Happy Snak by Nicole Kimberling

[samvara]

Sweet, fun, a little bit goofy, first-contact science fiction with a tang of earthy (heh) pragmatism.

Gaia Jones just wants to run a snack bar and what better place to do it than the giant alien facility built by their brand new... 'friends?' from outer space. Her somewhat antisocial life-style takes a hit when she assists an alien with an illness and inadvertently takes on a lot more than she expected.

Mad points for plausible interesting aliens and alien contact.

Comments

[sara]

HI YOU AREN'T DEAD YAY.

*cough* Now that's out of the way, yay new book from her...I met their household at a book table at a con last year and they were all so nice. I fangirled their novels and they fangirled my suffragette cosplay.

I ATE'NT DEAD

[samvara]

Oh win, I was going to see if I liked other books since this one was so enjoyable.

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[sara]

She is a cohabitant (in some sense the ramifications of which I do not 100% understand) with Ginn Hale, who has written a bunch of iddy portal fantasies, and then there's a whole batch of stuff around food themes, some of which work better for me than others. They all live up around Bellingham somewhere.

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[samvara]

Ah, I am probably a cohabitant in some vaguely similarly applicable manner. Go her!

Hi!

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[sara]

Yeah, sometimes one finds oneself living in a queer feminist collective.

(I am currently cohabiting with my childhood best friend, both children, a (different) cat, and a dog. The best friend has a boyfriend who lives north of Seattle; I have an emotionally complex relationship with my job. Like, this shit happens.)

Re: I ATE'NT DEAD

[samvara]

In retrospect it seems inevitable! Wow, that sounds like a potentially excellent state of affairs, I hope the transition to the new cat wasn't too traumatic.

...tell me more about this job - or should i read back scroll?

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[samvara]

Holy January Batlady. Here's to bodies working and continuing to work in all possible ways.

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[sara]

Pfahaha yeah, January is fired. Honestly the last three years are fired. The entire Trump Administration has sucked balls for both me personally and the nation as a whole.

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[samvara]

Ugh. Yes. the Oz govt is no better and even more disgusting in certain ways.

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[sara]

...yeah whatever else That Bad Man has done he hasn't burned up what a quarter of the continent.

I think mostly that's because he's got no direct responsibility for wildland firefighting, mind you.

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[sara]

Yeah, it is a big improvement over transitory college student housemates. We have had a lot of traumatic transitions (death! divorce! more death! mendacity! adolescence!) and it's been Kind of A Lot but we're sticking together and keeping going.

It is the same job I took a little over five years ago, which remains Complicated.

How are you? APPARENTLY NOT ON FIRE, WHICH IS GOOD.

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[samvara]

CONGRATS on your excellent survival skills in the face of changes a depressed lemming would counsel earnestly against.

I am smoking slightly and releasing wisps of coloured steam.

2020: new meds, new job, new carpet. I got left knee osteoarthritis for christmas, and now have a lower bed :p Going to start picking my life back up and adding evidence of personhood in hopefully sensible ways.

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[sara]

oooh, osteoarthritis. It's so fun getting older. I mean it's better than death but. Yay new job and new carpet and I hope new meds are working well.

[leecetheartist]

Good to see you around!

[transcendancing]

Now adding this to my reading list.