There’s still a little bit of Africa in my luggage and the shoes I wore for most of that trip are stained red from the Serengeti. I sacrificed two shirts, long sleeved numbers that I’d bought in Cambodia. I’ve switched to sweaters and rain boots here in Seattle, even while I’m looking forward to repacking my summer wardrobe for a trip back to warmer climates in November. And I’ve been writing, a lot, most of it for other publications. Here’s a round up of what I’ve been up to since that long trip back from Zanzibar.
Administrivia
Site related nonsense
Elsewhere
You know I’m a somewhat irregular contributor over at Gadling, right? They let me stray from my usual topic (gear) this month, and I wrote two things that might have ended up here, otherwise. One is about the Austrian School of Fantastic Realism — it’s an art thing — and how I think that stuff …
The Vanity Seven
Stupid memes. (That link tells you what the hell a meme is, if you’ve been lucky enough to avoid learning.)
Does anyone else hate them as much as I do? Then, wouldn’t you know it, some person you like and respect is all, “Hey, I totally tagged you for the meme!” When that happens to me, I go off in a corner and mutter about how I’m going to have to unfriend the oh so likeable Dan and Audrey, or that good natured Peter, and that is going to suck for me, mostly, because they have plenty of fine friends who are much less surly.
The annoyance meme I’m crabby about today asks that I dig through my archives and find posts that fit each of seven categories. It also requires that I be somewhat vain and show-offy. Um. Okay then.
Memes. Bah, humbug. Here’s your seven posts, damn you.
Elsewhere
I’m not here at Nerd’s Eye View much, but know that it’s not because I’m not writing. When I can recover a bit of my time from my current day job as a content strategist/user experience flunky/technical writer/copy editor, I’m polishing travel stories for: Practical Travel Gear: Gear reviews, once a week. Gadling: I’m new …
Where’s the Nerd?
Blah blah blah, don’t you hate it when people tell you how busy they are? Like you’re not, like you’re just sitting on the couch watching reruns of The Golden Girls and eating cookies. I know you’re busy, which is why I’m surprised you make any time at all to read Nerd’s Eye View. And …
2010 in Writing
It wasn’t particularly horrible, not superlatively awesome, but, well, it was okay. I didn’t do much by way of getting stories published, though I did get some nice rejections. I was hired to run a blog and then, when it turned out the company hadn’t budgeted for real pay for writers, things went south, very …