Cold cats

Second Tuesday of the month meetup tonight, attended by the usual suspects (me, lytteltonwitch, awhina and meerkitten), plus MrPloppy (who’s more of an unusual suspect ;-)). For a change I managed not to come home with any books (I’ve really got to start reading some of Mt TBR before it topples over and kills someone),…

The convention started last night, and it’s going wonderfully! Loads of wonderful people, and wonderful books, and wonderful food, and wonderful fun, and we’ve only just started! (I know it’s immodest of me to describe the convention in such glowing terms, but I’m just so happy that it all seems to be working out, and…

I just got back from the pictures and it’s very very late, so I really should go to bed, but I just wanted to say that when I got home there was an email waiting for me from the travel agent, with a confirmed itinerary. YAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More details tomorrow. (Between flashbacks of the movie (The…

Ah, the tale of the naming of FutureCat is a long and tangled one. Sit down and I’ll tell you the story of how I got my name… Actually, it’s reasonably simple: ever since I first started using the internet, I’ve used a variety of usernames with “cat” in them. On one forum that I…

I know, I know, I’ve been so slack lately about updating my diary. And I can’t even remember all that I haven’t written about lately… I would have written up the trip to Dunedin, which was great fun, but I was waiting for lytteltonwitch to email me the photos she took of our Harry Potter…

I had to make a tough decision today. The downside (yes, there is one!) of my exciting travel plans is that doing any study this semester is going to be virtually impossible – even though most of the time I’ll be away is during the university vacation, I’ll still be missing a week and a…