[EDIT: no spoilers past this episode please, we're watching this for the first time...]

Ok, nearing the final lap of BSG (just watched “Escape Velocity” from Season 4), and I feel I have to ask: what the %%% happened to women on this show?
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And another afternoon of being pretty busy… I tackled the pile of laundry to be ironed, and dented it significantly. I should have done it last weekend, but last weekend I was still recovering from a nasty tumble on the road with had resulted in a bunch of open wounds and an even bigger bunch of bruises (memo, never run after a bus and trip. Thankfully, I’m much better now, though the bruises are still around…).

In the series “my great experiments today”, I also got to wash a pillow in the new washing machine for the first time. It’s still underway, so I guess I’ll find out if I got the right settings for the beastie when it comes out (hopefully not half its original size, and hopefully whiter than it was on entering, too).

Writing activities: a bunch of edits, half a scene in the current short, and some minor website updatery. Also started signing my sheets of Angry Robot stickers (the ones that will go in the books), though I didn’t get very far before my wrist gave up the ghost.

Also did some shopping, and bought the new India Arie CD (Testimony vol.2 Love & Politics), and a cut-price DVD of Infernal Affairs (it’s got Tony Leung–what more need I say?).

Tomorrow, the BF and I are attending a christening, so I need to dig up something suitable in the way of formal dress… (and, if I’m lucky, will not have to iron it).

I’ve just been given official permission to post about this: my story “The Lost Xuyan Bride”, originally published in Interzone, will form part of the upcoming release of Polish online library Skryptorium at the Katedra site, edited by Jan Zeranski.

The site itself is not live yet, but we’ve been given permission to spread the word

You can see a preview of the working design here. The Skryptorium project aims to showcase SF/Fantasy short fiction in translation for the benefit of Polish readers.

Here are the current stories:

Aliette de Bodard – “The Lost Xuyan Bride”
Cory Doctorow – “I, Robot”
Jeffrey Ford – “Exo-Skeleton Town”
Daryl Gregory – “In the Wheels”
Ted Kosmatka – “Divining Light”
Jay Lake – “Tom Edison and his telegraphic harpoon”
Nedimma Nkemdili Okorafor-Mbachu – “Amphibious Green”
Jeff VanderMeer – “A Heart for Lucretia”
Zoran Zivkovic – “First photograph”

This is my first ever translation–thanks to Jan for the offer, and to everyone involved in the Skryptorium project.

And, er, wow. That’s some TOC.