Yes, my Dad told me about this! I'd love it if we could, I mean Canadians have participated in European entries, and if Australia and Israel can join Eurovision there's no reason Canada couldn't.

The first time I drove on it, suddenly a lot of Monty Python references fell into place. And not in a good way.

I suppose some of the roots of this might come from celebrity ghostwritten books, but people buy those for the celebrity's name, not because the book is any good, so again why brag about having not-written a rubbish book?

I know a lot of people with BAs in Classics who went on to thriving careers in the computing industry, because it turns out that being able to master complicated grammatical systems is a transferrable skill.

Thanks. I managed to avoid it at Worldcon, Eastercon and two separate ComicCons, I guess the odds were against me...

Aw, that's awful, sorry to hear it. But glad you haven't been infected this time round!

Again ironically, no. And I've got in touch with everyone I was in close contact with; they're all fine. I should definitely have been more careful, but I think I thought because I'd been recently vaccinated I'd be okay.

The irony is I'm testing negative today. But I wasn't yesterday, so no PictCon for me, and it's too late to get tickets to the BFI's Blake's 7 day (and I probably shouldn't risk going down anyway and barconning because I might still be infectious).