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January 30, 2008 Passing It On 
I still owe you all that wicca post--January has been one of those months and my blogging time has been drastically restricted--but in the meantime, I wanted to say thank you to Sarah Lynn for this:
Do you like how she said that I challenge her comfort zones? Is that I nice way of saying that I push her buttons? I'll take it anyway. Now I'm supposed to pass this on to ten other bloggers--never an easy thing, because I like a) not to repeat myself from previous blog-link-posts and b) to showcase something that you might not already be aware of. But given recent scheduling constraints I haven't been tracking down the new and wonderful much lately, so I'm a bit stumped. Let's see if I can get to ten today: 1. Sci Fi Novelists, a group blog by a bunch of published novelists who mostly write about writing and writing-related things, which is a great joy to read and very motivational, if only because all of the writer-bloggers are so normal and all work in different ways. 2. Toronto Craft Alert, which is exactly what it sounds like. Fun fun fun. 3. Casey doesn't post enough anymore, but when she does, it's worth it. Read back a few to find her posts about depression as a mental illness (or not). 4. Apophenia because she writes about social network sites (blogs, myspace, facebook, etc.) and she knows what she's talking about, unlike a lot of the head-up-the-ass baseless opining that goes on elsewhere in the blogosphere. Sorry. I know head-up-the-ass baseless opining is a favourite passtime in some parts, and I'm not innocent of it myself, but that doesn't mean that any of us actually have a clue. 5. Feminist SF Carnival. We're out there. 6. Don't we all already love Jen? It's not just that she writes about homelessness and poverty from a position of knowledge and empathy, but that she does it with a novelist's eye for detail and imagery. Hmm. I think six will have to be enough. How about this: if there's someone you think I'm missing, you can fill out slots 7-10 in the comments. Posted by Andrea at January 30, 2008 10:31 AM under Web EMAIL this entry (comments fields are below this section) Comments A, Posted by: jen at January 30, 2008 12:59 PM
You are very welcome. It was well deserved. Posted by: Andrea
Thanks! Posted by: Casey at January 31, 2008 8:40 AM
I Googled Apophenia (because the link is to Bloglines) and I'm reeling in a Highlander kind of "there can only be one" way. Your writing styles are so similar it makes my head spin. Posted by: bubandpie at January 31, 2008 2:25 PM
1. Woops, thanks, I fixed the link. 2. Really? Huh. I like her, so I'll say thank you. Posted by: Andrea
No, no, my buttons are harder to push than that. :) It's just that I used to think a lot more about the environment and consumerism than I do now. Over time, I've become complacent. Before children, I thought nothing of spending a Friday night at Borders with my husband and spending $100 between us. More recently, it's not unusual to spend a few hundred dollars at Target a month, and be a little lazy with some of the recycling (especially the junk mail, which I just want to throw away and get out of the house immediately). And, though it happened gradually, I realize that most of the people I hang around with are a lot like me. In addition to hearing about your life with Francis and reading your inspiring posts about writing, I enjoy the way you push me to remember that there are other principles that are more important than the day-to-day complacent middle class lifestyle I've slipped into, not least of which is the environment. Posted by: Sarahlynn at February 4, 2008 1:59 PM
SarahLynn, trust me, I'm not perfect on this myself, it is STILL easy for me to spend $100 at a bookstore without thinking about it. In fact, despite the shopping ban, guess what I did this weekend? But thank you. :) Posted by: Andrea
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