I remembered!

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BAAF! And AXNY! They’re this weekend! I went to pick up my Staff T-shirt from Ryoko today, along with my volunteer badge and manager’s paperwork. As it turns out, you get one shirt per shift. I have 4 shifts. So I was thinking, what am I going to do with four shirts?! So I ended up getting the 3 extra shirts in the correct sizes for Liz, Louie, and Angelica. Aren’t I nice? Afterwards, I called Angelica and told her what I did and I think she was really surprised by how nice I was. But I don’t get it, I mean… what else would I do but think about my closest friends?

Hmm, in addition to one shift per day for BAAF, I’m also manning the promo table in the Dealers’ Room for Yuricon on Sunday from 4 to 6:30 pm. So, if you’re there stop by and say hi!

Book recommendations:

1632 by Eric Flint:

It’s actually been about a month since I finished reading this book, so I’m not going to be able to recall all the details, but it’s a really good read! The premise is 6-mile radius of land from the middle of Appalachia in the States is transplanted through space and time to a small town in Germany in the middle of the 17th century (hence, the title 1632).

Mother of Demons by Eric Flint:

I have a difficult time getting “into” alien sci-fi, partly because I find it tedious to remember the descriptions of the aliens. But this particular book had me hooked from the start! Flint’s sense of humor is very apparent, and his point of view on history (which is intertwined throughout the book) is fascinating! My main interest is military fiction, but Flint could definitely pull me into the subgenre of alternate history. As long as it’s with his intriguing humor, of course.

Harmful to Minors: the Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine:

The first non-school, non-fiction book I’ve read in…. oh, about 10 years! I was at the library and picked up a book by Sara Ryan that sounded very interesting. I would have read it, but I’m so not in the mood for first-person-diary-entry format right now. It really gets on my nerves at times. So I put it down, but I noticed on the back cover that the author had a website… so I went to the site and clicked on her book recommendations link and saw the recommendation for Judith Levine’s Harmful to Minors, so I went to look it up. I’m about half way through at this point. While it’s not as fast-paced or intriguing as a fiction novel, it is very interesting and Levine really explains a lot of what goes on in the government and the whole “Christian Right” sex-scare. I actually stopped reading for a bit, partly because it’s too scary to read, all in one shot, about the horrible politics that go on in your own government. Especially when those politics take away your rights; freedom of choice and personal privacy, etc. Obviously, I’m a liberal. ::shudders:: I’m going to have to go back and finish it soon.