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I am not getting sick, dammit. NOT. Stupid air conditioning anyway.

Back at work; many people have commented on how relaxed I look. Yay? Wonderful what a day at the cottage will do -- must find some nice copy editing that will take me a whole day so I can work on it up there.

Toronto Trek was fun although somewhat stressful and very tiring. I will have a massive report to write. Trying to focus on all the stuff that went well, instead of all the things where I thought "damn, why didn't we do X instead?" I got to a whole half a panel. One must start somewhere. Wandered around Saturday babysitting the TV crew that was making an episode at the con; they went away happy and at some point I'll be showing up on TV. Eeeeeek. At least it's digital cable.

Cranky, bless her, came and helped out. I've now linked up a few more faces with names and vice versa. *waves at ozreison and boywhocantsayno*

Caught the tail end of Denise Crosby's main-stage appearance in addition to her press conference that morning (spent a lot of time not saying to the assembled lazy-ass press "Well, if you had come by at 9:30 when the media office opened, you would have known when that was going to be"). And got a photo with her. She's awesome (which I figured out quite early in the morning when I spotted her hanging out with some fans at a table in Tim Horton's).

Bought some swag: buttons courtesy pretentiousgit, which are making me all happy (Cranky and I spent a lot of time in call-and-response thus:
"Gondor has no pants."
"Gondor NEEDS no pants!"), and a Rohirrim banner, which really I technically don't need but it was the only item that made me go "OH! WANT!" and I do have a house to furnish, after all. Oooh, and a T-shirt courtesy aprilsnark which says "inappropriate" on the front.

Seriously though, next time I'd like to actually have time to, oh, get to the odd panel.

Also, I want a nap.

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GAAAAH. If you are going to go to all the trouble of introducing the dorsal and ventral reading circuits, which are relatively opaque but at least snappy terms, WHY GO ON REFERRING TO THEM as the left parietotemporal (or, sometimes, temporo-parietal) reading system and the left occipitotemporal reading system? And what are the posterior systems and how many are there? And how does the left inferior frontal system fit in? And does anyone actually care?

I hate copy editing things I know nothing about. I'm not sure whether this is better or worse than immunology. Better, I think -- at least I can look at a picture of the brain when I get confused.

[Edit: Oh, good. Posterior systems up in the intro -- they are in fact the dorsal and ventral circuits. See? See?]