Miscellaneous things make a post

So I have been burning my candle at both ends for a while so when I woke up this morning, I was, unsurprisingly, sick. Which meant that I missed the MN State Fair. I am sorely disappointed, both because the crop art was fairly epic this year and because my friend Sigrid won a second place ribbon for her knitted socks and I wanted to go and admire them. Also, Dessa is playing and I quite like Dessa. Sigh. And even if I am miraculously better tomorrow, I'm recording a podcast interview in the afternoon so I won't be able to make a trip to the Fair work. Sigh.

Other things I have been doing, in no particular order:

• Went to see Maiden, a documentary about the all-women crew who sailed around the world in the Whitbread Yacht Race in 1989/90. This was very good and I'm glad they got them all together for interviews while they're all still around. King Hussein of Jordan makes a surprise appearance (and becomes their corporate sponsor, which is an intriguing bit of history I didn't know about). Anyway, pretty inspirational and well worth seeing in the theater.
• Saw Ready or Not which is an entertaining horror film, sort of the unholy love child between Heathers (the movie) and Crimson Peak, but not quite as clever or well-done as either.
• Worked on the "Breaking Out of the Slush Pile" class that I'll be teaching for Hidden Timber Books in November.
• Worked on getting things prepped for my new book, Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic
• Went to this entertaining talk by Dessa, Curtis Sittenfeld and Nora McInery on literary craft at The Parkway.
• Started getting ready for my interview on the Queer Words Podcast tomorrow.

And in between all that was day job and hanging out with friends and the doing of miscellaneous things. Really glad to have tomorrow off and not just because I'm sick. Now off to bed early in hopes of sleeping off the crud.