Surveys tabled; Away, away to ALA

This week’s survey, and its responses:

You can be reincarnated as a literary genre. Which one?
Novel 50.0%
Creative Nonfiction 23.3%
Poem 16.7%
Short Story 10.0%
Total votes: 60

I was pleased to see so many respondents choose to be creative nonfiction. Perhaps I’ll do a subgenre survey in the future and find out how many of you want to be travel essays, portraits, memoirs, essays of opinion, etc. I have turned off surveys for now so I can continue troubleshooting my Movable Type installation.

Now off I go to ALA. I’m at the American Airlines terminal waiting for my (delayed) flight and trying not to eat my lunch before I board the plane. I have a T-Mobile wifi account I use for work purposes–primarily travel and emergency access–and I’m hunkered cross-legged on the floor near one of the few available electrical outlets in this terminal so I conserve my juice for the flight, when I plan to read every single conference document sent to me by Council and LITA. My right leg feels asleep, but when they call the flight I can hop with the other leg, and that fellow sitting next to me seems sturdy enough to lean on.

For the next week I will be blogging on the LITA blog, and zooming from meeting to event to meeting again. Expect this blog to be fairly quiet, not for lack of ideas but lack of time to work on them.

Re personal writing, I am not even going to pretend this will be a productive week for me. I’m dimly aware I have an essay due to my summer workshop advisor by midnight on Friday the 2nd; I’m a little less dimly aware I’ve written exactly one page on it and it’s a page that will go into the Out-takes file. The evening of the 1st will be a marathon! Fortunately, this first draft of this essay, on military language, will not dive into deep research-oriented directions. It’s going to be about how we dress ourselves in words.