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Further launch trivia: there will be a book launch in Vancouver as well. I'm definitely coming over if I can manage it, because my family will be there --

Pause for anecdote. --

Remember that I said my mother was giving a sermon with me as a story in it? She did; it was v. good. I said to her -- that's the danger in our family. Other people, they write about their families, their families just get mad. I write about my family -- they write about me.

No control of the discourse.

-- End anecdote. Anyway, depending on the day, maybe I can make a weekend of it and see Vancouver folks. Yes? Maybe?

Speaking of those elusive creatures, tonight, of course, is dinner with foxymuffins and onlynarisse at 5th Street. Tomorrow, B's sister is auditioning for local theatre, and I am going along for moral support. I would audition myself if I had any time whatever. It looks to be a very silly murder mystery. Where would local theatre be without murder mysteries? And I think somehow I have to get in to work for as much as I can manage.

My point, I think, is: busy weekend.

I happen to be posting at all, and from the coffee shop in particular, because I had a feeling I ought to check my waitlist status. I was right -- there's only a 24-hour window to register, and there was my Offer, with only 3 more hours until it expired. Mind, I expect there were other spaces, but I felt vindicated.

They gave me a free dry-erase calendar at UVic, so I have written on it all of the various seminars I am supposed to go to on how to apply for SSHRC, and one on PhDs, just because (green ink). Also assignment deadlines, etc. (black). And of course the MA deadlines (red).

I always feel like I am missing some very obvious point in all of these processes. Experience has not contradicted this impression.

Took myself to the Superior for lunch in order to get myself to read Molloy. I find this method works quite well provided the lunch is very good, which it was. (Spinach, goat cheese, proscuttio & crunchy onion salad; yam-coconut-chipotle soup, abuse of VISA as am cash-poor, well, cash-absent, just now. Stupidly paid my bills on a rent paycheque.)

Now: more reading, with only Knowledge as my reward.

Here is the reading list:

Molloy
Absolute Beginners
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The Rachel Papers
A Clockwork Orange
The Buddha of Suburbia
Brixton Rock
Trainspotting

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