Ooh, here I was thinking I was blogging two days in a row! Except, not, I realize; for last night, the across-the-street neighbors texted and said, Do you want to come to dinner? We have Air Conditioning! And we said YES, and that was the evening.
We got to know their new puppy better.
She’s not actually that small; she was sitting very still, hoping I’d feed her something. She usually looks more like this:
Cute, though!
And then this morning, I came downstairs and found what appeared to be a dead shrimp on my desk. Escaped from my desk-aquarium, you see. I went to pick it up…and it wiggled its little legs. So I plopped it back in the tank…and it swam off very excitedly, and it seems to be fine now! Go figure.
I don’t know why, or HOW, it got out of there.
Moving right along. For dinner, we made a huge salad out of Things From The Garden.
It was awesome.
Oh! And a seriously amazing writer (Nicola Griffith) wrote a seriously amazing guest post on another seriously amazing writer (and marvelous human being)’s blog (Charlie Stross) (and this is not to say that Nicola is not a marvelous human being!, because she quite obviously is!, but I haven’t met her, and I HAVE spent serious quality time with Charlie, including beer, just saying)–anyway, this is just to say: she talked about Book View Cafe, and she’s right, we ARE a pretty amazing co-op, I remain astonished and awestruck that I get to be part of BVC. It’s such a functional, groundbreaking, collaborative, smart, professional group of writers, putting out amazing work…so, thank you Nicola and Charlie for helping to let the world know about us. 🙂 YAY.
And I think that’s all the news for now. Except that I was in the weird position of trying to figure out which of my NEXT big projects to start today, because none of the remaining ones were due three weeks ago. So I picked one and started it. I’ll tell you more about it later.