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Iron Man (18 Iyar, 5770)
Despite my currently ticket-buying jinx, I bought a ticket to the 12:01 am showing of Iron Man on Thursday night, at the Lincoln Square/67th Street theater. I know a lot of people are going at 10 pm on Saturday night, but I'll be in NJ, about to leave for Florida ( Read more... ) -
3 Nisan, 5770
On Monday I swung by City College to drop off my resume for a Creative Writing professorship, after a suggestion from a former professor. It turned out the person in charge of hiring was ALSO a former professor who ALSO fondly remembers me (I seem to have left more of an impression than I imagined making in my 2 1/2 years there) and he called me ( Read more... ) -
21 Adar, 5770
I've been cramming my movies in to have seen at least half of the best picture nominees. 10 is just really unfair. Come on ( Read more... ) -
15 Adar, 5770
There was no "drunk post" for Purim last night, even though I was very, very drunk. I intended to do one, as people seem to like to hear me speak when I'm drunk (a friend actually requested a phone call). Two reasons I didn't: (1) I couldn't really operate my computer, and (2) Operating my computer would have involved a concentrated period of not ( Read more... ) -
3 Adar, 5770
So Greek book 2 is out for revision, Aristotle Vampire is at Katie's for another read, and book 4 of Pride and Prejudice is also at Katie's for submission to Sourcebooks to see if they'll bite. In other words, I'm between projects and bored but not willing to take anything else on at the moment ( Read more... ) -
I'm doing a reading (25 Shevat, 5770)
Next week I'm doing a reading at Perch, which is a restaurant/bar that organizes such things with a City College professor. I'm probably reading from my 10th book, as it's less dialogue-heavy than the published stuff. She said, "Bring a crowd" which was very disappointing, as getting people together is not really my thing.
But here are the details:
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13 Shevat 5770
4,021 words today. I'm still 3,000 behind where I should be at the start of Chapter 7, because of the short chapters in the beginning before I calculated everything out, but setting word goals per chapter was definitely a good thing, because it makes me draw out these insipid conversations the stupid college kids have even longer than I normally ( Read more... ) -
29 Tevet 5770
Either this virus needs to die, or I do.
Most of the work that got done this week was Fallout 3 related. I really, really tried to focus enough to work on the outline for the second Greek book, but that totally wasn't happening and whatever I submitted was probably embarrassing. Shingles has fried my brain.
I did see a doctor on Monday, when I was ( Read more... ) -
25 Tevet 5770
I'm home after a 17-hour flight (after delays, some of which were spent in the airport) and still sick with the viral throat thing. I had a great time, but I am very, very happy to be home. -
17 Tevet 5770
Looks like I'm not going to get pictures up until I get back to New York. Things are great here, though I am exhausted from all of this walking, mostly from getting lost. I'm very good at it (as are Israelis at giving misleading directions). My Hebrew is much better than I remembered. I went pretty much the whole day asking questions and ( Read more... )