The fried spring rolls I made Saturday afternoon are still sitting in the fridge (I always forget that the recipe I have makes for 30-35 pieces, ie enough for at least 3 meals…). ’tis a good thing, for I’m feeling pretty lazy tonight.

Well, “lazy” is relative, of course. I have something to prepare for:

It’s a little blurry, but this farmhouse in Putten is where we’re going to be spending the Fifth Villa Diodati workshop this weekend (see a larger version here). As usual, much writing, discussing and cooking will be done.
Now I’m off to read stories for the workshop

In the tradition of SF Signal’s Mind Melds, the World SF blog is hosting a series of round tables by authors. The first topic, “On environment and background”, just went up, with answers from fellow AR author Kaaron Warren, fellow Shimmer author Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Vandana Singh and me. Thank to Lavie Tidhar and Charles Tan for starting this!