• DarkScribe’s annual Black Quill awards are up for voting. If you love horror/dark fiction please go over and vote. (I’m embarrassed to say that when trying to nominate this year I discovered I read significantly less horror than I did last year.)

• Tip to the SFWA blog: Ergocise.com is a tool for writers and others whose jobs involve sitting still at a desk for hours. This free program reminds you to get up and stretch at prearranged time periods, which I’m sure we could all use.

• Kate Harding, an advocate for True Health, not health dependent on your weight has an excellent article up about Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, which mandates all students over a 30 BMI take a remedial phys ed class on the assumption that high BMI=inactive and unhealthy. The college goes to the lengths of not allowing fat students to graduate without trying to guilt them about their size. Apparently they don’t care about the health/activity level/lifestyles of skinny students, as long as they’re skinny. Clearly all skinny people are super healthy eaters and very active and all fat people do nothing but constantly eat and lay around, lazy slobs. (I hope you realize that was heavy sarcasm.)

I would be very interested in hearing other people’s thoughts on this policy. (Especially on the aspect that students who are under 30 BMI who want to take the class are not allowed to.)

• My husband has begun blogging. I would appreciate it if you could click through and give him some hits. Plus his essay on the Nine Heathen Virtues is interesting.

Edited to add:

• Why you story was rejected- an insightful look at the mix of quality and lucky issues that might be behind your rejections.

• How to waste your life- a very good, inspiring post from Jason Sanford on quality of life and our choices of actions.