[LMB] (chat) January report

[Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan]

On 1/10/07, Lois McMaster Bujold <lbujold at myinfmail.com> wrote:
> So...
>  I hope,
> but don't count on, to be able to hear in stereo again by Capricon.  So
> that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Good luck!  I hope it does!

> But now I'm there, and must pause and cogitate for some unknown
> amount of time till some combination of front and back brain decides
> what should go next, and how much of it.

Hmmmmm.... hope that goes well and is there anything we can do to help
the process?  More on topic posts to read?  Or more off topic ones to
get your mind off your own work?  ;-)

>  I'm enjoying my Netflix, though.

We're really enjoying ours -- our current addictions, I mean, rentals
are in Scrubs, House, and a very new one for us -- Battlestar
Galactica.  We just borrowed the miniseries from some newly discovered
local pushers, and we're hooked.

Speaking of which -- we've gotten a new convert or two (don't know if
the wife read it yet) -- the above-mentioned book pushers, we've done
some trading.  We got Patrick O'Brian and Ursula LeGuin and Battlestar
Galactica and they got Cordelia's Honor and Ender's Shadow.  They've
come back for more Vorkosigan too!

By the way, Lois, have you seen _What's Cooking?_, a movie directed by
Gurinder Chadha (who also did _Bend it Like Beckham_ and _Bride and
Prejudice_)?  The IMDB link is:
<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197096/>.

Tom and I watched What's Cooking this weekend and we really liked it.
It's all about families and Thanksgiving dinner, with complications
and connections.  It's done in a similar style to Love, Actually, but
since What's Cooking was out 3 years earlier, I wouldn't call it
derivative.  Anyway, it's got a bit of a plot and much more of a
crescendo than I was expecting.  Lots of fun!  I'd definitely
recommend you watch it, Lois!

-Tora (sending a secret message directly to Lois' backbrain: figure
things out and let Lois know soon, 'kay? !)