Well, a little bit famouser than I was, anyway… if being famous within Bookcrossing circles counts 🙂 First of all, bookczuk (who despite what I intimated about Livejournallers yesterday does regularly read my diary, even without prompting!) spotted the entry I’d written about our BC Christmas Party, and turned it into an article for the…

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been hearing mysterious thuds and bangs whenever I’ve been in the bathroom. The alleyway fence is just outside the bathroom window, so I just assumed it was kids walking down the alleyway kicking at the fence or something, but the weird thing was I never heard any voices…

Finally my cold has almost gone, and I actually feel like my brain is back on-line again. I did struggle through three days of work, but it’s lucky it was quiet, because I was definitely not at my most productive. I have managed to be reasonably productive with convention stuff though. I’d volunteered to help…

In theory, I was back at work on Monday. In reality, I was in long enough to clear the mail and my backlog of phone and email messages from over the break, then went back home to bed. Nephew #1 had been coughing a bit when they were here the other day, and guess who…

As promised (and whether you like it or not), photos of the framed artworks: I’d intended for the rest of this week to be just as constructive as Wednesday (being in an “oh no I’ve only got a few days left of my holiday and I haven’t achieved anything” panic), but those plans were pretty…

Well, sort of revealed. Revealed in a friends only sort of way 🙂 What I’ve been working on for the convention is lots of little pocket-sized ballycumbers: They’re pretty simple, just made out of snow-foam and pipecleaners, but I think they look quite good, and will make a great goody-bag gift. Unfortunately, I ran out…

I got my first catch for 2007 on Monday! It was one of the books I released in Wellington, Internal Affairs by Jill Tweedie. And the finder joined Bookcrossing, too! Let’s hope that’s an omen of lots of successful releases this year. I’ve had a very productive day today, plus a very very long walk….

Total: 140 books January (16) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Disappearing Rain by Deena Larsen (hypertext novel) Under the Duvet by Marian Keyes Diary by Chuck Palahniuk Clara’s Heart by Joseph Olshan The Color of Television by Stuart Moulthrop and Sean Cohen (hypertext novel) Joe’s Heartbeat in Budapest by Ruth Nestvold (interactive fiction) Star…

Ooh, drama next door – a fire engine pulled up a few minutes ago with lights flashing, and they went into the house with a hose. No sign of any smoke or anything, though, and there doesn’t seem to be any major sense of urgency about proceedings, so I assume it’s nothing major. I don’t…

Like most New Zealanders, my ancestry is a bit of a mixture. On one side, I’m a 5th generation Kiwi – my paternal grandmother was named Charlotte Jane, after the ship her grandparents came from England to New Zealand on (for my American readers, this is like having arrived on the Mayflower). Then there’s my…