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God, nothing's happening on my flist. Is everyone wanked out? I haven't read any of it, and it's only popped up in a couple of places on my flist but bejeezus people... really.

The registrations for Connotations 2009 are open and Alex Beecroft and I are thinking about going. Apart from being terrified about meeting online friends (because I have a 100 percent success rate of losing online friends after a face-to-face meeting) the biggest snag I can see is that you have to "suggest a panel" now, register and pay now (as the Great North Run is happening at the same time) but the panels aren't voted on and decided upon until August. So I could pay around £140 plus travel - which I really can't afford - for one night's stay and then find out that they haven't accepted our panel. I suppose it might be a good networking thingy anyway, but I really don't know. The UK drives me mad because we simply don't have the network of conventions that the USA has. We have hundreds of "literary festivals" but these consist of Celebrities giving readings and talks and the everyday oik with a book out can't attend as a guest, you have to be invited. And there's only one festival that I know of where you can rent a stall to sell books. It sucks.

Lucius has been out all day and returned at 830pm, 3 hours after regular dinner time and is again, tired out and not hungry. Either he's been stuffing himself with mice again all day, or his other house force feeds him while putting him on a treadmill. He only ate half a pouch when he normally eats 2 and looks for a third... He's a horror.

Watched disc 1 of Angel series 5 today - SO much better than series 4 so far, just the first four episodes.

Yeah, boring today. Sorry.