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Time for Accountability

I think last year might have been the one where I burnt out but was too busy to notice. I set a goal for Rantalica for 2019 – a minimum of 4 posts a month, one of them accountability.

I managed it in February, April, May, June, July, September, October and November. 8 out of 12 is not bad. Neither is 61 posts in all, because it brings to about 5 a month, which is…

Accountability, Almost on Time, For a Change

November started out quite peacefully: I was in China and cut off from Google and social networks altogether, which brought its own kind of rest I apparently needed more than I knew. Also, I love being on planes and traveling halfway around the world does mean 10 or so hours on planes, and that was really restful too. (Yes, I know, crazy, but still.) Also, meeting some big names of SF for the…

When the Artist Is (Omni)Present – 80 years of Margaret Atwood

Tonight, I am taking part in Canadian Week – Marking Margaret Atwood’s 80th Birthday by being part of a panel with two exceptional women, Vanja Polic and Petra Sapun Kuring. The panel – When the Artist Is (Omni)Present – 80 years of Margaret Atwood – will take place at 20:00 today, at Booksa in Zagreb and it is my job to bring the SF fandom perspective to it. 

Margaret Atwood as a brand of…

Famous Fan: Regina Wang Kanyu

I met Regina at Worldcon 75, and I honestly do not remember exactly when. By the time I was traveling to Helsinki at the beginning of August 2017 for the con itself, she was already one of my favourite people there. The first thing we did, on that Tuesday when we landed, was to leave out stuff at the hostel and go to a barbecue with Charlotte and Pietri Laihonen, and Regina. 

Regina is an…

Accountability Continues to Suck, But I No Longer Care

It is hard to hold oneself accountable while traveling. And I did travel a lot in October. The month started with a 3-day trip to Rijeka for Rikon,  and ended with me in China for the China National SF Convention in Beijing. In between, I took a few days for a short trip to the Croatian coast, in Selce. 

Selce was awesome – I went alone, had the hotel room all to myself and my schedule…

Volunteering at a WorldCon

If I want to add something interesting when introducing myself, I say “…and for fun, I run science fiction conventions.” Around the time I got recruited to be Hospitality Division Head at Worldcon 75, I was just starting a new job. I had left the old one because I was not left alone during my vacation, which was actually Loncon and Shamrokon. So not really a vacation? Weeeell, no. This is what I…

Cyberpunk Rules! Workshop @ Rikon 2019

This year’s Rikon was dedicated to cyberpunk, which I adored in high school. It fits into my love of film noir, and science fiction and police procedurals with a twist as well as into my overall moodiness. I proposed a two-part cyberpunk workshop to Rikon programming sometime in the middle of September, possibly at a moment when I was reminiscing about attending Milford in Wales last year. 

I…

September came before I thought it would, and was way warmer than I like it. Maybe I was a bit tired, maybe it was just the heat, but I was in a bit of a funk in the first week of the month. And last. And the two in between. 🙂 Hence, the almost no activity here. 

Work did not so much catch up with me as I failed to catch up with it, despite putting in an insane amount of hours. 190 for one…