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<\/a>Hello! I have lost time this week – I’ve been a day behind for the entire time, and I’m like, “It’s Friday? Really?” This is the sad, sad result of going to meetings all week for various wonderful institutions – somehow this is the year of the Board. Next year WILL NOT BE. Trust me on this. Anyway! This is a really, really, REALLY quick five and dime — the number of things I’m seeing on the web are adding up, and I’ve not spilled them in a long time! So, without further ado:<\/p>\n

Jo Gratz remains<\/b> the coolest girl<\/a> on earth. That is all.<\/p>\n

Didja notice Leila<\/b> guesting away <\/a>on Book Riot<\/a> this past week? Also on Book Riot, much amusement due to the additional shenanigans of our old bud, Minh, with the Celebrity Selfie Book Club<\/a>. I love that idea a WHOLE lot and need to re-imagine a whole lot of selfies now.<\/p>\n

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\nHat tip to Emm Roy<\/a>, cartoonist.
In addition to being Asian American Heritage Month, May is National Mental Health Month, FYI for 2016.\n<\/div>\n

And on the same topic,<\/b> you won’t want to miss Kelly talking depression at Disability in KidLit. She’s solo for her first piece<\/a>, and then part of a panel in the next.<\/a> I appreciate the booklist(s), a great deal.<\/p>\n

Just to take a quick sec to plug Disability in Kidlit — as a reader and<\/i> as a writer, I find this site really, really valuable. Sometimes a perception check can help – and having someone with a particular real life experience with a particular issue articulate their opinion on a book which deals with that particular issue can help me assess what I thought I knew, and see more clearly how assumptions and stereotypes fall short. Check it out.<\/p>\n

The Forever Girls<\/b> – more than the sum of their parts. Poor Ariel and Rapunzel may be<\/a> my favorite characters thus far.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe could wear it in her corset, where it would be a constant reminder of his love\u2014probably because it was uncomfortable.\u201d<\/b> Oh, ladies. You know you want his whalebone in your stays. (Wow, that sounded bad.) Don’t worry, you’ve just got a busk in your corset<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Running in circles<\/b> never looked so fun. I need to go to this Kindergarten<\/a>. Stat. What is it, with all of the cool pedal desks<\/a> and encouragement to fidget and twitch that kids get nowadays? I am flat out jealous, and still mad I don’t have my hovercar. Pfft. <\/p>\n

And again, on the same topic,<\/b> Tech Boy ran across this piece on 19th-and-early-20th century writers who had VERY DEFINITE opinions<\/a> on sitting or standing whilst writing. Interesting that Virginia Woolf wrote with her typewriter on a dresser, so she could stand, and Roald Dahl… sat in a sleeping bag<\/i> in a wing-backed chair with his feet propped on a suitcase full of …logs? Because, reasons. (In my always-cold-even-in-August basement office here, I’m all about that sleeping bag idea, however. Tech Boy is already researching ways to make my dining-table-turned-desk into a Japanese-style kotatsu<\/a>. Conversely, we can turn my elliptical machine into a desk. Options, people.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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