Following the Wakes of Others

I attended a wake of sorts two weekends ago for a fellow member of the Ottawa Science Fiction Society, a lady who went by several names during her life, and wrapping her life up as Sansoucy Walker at her death. Her family and friends had been expecting this for a fair while, so while the timing of the death surprised them, the mere fact of it did not. If you've picked up a copy of one of the several editions of L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future or Tesseracts 5, you'll have seen samplings of her fiction work under the name "Sansoucy Kathenor".

If there's a continually annoying truth about the deaths of others, it's that you learn more after the dead become thus than they -- or the fates, if you will -- told you during their lives. I knew something of her work with gems and writing, but not her experiences with archeology or aviation, for example. She served in the Canadian Forces, and actually flew fighter planes on an experimental basis at a time when few women went anywhere near the cockpits. Her modelling days? Likewise unknown to me until the wake.

It leaves me wondering about the inevitable question arising from these musings, to be honest.

Transit - Retroactively Updated with an Apology

I just got the word: the OC Transpo bus drivers are now On Strike.

Dammit. My sense of environmental responsibility turned into a knife in my own economic guts for the second time in my life since moving to Ottawa.

Hoping it ends soon. Preferably within days...if not hours.

Update:

I was given incorrect info. My apologies for the screw-up.

Mood update: Still mildly annoyed...and somewhat worried that the strike may yet happen.

The Last Spike...er, Page

Sorry for invoking Pierre Berton like that, may he rest at ease, but it seemed like a good idea.

Finally e-mailed off the last of the sample pages for Retail Therapy to writer Arune Singh and colorist Nancy Champion today. Ten pages of script translated into artwork.

Now we wait.

Meantime, I have a space opera to finish writing. There's some expositional material I want to rewrite so that it won't feel quite so much like an infodumping session, and some backgrounding to throw in as well as take out. Lots of cleaning up to do on this draft while I await the verdicts...