me. <g> I'm sorry I didn't get more time to chat with you, on any topic. There just isn't enough con for all the people I want to hang out with! (Of course, if the con was longer, I'd only meet more new people, thus compounding the problem for the following year...)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Blanket octopuses rip the tentacles off man-o-wars and use them to kill their own prey.

...I know.

[genarti]

That is GLORIOUS, and my life is happier to know this fact. Wow.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

BEST. PREDATION METHOD. EVAR.

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One of the things that perpetually delights and astonishes me is how nice and how interesting so many sff writers are.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

My theory is we save it up for those times we get together, since so many of us lead relatively antisocial lives. :-)

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

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