No writing progress to report. May was one crazy month—well, you don’t care about that.

Question to the general readership: Does anyone have a quiet vacation home, not necessarily somewhere with good Internet access or more than 1x speed on Verizon, where I and my SO could spend 3-4 weeks while I just work on nothing but the final arc of HPMOR? Maybe during September, say? If so, please drop me a call at [email protected] You will get one of the last remaining cameo opportunities, and the eternal gratitude of many HPMOR readers. For optimal productivity I’m looking for a quiet location, AC if the weather goes over 80 degrees, a shower stall at least the size of a bathtub, 2 bedrooms, and solitude. Can take a plane trip in the US or Canada as required. Will pay utilities. And again, good Internet access is definitely not needed. (EDIT: I have an excellent offer! Thanks, readers!)

If you’ve been dying to have something like a MIRI technical workshop with you and some of your friends trying to make progress on our open problems, we’re now sponsoring those at other universities. Read up on MIRIx independent workshops for more info.

Upcoming CFAR workshops: Jun 6-9 (Bay Area), Jul 25-28 (Bay Area), Sep 11-14 (Bay Area), Apr 23-26 2015 (Boston).

Things I am reading: Carpetbaggers by cofax is a marvelously original-flavor continuation of the first Narnia book – what Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy went through to establish their reign over Narnia. It’s complete, though I haven’t yet finished reading. Alexanderwales continues to produce interesting rational fics, including A Bluer Shade of White (Frozen, complete) and Metropolitan Man (Superman, updating once/week). I’ve very slowly started to read Ra at QNTM (I’m on Ch. 3). And I’m sloowly making my way through the legendary Homestuck which is… Homestuck. That thing is not going to be everyone’s cuppa tea and darn me if I have any idea how to describe it; besides that it’s best read on a 10″ Android tablet using the Dolphin browser so you can read the Flash parts.

I estimate a >50% probability that the one-chapter short update, Ch. 102, will appear in July. I… hope people don’t get too worked up about this, because it’s just one chapter. But I know that far too many of you have nothing else to hope for.

Next Progress Report on July 1st, 2014, at 5pm Pacific Time.