I feel stupid with lack of sleep. I have class tonight (second night). I still don't have a book, evidentally the shipment got lost.

I'm dreading going to class but only because I'm sooo sleepy. I like the professor, this is the only class he teaches (like my previous instructor) HOWEVER! he is vastly different. The class is Intro to Computers. There is no final. There are 5 tests, portions of which are open note, if material is not covered in the lecture it will not be on the test. He said he's not going to waste his time reading through the book to pick out answers we'll probably just get wrong anyway.

He really knows his stuff when it comes to computers, unlike the woman I took the class from back in the early 90s who was obviously just barely above the learning curve of the class. I don't think I earned any bonus points but I definitely surprised him when he started talking about Amigas and I raised my hand and said I'd used them before. (back in the early 90s when I dated a guy who had one).

Oh and we have to do a Power Point presentation (he said "on anything" but I'm sure there are more parameters) but we don't have to present it, just save to disc and turn into him.

we have to do a Power Point presentation (he said "on anything" ...)

xkcd

HA!

We aren't actually doing a presentation in class. He said too many students got flustered and anxious so we just turn it into him. I'm actually thinking about doing it on the Writers Strike.

Go Thailand! Choose Thailand!

Alas, I have no photo of the Batslash T shirt. Surprisingly I can, in fact, put it on, although it's way too tight for me to actually wear it in public. It's long-sleeved, and has the picture on both front and back, and it is made of awesome. Although I wish it weren't white.

Oh! Hang on - maybe I can make a photo! Because the MacBook can do that, can't it?

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Aha! Batslash T shirt! (Looking most unbecomingly tight, for which I apologise, but y'all are family and thus I shall not scream in horror at being seen in (1) a T shirt and (2) a horribly tight thing. Because the point is - BATSLASH!!!

NB - The Photobooth thingy creates mirror images, so it's actually the other way round. If you see what I mean?

Oh, Fay! That's such a fun shirt!

Hivemind advice request:

I'm a regular commenter on an authors' group blog (Risky Regencies), and they've invited me to have my blog added to their links section. Which is cool, because most if not all of their other "friend of" links are from published people. Anyway, they've given me the option of listing it by my name or by my blog title, Conversations With Dead People. (Yes, I stole it from the Buffy episode, but it seemed fitting for someone who reads a lot of history and engages in mental arguments with the Duke of Wellington, among others, on a regular basis.)

So. My name is how blog readers know me from the comments, but Conversations With Dead People is catchier. Which will get me more views?

That is a great shirt.

I don't have an answer , Susan, but how do you want people to know you?

When I scan a links list I'm more likely to click on titles than names unless a name is intriguing.

how do you want people to know you?

Well, if/when I sell a book I'm planning to publish under my own name, unless my publisher says, "But, Susan, you've written an adventure story with a pair of male leads. Men will love this, but men only read books by other men, so you need a male pen name." In which case I will get one, but go out of the way to make my real identity an open secret and go to panels at cons and such wearing tight, cleavage-y shirts and open all my keynote speeches with, "Bet you never guessed Pen Name had such a nice rack." Because if I'm ever a really-truly author I don't want to hide my light, nor my breasts, under a bushel.

Or something like that.

Anyway, in the long run I want people to know me by my name.

I would use the name you post under. People who like your posts will visit your blog. Later they will rec you to others and then everyone will say, "Susan over at CWDP says..."