Quick thoughts about my week

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 More detail later. 
So I took a week off work, not a moment too soon. I was closer to breaking than I realized, so a lot of this week has been about self care.
But I'm in Denver until tomorrow before I need to go back home (I should note I do miss everyone, just not work and stress).
Done so far:

• Went to a workshop on writing women and gender defaults in fantasy with writer Kate Elliott.
• Met a lovely bunch of Sirens folks
• Went to dinner with a couple of folks I know from online to talk cons and writing and families and stuff
• Took several hot baths
• Took a headache day to rest and relax and work on a new story and plot some new projects
• Went to a Sirens dinner and met more nice women
• Did two panels, which went well
• Hit the hotel hottub, which was very nice
• Went to other people's programming, including a paper on women revolutionaries and a workshop on lock picking
• Been alternately charmed and horrified by the number of aspiring, unpublished writers who I've met here who are "quitting their day jobs to write" 
• Long walks, a glorious trip to Tattered Cover Bookstore, more talks, more workshops, more chatting 

Wow, did I need this!