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[jazzfish]

The Viable Paradise twenty-year reunion occurs this October. It appears that there are still spots and hotel rooms available, at least for another twenty-four hours.

I suppose I ought to decide if I'm going.

Pros:

• A chance to see people that I've not seen in years, and miss.
  
• I'm planning on going back east this fall anyway.
  
• Autumnal Massachusetts.
  
• I felt like me when I was at VP.
  

Cons:

• It costs money. This is more in the nature of an excuse than an actual con.
  
• It takes time away from a potential Blacksburg trip. Meh. B'burg will still be there next year.
  
• I might need my vacation time to pack/move. Ha. I mean, maybe, but planning around the Vancouver real estate market suddenly becoming a little more rational strikes me as a fool's game.
  
• "So, what have you done writing-wise in the last five years?" "Well, for three years I was finishing up burning myself out, and then I spent a year mostly-recovering from that. And now I'm not sure but I might be burning out again. So, not much."
  
• "Oh, and I haven't been able to expand/fix that story you said you liked, either. I did finish a couple of other stories, but I seem to have run out of markets for them to get rejected from."

Bah. The cons are all along the lines of being afraid of not being a Real Writer. Which is a real fear but probably not worth skipping the reunion.

Besides, maybe the impending need to have something to show off will push me to get somewhere with this %&$ novel.