Personal Digest Saturday: January 17 – January 23

Life news this week: 

• The big thing this week was of course BIRTHDAY TRIP! And I am now 37. I spent part of the week vacationing in Cape Coral with Meghan, whose birthday is two days after mine, and we did a ton of movie-watching and food-eating. It's nice to have a vacation that isn't about constant runaround--just down time and relaxing. It was great.
  
• We also saw a musical, which was The Book of Mormon. We enjoyed it!
  
• My mom seems to have recovered from her food poisoning nonsense, but other mishaps plagued our vacation too. Meg's husband fell and had to get stitches on his eyebrow. I tripped over my pants in the kitchen and bashed my knee again--the same one I fell on in the parking lot last week. Meg's car got towed from my apartment complex. And annoying publishing-world stuff happened.
  
• Jeaux Day was Wednesday, but I was late to it because of having to work late. We ate at Moe's and listened to Night Vale podcast and watched Galavant, and I managed to get us tickets for the Night Vale live show that is coming to my area in April!
  
• One of my friends got a book deal so that is pretty damn amazing.
  
• In other bookish news, I bought my friend Kippur's newly released book and you should too. The Tropes of Fantasy Fiction!

New reviews of my book:

• Evening Assam, Morning Pu-er reviewed the book on January 13, but I didn't notice it somehow. Five stars! Captain Mazikeen added on to say the book is super great.

• Sarah's review on Goodreads: Five stars.

Places featured:

• Asexual Alligator was asked to list asexuality-related media and answered with a list that included my book, recommending it glowingly.
  
• Freethought Blogs did an Asexual Spectrum Atheists panel, and my book was mentioned. Jackasses attacked the comments and mocked asexuality, of course.

Reading progress:

• Completed reading: Love Me, Love My Broccoli by Julie Anne Peters. Two-star review.
• Currently reading: Of Goddess Born by J.C. Fann.

New singing performances:

Here I'm singing "Holiday" by Madonna, because I just went on holiday and it seemed appropriate.


 
New drawings:

Webcomic Negative One Issue 0506: "Watching for Signs."





New videos:

None this week.

New photos:  

Wine was left for us in the home we rented for no apparent reason. (We didn't drink it.)

My very pink birthday photo.

Kitchen wenches battle it out!

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