Returning to Normal

Posted by Colin Harvey Aug 19, 2009

Those of you travel a lot know that returning from a trip is in some ways harder than actually going on it.

There's all the things that you've ignored in the last few days beforehand ("I'll do it when I get back.") There's the distraction of the trip itself. And then there's the fact that the world doesn't stop, and while you're digging yourself out from under that mountain of paperwork, other people keep adding to it.

Blogging a week in arrears has allowed me to catch up on Damage Time, and to recover the part of the file that was corrupted en route. I've almost caught up on crits for the group -- I should finish the last one tomorrow. I've even managed to keep in touch with some of the new friends from Worldcon.

But the observant among you may have noticed that the reviews have been conspicuously absent.

Part of that is because I've found it hard to read, which is unusual for me -- normally I'm a voracious devourer of books (just as well, really, for a reviewer!). Part of it is finding the time to write them.

But the reviews should resume tomorrow, and will come comparatively thick and fast between now and the end of the month.

By contrast, the blog posts will thin out a little, although con season approaches, and for the first time in many years, there'll be a con in Bristol. So expect more about that, and whatever else catches my eye.

Until then.