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So, there's a woman who is currently consulting at work for a project that is somewhat aligned to my area, and we've done a bit of work together. I thought she was quite cute (and bright, onto-it and all that other nice stuff), and over the last couple of weeks have actually thought about doing something about it. (It's ALIIIIIVE!)

However, before deciding whether to suggest grabbing an after-work vino one day, or something like, I decided to do a bit of Google investigation. OMG, I am so glad I did. Married, kids, Catholic (or at least sends the kids to a Catholic school).

Well, that would have been embarrassing. And to be honest, while I can be clueless when someone's giving me a vibe, if I actually do get a vibe, there is normally something going on. She gets all playful and giggly around me, and she most certainly isn't in the general context (although not humourless, it must be said). Meh, perhaps some girly bonding in the blokey work environment.

C'est la vie. Onwards, and all that. :-)

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And that's pronounced the English way, with a short "a", as in tw-at, rather than my kiwified "twot".

So, yeah, here's me announcing to [livejournal.com profile] damned_colonial a couple of weekends back in a rather sentitious way that I didn't really consider myself fannish. Yeah, I read SF/fantasy, but I subscribe to precisely one author-related mailing list, belong to precisely one L/J author community ([livejournal.com profile] lmbujold), and have a newsfeed from precisely one author's blog. The last TV I saw (or downloaded) was the last Doctor Who, and the one before that was Firefly. I have not read any Whovian fanfic. I read a bit of Firefly fic, and those written by people in my friends list. I hate Star Trek (well, maybe "hate" is too strong a word; I'm vastly indifferent to any of its permutations, and I hate Trekkies who engage in mob behaviour). I have been to one science-fiction (or any other non-work-related) convention, purely because LMB was the GoH.

Blah de blah, wankitude.

But. Oh my god, BUT. Joan D. Vinge is coming to town. JOAN VINGE is coming to CANBERRA. She is going to be GoH at Conflux, the Canberran sci-fi convention.

And all I can say is *SQUEE!*, with a big *SQUEEE!!!11!!* on top. Yes, I submit and reclaim my inner fan.

Looks like I'll be doubling my convention attendance, then.

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