...hello new.

Fighting exhaustion again. Or still, maybe. I’ve had a bit of a head cold the last few days, and it’s finally started to clear. Not soon enough to keep R from getting it, but oh well ( Read more... )

Looks like a rapidly filling up movie season in front of us. Friday is Serenity. Sometime in October is Wallace and Gromit and Shopgirl, and November is Chicken Little. 11/18 is both Harry Potter 4 and Walk the Line. 11/25 (Xgiving weekend) is Rent. 12/9 (I think) is Lion Witch and Wardrobe and Memoirs of a Geisha. 12/16 is King Kong, and 12/ ( Read more... )

Here I sit at my temp job, drumming my fingers, getting paid for, at the moment, doing not much of anything. It may sound fun, but I'm bored as anything. I can't really do any writing; for one thing, I'm not all that comfortable here, and for another, the notebook I would do any work in is at home. And I've done all the surfing I really want to ( Read more... )

I wanted to wait a little longer and make sure it was more than definite.

I have managed to sell my first short story.

"Sea of Tranquility" will be appearing in the forthcoming edition of Confluence. It is, according to the editor, going to the printer sometime this coming week, and should be available for order by the end of October. Details ( Read more... )

Up late again without reason. Just couldn't sleep. Can't sleep. Probably will in a half an hour ( Read more... )

So we -- R and I -- discovered something quite by accident at one of our favorite eateries a month ago. The eatery in question is Memphis Smoke in Royal Oak. Which, you know, Royal Oak may or may not border on Yuppieville, but that doesn't mean the food isn't good, and I rather like barbecue flavors. And hey, beef and ribs. Can't go wrong ( Read more... )

As it happened, I sent in "Oh, the Places You'll Go," under that title (instead of "Layover"), to my mentor for workshopping. Which, immediately afterwards, I was second-guessing. Usually, to me, that's a good sign. This time, maybe my pessimism has gotten the better of me, but I don't feel quite the same way. If there's an upshot (and I like ( Read more... )

And here I sit at home, doing laundry. 9.45 on a Wednesday morning ( Read more... )

This is a post I’ve been meaning to make for awhile now, a week anyway, but I just haven’t found the energy to sit down and make it. As you’ll pick up from the time stamp on it, it’s late Monday night/Tuesday morning, a full week since I’ve gotten back from Jersey, and given how much energy I’ve had lately to want to do much of anything, I’ve had ( Read more... )