At
bonacorsi's suggestion, I got out of the house (and her hair) yesterday. I went to the local sci-fi bookstore where Cory Doctorow was signing his latest book
Little Brother, which I bought and read when it came out.
It was a good idea. There were a lot of people there. Cory read the same fragment he read at SF in SF about a year ago - it didn't work as well for me this time, but that may have been because this was the third time I had heard/read it.
When I was getting the book signed, I mentioned that I live just down the street from a steep quasi-hidden staircase that appears in one scene. Turns out Cory used to live a couple blocks from us.