Ramblings about newslettering

skuf has an interesting poll here about fandom newsletters. I read the fill-in answers and the anonymous discussion threads with interest, and noticed that a reoccurring "complaint" seems to be newsletters tend to favor toward certain things, be they genres, pairings, or overall bias in reccing.

This got me thinking — and in fact I've had thoughts about newslettering for a long time now (and was great to get to talk about this with other fellow newsletter editors at r_becca's newsletter roundtable at Phoenix Rising) — why do people assume newsletter editors have the time to read every single fandom LJ account in the intarwebs? I'm glad the daily_snitch is not a rec newsletter, because I simply don't have the time to read all the fics that are posted in a day, never mind sifting through them to select recs. But even doing the meta/news/non-fic links alone, each issue takes me hours do compile. I almost always (barring RL busyness) go out of my way to look for links outside of reading my own flist or the Snitch's watcher journal. But I'm just one person, I can't know that someone who posts about RL stuff 99% of the time just happens to post something fannish and linkable today, and oops I missed it but instead linked to posts by "popular" LJers or slashers.

I've said this before, and would probably say it again in the future: if you see something that might be of interest, e-mail the links/recs/suggestions to the appropriate newsletter! Seriously, newsletter editors don't bite. In fact, every single one of them that I've met has been of the nicest group of HP fans I've had the pleasure to get to know.

</rant> (not directed against anyone in particular; in fact, I'm feeling more amused than annoyed)

The Month of Visiting

A whrilwind summary of my social life (yes, despite having two jobs, I do still have one of those ;)

C, a friend I'd met in a conference last year, was in NYC on a business trip. She called me up and we ended up going to Max Brenner -- a chocolate restaurant (yummmm) -- for dinner/dessert Thursday night. I only got something like 4 hours of sleep as a result, and I spent the following day in a sleep-deprived haze. But it was great meeting her though!

Friday night was spent with college friends. Two of my college friends who recently got married, A and M (not to be confused with the other A and M, who are also good college friends but they got married last September), were in town and organized a last-minute get together for dinner and hangout. I was already surviving on extremely little sleep so I passed on the hangout part. But a group of about 10 of us ate at Patsy's Pizza and I was both stuffed and had a wonderful time reliving days of the ol'Big Red.

Yesterday I came home after work and slept for 12 hours straight. *ded*

verdenia is in the city again and we're meeting up tonight! This time, I get to meet her for dinner without having to worry about going home for sleep, since I don't have to open tomorrow. I'm thinking about bringing her to a nearby Tibetan restaurant that I like, Tsampa.

Dad's visiting from Hong Kong. He's a former New Yorker so no need to show him around. In fact, he's already made a reservation for us at his favorite steakhouse, Broadway Joe Steakhouse, for next Thursday night. And then I'll be tagging along with him to Puerto Rico for a conference of his. Fringe benefits of having an academic in the family *g*

physibeth will also be visiting NYC! I haven't seen her in years, so I'm really excited about this. Hopefully we'll get to meet up.

*checks list*

I think that's it. Anyone else visiting NYC that I don't yet know about? 'Tis the season of visiting, apparently.