Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Just ordered (used) about $50 worth of SF Anthologies.....

Nothing to wear..........Shopping .............Just bought 500 euros worth of clothing.

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Just ordered (used) about $50 worth of SF Anthologies.....

I LOVE SF ANTHOLOGIES! Really old stuff, edited by Gardner __________, drawing a blank on the last name this morning. What all did you get?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

I LOVE SF ANTHOLOGIES! Really old stuff, edited by Gardner __________, drawing a blank on the last name this morning. What all did you get?

Gardner Dozois, former editor of Asimov's he does the annual years best which I buy every year:

http://www.amazon.com/Years-Best-Sci.../dp/0312608977

I just heard yesterday that he and Vernor Vinge will be at the SF convention here in the fall. May have to actually attend this year.


BTW the anthologies I got were:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765305348

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002XULXW4

and
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393035468

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Nothing to wear..........Shopping .............Just bought 500 euros worth of clothing.

Sorry I'd rather buy books than clothes or food.

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Nothing to wear..........Shopping .............Just bought 500 euros worth of clothing.

What did you get? I need to shop also. We are about to embark on a couple months of vacationing, and my too candid husband says to get new clothes. Apparently he has noticed that in all of our pics from years of vacations, I was wearing the same clothes each time!

I have orders also to get something besides orange and yellow. Yellow is my favorite color, so my closet is full of it. I was shopping the other day, and he kept reminding me "not yellow" because I am so drawn to it.

I got a darker bronze-ish print in a slinky fabric tank top with black "jeweled" straps. I think it is paisley, but patterns are getting harder for me to discern. I'm certain it is swirls of some sort.

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Gardner Dozois, former editor of Asimov's he does the annual years best which I buy every year:

yes, that's the guy. I got ahold of some old volumes, found them online somewhere. One in particular was great. It was all of the Locus winners back to the 1950's. Some really strange stuff in the 60's and 79's!

[FlorenceArt]

Doing nothing. Well, surfing the net and thinking about going out to the park... or the library... or the park and then the library...

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

What did you get? I need to shop also. We are about to embark on a couple months of vacationing, and my too candid husband says to get new clothes. Apparently he has noticed that in all of our pics from years of vacations, I was wearing the same clothes each time!

I have orders also to get something besides orange and yellow. Yellow is my favorite color, so my closet is full of it. I was shopping the other day, and he kept reminding me "not yellow" because I am so drawn to it.

I got a darker bronze-ish print in a slinky fabric tank top with black "jeweled" straps. I think it is paisley, but patterns are getting harder for me to discern. I'm certain it is swirls of some sort.

Yellow is a lovely color! Bronze or white would be good with yellow or orange.
I bought some nice short blazers in bright red and in gray. A silk light-gray blouse and some lovely sleeveless tops in red, purple and gray. I can combine all, as I have some official events/party's coming up these next few months.
I wont be needing to buy clothes for the holiday, as we're going to Iran and I have to wear a veil and some kind of largish, darkish coat.

[wyndslash]

i love bright colors

i'm currently half-reading and half-studying. i decided to give the author who i complained so much about another chance (since she seems to be very popular in the genre). i borrowed an ebook and i really wanted to like it, but i dunno. something is off :| the other man in the pairing was horribly emasculated (there's a semi-acceptable way, i guess), and well, even the love scenes were a turn-off. the concept was there but the author couldn't pull it off. it's too bad; i like her plots too :|

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by desertblues

I wont be needing to buy clothes for the holiday, as we're going to Iran and I have to wear a veil and some kind of largish, darkish coat.

So is this some sort of family visit or something? I am having trouble wrapping my head around Iran as a vacation destination. But I'm American, so to me, Iran is the anti-vacation. What will it mean to you to go there? I really want to know from your POV.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

yes, that's the guy. I got ahold of some old volumes, found them online somewhere. One in particular was great. It was all of the Locus winners back to the 1950's. Some really strange stuff in the 60's and 79's!

Well know we know why that was, don't we?

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

So is this some sort of family visit or something? I am having trouble wrapping my head around Iran as a vacation destination. But I'm American, so to me, Iran is the anti-vacation. What will it mean to you to go there? I really want to know from your POV.

Yes, Dixie, I can see that it would seem strange, my visiting such a country. I'll try to give you my point of vue.
My job is culture, so I'm very interested in the origins of our Western culture and the influence on Western Science. At this moment I'm reading The House of Wisdom by Jonathan Lyons about that. Fascinating, I must say.
These last few years we've been visiting the Roman and other ruins and remains of ancient civilization in Moroc, Syria, Jordan (Petra) and along the borders of Turkey (border with Armenia, Georgië, Syria, Iran, Iraq). An now its Iran that's getting a visit. We're on an organised tour, the 8 of us. Last year we didn't go because of the nuclear thing, but that one seems to be a point of tourist attraction this year.
In Syria I walked through the remains of a city from 4.000 years back; incredible. And in the area between the Euphraat and the Tigris: small children were tending goats, like they did for thousand of years. And in Petra we saw the huge buildings of that forgotten people, the ancient city of the Nabatheans.
I like to see how people in other countries live and what they think: from what I saw and the people I talked to.......they all want the same; a house, job, children, just to be able to live.
And no, I've no family there. I'm very much Dutch; the family-line from my mothers side ( van der Hoek) goes back to 1200 (related to Charlemagne) and have always lived in the same region; a near- isle De Hoeksewaard.
I think people everywhere are the same; it's the regimes that makes them into a group one would't want to relate to. But once you're in such a country and talk to the people: all they want is to be happy, not something complicated.
I'll include some photo's of Syria and Petra and the desert in Jordan.
I like talking about my trips, so feel free to ask all you want.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Yes, Dixie, I can see that it would seem strange, my visiting such a country. I'll try to give you my point of vue.
My job is culture, ....

Full stop. You JOB is culture? I must be not quite following. How can you have a job in culture other than in studying/teaching...maybe writing...but then your JOB isn't culture, but one of those other things -- writing, teaching, etc...

Please enlighten me.

[DixieGal]

Right now, i'm sitting on my back deck, reading, laughing as Tim carves crop circles into the early spring weed with the lawnmower. I love to watch hom work hard!

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Right now, i'm sitting on my back deck, reading, laughing as Tim carves crop circles into the early spring weed with the lawnmower. I love to watch hom work hard!

I'm sure he appreciates the encouragement!