CLS: Tempus fugit
by Rob - June 16th, 2009.Filed under: CLS.
Carolyn and I have been in Saskatoon for two full weeks now. Incredibly, my writer-in-residence gig at the Canadian Light Source, Canada’s national synchrotron, is already one-quarter over.
But what a two weeks it’s been. During it, I:
- Did safety training at CLS
- Was interviewed by CBC Radio One in Saskatoon
- Was interviewed by CBC Televison (the story carried
nationally) - Was interviewed by CTV News Saskatoon
- Was interviewed by Shaw Cable Saskatoon
- Did a pre-interview for a documentary about the CLS
- Did a podcast (about which more later) related to Wake
- Attended Edward Willett’s book launch at McNally Robinson
- Had my own book launch for Wake at cNally Robinson (and hit #2 on the Saskatoon StarPhoenix bestsellers’ list
- Attended a dinner party at Yann Martel and Alice Kuipers’ place
- Attended a barbecue at Matthew Dalzell’s place (Matt’s my supervisor at CLS)
- Gave two one-hour how-to-write seminars at CLS, one on generating story ideas and the other on how to start a story
- Gave a talk at a local high school (Centennial Collegiage)
- Gave talk to the Saskatoon Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
- Gave a talk to the computer-science department at the University of Saskatchewan
- Flew to Calgary for this past weekend
- Attended VulCON 16: Spock Days / Galaxyfest in Vulcan, Alberta
- Attended (and gave a reading at) the big season launch party for EDGE Publishing in Calgary
- Did 13 one-on-one hour-long consultations with local writers in Saskatoon (having read and prepared critiques of their manuscripts in advance)
- And, oh, yes, wrote the first 2,100 words of Wonder, the hird WWW novel
Whew!
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