I'm halfway through my first term, and by now I am settled into this life. Graduate school is the best vacation ever -- so many new things to experience, all at immense expense. I am planning out next term, and think that I will do a graduate seminar on Chaucer (Chaucer! I can't believe they'll give me credit for reading Chaucer) and a memoir workshop (ditto).

I was stressed and unhappy for most of the summer -- too much going on without a home address and with no idea what life in Raleigh was going to look like. I hated feeling like that, but I am glad it happens every so often: it reminds me how good it is to feel good the rest of the time.

Writing news? I have been writing, alternating between a novel and a non-linear short story. Right now they both feel sort of inconclusive.

I'll have a short story, "Ponies," out at tor.com this weekend. It will be here when the time comes.

I have a podcast interview with Brent Bowen up, on Adventures in Scifi Publishing.

I will be at the World Fantasy Con in Columbus, Ohio, in a couple of weeks. I still haven't heard from programming, but I hope to be reading there. If nothing else, I will be meeting friends and drinking bourbon.