today I have mostly been reading short fiction

[kaberett]

As I think I mentioned I have instituted, in my notebook, a Running List Of Unread E-mail And Tab Counts. I started the month with 782 tabs open in my browser; I am presently at 673.

Part of the problem is that I have been an Alex of Very Little Brain for some time now, so I have probably several hundred academia-related tabs open for when I can muster the focus to actually read paper abstracts and work out if they're relevant to me.

There is the not unrelated problem, also, that I tend to find short fiction Difficult -- my best guess is that's because of all of the task-switching involved. Nonetheless there are a lot of people whose short fiction I really do enjoy if I can get myself to settle down to it, and today has mostly been a case of gradually working my way through some of those tabs.

Highlights so far include John Chu's Beyond the El, Yoon Ha Lee's The Second-Last Client, and SL Huang's As the Last I May Know. (From the datestamps in those URLs you can tell how long I've had them sitting open...)

On a tangentially related topic: those of you in the US and possibly in NAm more generally, there's currently a Pratchett Humble Bundle on. (ALAS I appear to be region-locked out of it.)

Comments

[cesy]

Wow, that's a lot of tabs you've dealt with

[kaberett]

SO MANY.