"the heat and humidity always break after Labor Day"

[arduinna]

That's what we tell people around here; sure, July and August can be brutally hot and humid, and leave you wilting like old lettuce. But come September, the air dries out, the temps drop into the utterly pleasant range between cool and warm, and the sunlight turns from glaring to mellow gold and lovely.

It is a dastardly LIE, I tell you, at least if today is any indication.

I was going to talk about the Critique panel at VVC, but it's broiling hot and my brain has melted, so maybe not the best day to delve into that. So then I thought, well, watch some vids, and talk about them!

... yeah, no, melted brain. Vids pretty?

So then I thought, maybe I could write a drabble or something. Shake off some of the rust before Yuletide, or spark the ability to maybe try the 10 in 10 challenge. Then I went trawling through the POI kinkmeme for ideas, where I've been trapped for ages now, opening prompts in tabs but without the brain to do anything about them.

Woe.

Yeah, I think that's all I got tonight: vids pretty, writing hard.

Comments

[resonant]

"the heat and humidity always break after Labor Day"

Yeah, they used to say that when I lived in North Carolina, too.

I suppose that, strictly speaking, Halloween is after Labor Day.

[arduinna]

heeeeeee

See, North Carolina at least has a reason! But I'm in Massachusetts -- we're harvesting fall apples and watching the leaves turn already!

(Okay granted, it has since cooled off and dried out quite a bit, and I have happily broken out the pajama pants to lounge around in again, instead of shorts and a tank top that still weren't cool enough. But still. It's the principle of the thing.)

[klia]

I'm definitely interested in your take on the critique panel. I read someone's notes (I forgot whose), but it was kind of difficult to get a sense of what was actually discussed, and what attendees took away.

[arduinna]

Done! I'm not sure if I was any clearer, despite rambling on for ages; it wasn't really a panel where there were any answers, just a lot of talking and general feel that critique is valuable and difficult. *g* But it was a high-energy panel - hm, let me qualify that by saying it wasn't high-energy in the sense of people bouncing around and squeeing, like some panels are, but there was a lot of intensity and focus. Everyone there seemed to care a lot.