Is there any such thing as geek street cred?

One of the reasons it's been hard to keep up with th blog (besides, you know, the whole full-time job and two children) is that I often have way too many projects going on at once.  Sometimes those projects result in all kinds of geeky awesomeness.

• Today I have a post up at the Hooded Utilitarian blog on Race in the Comics Classroom
• I have been cited (along with Alison) in a Wikipedia article on Joanna Russ
• And, perhaps, coolest of all, Conversations with Octavia Butler was nominated for a Locus Award, which is kind of a big deal

If only any of this meant I got to spend my summer doing something other than driving children to and from various water- and sport-related events.  Alas.