I spent the afternoon waiting for my driver license. From there, it was off to a doctor’s appointment at what should have been 1:30. I waited for two hours before being seen. Then it was back home where I played with the Kid, gave her a bath, and tucked her into bed.
It was a long day, even more so considering I didn’t eat breakfast until 4:30 PM. I think I’ll hit the sack now and try to recharge myself for tomorrow.
I’m online from the N.C. Department of Motor Vehicles (man, I love SprintPCS sometimes), getting ready to get my license renewed. Things went much quicker once the examiners came back from lunch.
It’s the curse of a January birthday: loads of people need new drivers licenses at the beginning of the new year. There are at least fifty people here.
My number is due up in about 15 minutes or less. Not bad. I’ve only been waiting for an hour.
Cory Doctorow, the Boing Boing blogger and EFF spokesmodel, will be in town February 5th at UNC. His talk is at 3:30, which suXORz for us working folk, but rumor has it he’ll be doing a book signing later that evening. Stay tuned for the details.
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What: A Public Talk on the Electronic Frountier Foundation and Copyright
When: Thursday February 5 at 3:30
Where: Wilson Library’s Pleasants Family Room
Cory Doctorow is Outreach Coordinator for EFF. He’s one of EFF’s
spokespeople, works on policy research and participates in standards
bodies, and works to enlist the support of other organizations in EFF’s
issues. In a previous life, he was a software entrepreneur, co-founding a
company called OpenCola. At the 2000 Hugo Awards, Cory Doctorow won the
John W. Campbell Award for best new science fiction writer. His first
novel, “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” was recently published by Tor
Books. His second novel, “Eastern Standard Tribe,” is due out March 1,
2004. He is co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing and is a frequent
contributor to Wired Magazine and the O’Reilly Network. He enjoys googling
for interesting facts about long walks on the beach.
This just in: Cory Doctorow’s short story “0wnz0red” is a finalist for the
Nebula Award in Science Fiction.
Cory’s books include:
Doctorow, Cory. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Tor Books. December
2003. Also online at http://craphound.com/down/
Doctorow, Cory. Eastern Standard Tribe. Tor Books. March, 2004.
Doctorow, Cory and Schroeder, Karl. Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing
Science Fiction. Alpha Books. 2000.
Doctorow, Cory. A Place So Foreign and Eight More. Four Walls Eight
Windows. October 2003. Also online at http://craphound.com/place/
Powers, Shelley (editor) with Doctorow, Cory et al. Essential Blogging.
O’Reilly and Associates. September 2002.
I just realized I’m scheduled for a doctor’s appointment at 1:30 that requires me to fast until then. D’oh! Fasting is Big Sux. I always try to get an 8:30 appointment if I’ve got to do it, but in the holiday rush, I missed the set up for this one. To add insult to injury, I was hoping to get my driver’s license renewed this morning.
I can just see myself in the new picture I’ll have to cart around for the next five years. There I am, gaunt and surly, looking like I want to take the photographer’s head off. Maybe I’ll even be drooling, or foaming at the mouth.
I bet I become part of the lineup for a dozen petty crimes because of this mugshot. Heh.
