{"id":11804,"date":"2016-05-01T18:29:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T22:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11804"},"modified":"2016-05-01T18:29:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T22:29:32","slug":"april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11804","title":{"rendered":"April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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April went by pretty quickly, huh?<\/p>\n

I spent about a week of it in Atlanta, visiting the campuses of Emory, Georgia State, and Georgia Tech for work. I didn’t see a whole lot of the city, unfortunately, though I did get to sit in a lot of local traffic and visit the downtown aquarium while I was in town. (The former is formidable, ridiculous even, while the latter was a little disappointing, considering how much it cost just to get into the place.) I think I’ve been to Georgia before, this was the first time in a long while that it wasn’t just a short layover between two flights.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in April, I only managed to finish reading one book, Charlie Jane Anders’ All the Birds in the Sky<\/i>. I didn’t love everything about it, but it was a fun first novel, and I think it successfully merged the sci-fi and fantasy elements in an interesting and unique way.<\/p>\n

I also only managed to read twenty-nine short stories, down from my one-a-day average, but that’s only because I accidentally skipped three separate days in the month. My favorites included:<\/p>\n