2002 summary

After I Blather tomorrow, I will have successfully posted a Blatherings entry for every day in 2002.

Overall, it's been a pretty good year for me. My first year of fulltime freelance writing, a year of finally tying up loose bureaucratic threads left from Inkspot, visits from Jeff Bohnhoff, Andrea and Dave Clement, my 40th birthday party and my virtual birthday party, jumped in an icy lake, I took up running (and went on my first organized run), visited the Synders in California courtesy the Conchord concom, wrote 50,000 words in thirty days, saw the Queen, visited Mark Osier in Syracuse, NY. Started summarizing my dot-com adventures: here and here.

Conventions I attended in 2002:
Ad Astra, FKO, Marcon (where I jammed with Richard Hatch from Battlestar Galactica! Thanks to Gary E. for the photo), Conchord (Urban Tapestry was the Guest of Honor), and OVFF.

Conventions I plan to attend in 2003:
Ad Astra* (Mar.21-12, Toronto), FilKONtario (Mar.28-30, Toronto), Concertino* (Jul.18-20, Massachusetts), Torcon* (Aug.28-Sept.1), OVFF (Oct.24-26 in Columbus OH, though I may end up going to Conclave (Oct.17-19, Lansing, MI) instead), Gathering of the Fellowship* (Dec.15-17, Toronto). Conventions marked with an asterisk (*) are events where Urban Tapestry be performing.

2003: big year for Urban Tapestry!
Next year, we're releasing our new CD, Sushi and High Tea, through Dodeka Records. It's also our tenth year anniversary! I think it will be very cool to celebrate this anniversary by releasing a new album. I'm also going to start working on a new Urban Tapestry songbook, but I'm not making any promises about when it'll be ready.

In general, I'm happier this year than I was last year, and MUCH happier than the year before. I'm going to do what I can to ensure that this trend continues. :-)

Links/Updates:

Post your New Year's Resolutions here. Anyone posting at least one serious resolution before the end of the 2002 gets a prize! I'll be mailing them out sometime in January. People qualifying so far: Ee Lyn Wong, Heather Munn, Susanna, Gea, Katy, Allison, Gary, Bill, Scott Snyder, Heather Borean, Lyanne, Silmarien, Sherman Dorn, The Magician, Cynthia Armistead, Meritmaat, Lissa, Gemini.

Still need addresses from:
Ee Lyn Wong, Susanna, Gea, Katy, Gary, Bill, Heather Borean, Gemini. Please do send them to me when you have a chance, thanks. I have addresses for some of you which I suspect are defunct.

Post your predictions for 2003 here.

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Today's Blatherpics:

My friend Reid, being Santa at his son's school. Apparently the Santa that was supposed to show up had to cancel at the last minute. See Reid's journal entry.