How can I remember?

[readingredhead]

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, [even if we don't speak often] please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE-UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.

It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised [or mortified] about what people don't actually remember about you.

I have to say, this will be amusing.  Seriously guys, whatever memories you like.  I know I'll have fun making them up for some of you.

In other news, I'm done with my English paper!  Yeah, it probably needs some work and I'll look it over again tomorrow morning before I print it and turn it in, but at the moment it looks like I'm good to go.  This is the first time I think I've ever written a paper this quickly.

Stay tuned next week for short stories about bad science fiction writers (but realistic, so they still are literary fiction) and discussions of how books are made, with a highlight performance from some Russian guys who want to take me away.

Comments

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

The fast thing, as well as the disappearing-into-thin-air thing, lead me to agree with you. Except I think if he were Dresden, we never would've been able to follow him in the first place, and it would have taken less than 3 hours for him to lose us. Unless it wasn't just fate that right outside that alleyway where he led us was the greatest bookstore ever imaginable, and we ended up spending a great deal of our trip there going over our favorite books.

Sorry Butcher's not gonna be in your area! The closest he gets is Chicago and Saint Louis... I'm really looking forward to hearing him again -- he's funny in person and not just through literature! I could probably get him to sign something for you (unless they're silly and put a limit on the number of books you can bring with you).

[itsumi-actius.livejournal.com]

I still think it was just Dresden being nice, perhaps amused by our fangirling. Remember how my digital camera started smoking? Evidence!

I'd love it if you could get Butcher to sign something for me, or even if you got one of those buttons he hands out.

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten about the camera; perhaps this also explains why my phone's acting up. Probably because I named it after Thomas rather than Harry (my cell phone's name literally is Thomas, in part after the vampire though also in part after my senior year English teacher and T. S. Eliot).

I'll do what I can -- at the last signing there were no buttons (*extremely sad face*) but they did allow people to get more than one book signed. So I could either get one of the event flyers signed, or perhaps a paperback. What's your favorite book in the series? I say paperback because it's easier to ship, but if you really want a signed copy of Small Favor I don't blame you!

[itsumi-actius.livejournal.com]

This is why we always name the gadget after Harry.

Could I bother you to get me a signed event flyers signed? That would be beyond excellent.

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

It would indeed be exceedingly excellent and not a bother at all. :)

I really ought to name a gadget after Harry, but right now there are no unnamed gadgets. The laptop is Fitzwilliam (Darcy from Pride and Prejudice), the phone is Thomas, the iPod is Murphy (also Dresden!) and the family camcorder is Edmond (after the main character in Count of Monte Cristo -- my sister's name). Oh, and the Pocket PC is Nik, after a rather attractive spy in Julie E. Czerneda's Species Imperative series.

[itsumi-actius.livejournal.com]

The Ipod is Macbeth, the computer is Hermes. The laptop that used to work and doesn't play well with others is Keito-kun. The camera is unnamed so far.

I think my calculators all had names, too. I know that graphing calculator was Akira, but I forget the scientific's name.


Thus begs the question of why all of my stuff is male.

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

All my electronics were male until Murphy (who's the most recent addition). She also almost got named after X-Files' Dana Scully, but I decided to stick with purely literary characters.