call it in, take it off

Hello, worldbuilders! It's been quiet here this last week, because around this time on the Sunday previous I started thinking "hmm, I don't feel so great", and by the evening I was feeling (as we Brits say) like death warmed over.

Hell knows what hit me, because seven days down the line I'm feeling mostly back to normal. But it was more than nasty enough to oblige me to cancel my talk on Monday, and to avoid attending The Conference—partly for fear of becoming The Superspreader Guy, but also because I was in no state to be out of the house.

Well, them's the breaks sometimes. There would have been no essay or interview this week anyway—because I was gonna be at The Conference, see?—but it still feels like a bit of a lost week.

weeknotes

Still, there's always the weeknotes, if you want the nitty-gritty details:

week 35 / 2024

Why do they call it “a cold” if a) you can get it in the summer, and b) it makes you feel hot and fevered? This week, things have been slow, for reasons of plague.

Worldbuilding AgencyPaul Graham Raven

Some good news in there regarding projects both ongoing and oncoming!

But that's basically all I've got for you this week, I'm afraid. Next week will be better, I'll betcha.

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Cheerio...

—pgr