{"id":17490,"date":"2009-09-29T08:02:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17490"},"modified":"2015-01-06T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T21:49:39","slug":"a-busy-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/29\/a-busy-october\/","title":{"rendered":"A busy October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, my weekends are not that much different from my weekdays&#8212;it&#8217;s work, work, work, whether on <a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/index.php\"><i>SCI FI Wire<\/i><\/a>, or my own writing, or the house and yard. After all, it&#8217;s almost time to start putting another batch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8293436@N04\/sets\/72157615824510917\/\">daffodils<\/a> in the ground!<\/p>\n<p>About half the months of the year, I&#8217;m off to a convention of some kind.  During July, I&#8217;m usually off to two&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.readercon.org\/\">Readercon <\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/cci\/\">San Diego Comic-Con<\/a>.  But it just occurred to me that I&#8217;ll be breaking some sort of record with October, because I&#8217;m scheduled to be making peregrinations four of the month&#8217;s five weekends!<\/p>\n<p>The <b>second<\/b> weekend in October, I&#8217;ll be going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poebicentennial.com\/events.html\">Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s funeral<\/a>. As much as I like hearing Ellen Datlow speak, I have to admit that I&#8217;m most looking forward to  discovering what Alfred Hitchcock, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, H.P. Lovecraft,  Jules Verne, and Alexander Dumas have to say.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>third<\/b> weekend in October, I&#8217;ll be attending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capclave.org\/capclave09\/\">Capclave<\/a> in Rockville, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>fourth<\/b> weekend in October, I&#8217;ll be accompanying Irene to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njromancewriters.org\/conference\/conference.asp\">New Jersey Romance Writers Conference<\/a>. I won&#8217;t be attending the actual con, but I&#8217;ll use the weekend to  have another <a href=\"http:\/\/scottedelman.livejournal.com\/88115.html\">reunion with editors from my high-school newspaper<\/a>. Plus, once Irene&#8217;s done with her con,  we&#8217;ll be taking <a href=\"http:\/\/scottedelman.livejournal.com\/141536.html\">Marie Severin<\/a> out to lunch.<\/p>\n<p>And the <b>fifth<\/b> weekend in October, I&#8217;ll be heading off to San Jose for this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2009.org\/\">World Fantasy Convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad there&#8217;s nothing going on the first weekend in October, or else I&#8217;d have a Grand Slam!<\/p>\n<p>Let me know whether I can expect to see any of you at any of these events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, my weekends are not that much different from my weekdays&#8212;it&#8217;s work, work, work, whether on SCI FI Wire, or my own writing, or the house and yard. After all, it&#8217;s almost time to start putting another batch of daffodils in the ground! About half the months of the year, I&#8217;m off to a convention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-17490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17491,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions\/17491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}