My apartment is Very Clean. -Floors all scrubbed/vacuumed -Laundry done, folded, put away -Fern trimmed, all fern fronds vacuumed up -Toilet cleaned, along with rest of small room -Shower/tub/sink cleaned, and rest of second small room (Victorian apartment, split bath) -Surfaces dusted -Windowsills vacuumed And, yeah. Finished the potato chips, hit the pistachio ice cream […]
Just heard from Jay…his thoracoscopic surgery is scheduled for Wednesday, November 25th at OHSU in Portland. The day before Thanksgiving. He’ll be in the hospital probably until the weekend. More details to come, but I wanted to get the word out. Alas, this means that OryCon is out for us. But the good news is,
Someone else wrote a long and thoughtful post today. Mom, he’s not kidding about the TMI part (which somehow does not come through when I link it, the cut vanishes…hmmm). You are hereby warned.
I went to my first writers conference in, it must have been the spring of 2006. The San Francisco Writers Conference. I knew not a soul, not a single soul. But it was in my home town, and it looked like it would be a reasonably good conference, so I thought it would be a
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WOW, am I tired. Four days of nonstop partying networking very seriously with drunken overgrown adolescents* industry movers and shakers really takes it out of a person. I’m sorry, I cannot even begin to describe it. I am still trying to process and remember everything. I halfway wish WFC could be a week long–but then
Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes yesterday!! It was truly a fun and fantastic day, start to finish. I’d tell you all about it, but then I’d have to kill you, and I just don’t have time for that. 🙂 Suffice it to say, it’s really thoughtful of the WFC organizers to have this
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Yesterday morning I did my packing and organizing and hunting and gathering, then drove down to San Jose. Got here around 1, tired and stressed and demoralized. An hour with Jay and that was completely turned around. Then we went down to the bar and immediately jumped into the fray. The plan was to have
Well, despite all the busy, I’ve been feeling rather more isolated these last two days than is probably good for me. It’s nobody’s fault–just, lots going on, accidents of timing, etc. But now it stops: I’m heading down to San Jose as soon as I can get everything done here, where I will find Jay,
I’m back at the Day Jobbe today for just one day before heading off to World Fantasy tomorrow. I can’t decide if this is crazy or not. I’ve been swamped with little (and not so little) urgent things that have kept me busy all day, so I guess that’s good. Unless they are *so* urgent