Dear Diary

• New ceiling is in, lights are back in, painters due on Tuesday (yes I know it's Wed today *sadface*) and as they are taking FOREVER I have started painting the living room myself.
• Swancon was fun, I saw many lovely people and bought a tiny, gorgeous hat. I only went for two days and completely hit my bad touches limit after about 13 hours of constant friendly people being friendly (I have to go rest up now).
• I was on the Safe Spaces panel again and I used this to talk about how I negotiate being touch averse in a world where people use touch to say hello, I love you, I care, I want to be close to you etc. I would cheerfully defect to a country where they say this with tea and little pink cakes instead. I would bake the cakes.
• Visited brothers, delivered a lucky dip box of books I will not be keeping and watched Clash of the Titans (2010) which is fkn terrible (sorry Sam, sorry Liam). B1 has tried to not sleep through it four times now and is convinced there is no kraken. I was struck by the number of the female characters who were sexually assaulted and then punished for it as part of the plot.
• Caught up on Supernatural, Hawaii Five-0 and Doctor Who.
• Tried to buy an ebook of Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint but Amazon says Aussies can't buy. Grrrrr
• LibraryThing have introduced a fabulous new feature that tells you facts about your physical books. My book stack is higher than Niagara but not as high as the Taj Mahal. SO MUCH LOVE.
• Interestingly it also tells you how many authors in your library are of which gender. It includes a handy n/a section for such people as Jonathan Wylie (husband and wife writing team, and an other / contested / unknown section for C. Guy Clayton who I was SURE was a woman but can't find any evidence other than the fact they wrote fanfiction about the Scarlet Pimpernel from Marguerite's POV which fills me with glee. I am surprised at how many of my authors are male and am looking forward to unpacking the books I decided to keep and finding out what the new, mini library biases are.