Trying to write the "Medicine Show" chapter due at the end of the month, but instead I keep looking around at Kurt Vonnegut obits.

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, ( Read more... )

Reading some really terrible job postings.

Do you like to spend your days bouncing off the walls with smart people? Do you have so many ideas that you oftentimes feel like sticking your head in a paint can and shaking it out on a blank canvas? Are you fabulous? If you just thought to yourself, How did they know? Then you may want to consider... ( Read more... )

Yikes. Almost six months since the last entry ( Read more... )

As a writer, I am ashamed of the pun above.

But as writer with no shame at all, I present the evidence of my pimpage. Specifically, the pimpage of my first paid published work of fiction- The Medicine ShowI'm chapter 8 I believe. And it was rather fun taking together all the errant pieces of previous chapters and fitting them into some semblance ( Read more... )

So Dad was discharged out of the hospital as of yesterday. She's doing well and everything went well and basically we'll be home come Sunday.Yesterday was basically hospital discharging and consultations and showing dad what she has to do for maintenance for the next few days for the new genitalia ( Read more... )

My brother found the website of the OTHER documentary being filmed here.

Best Kept Secret.

I feel guilty, but I actually find the subject matter of that a bit more fascinating than the "transexual surgery video journal" that ours is doing. Just the Story page alone answers a lot of questions I had about the town.

Pros of Trinidad ( Read more... )

Jon ans I just came back from a 24 hour Wal-Mart looking for a "Baby's First Step" book, so we could cross off the first word, replace it with "Tranny's", and give it to dad when they get her up to walk for the first time tommorow. Sadly, there weren't any ( Read more... )

All went well. Dad's peppy and happy, albeit sore and hooked up to tubes. We're all pretty exhausted actually. I may sleep in this spare ER chair.

So here we are in the hospital waiting around for dad to come out of surgery. The one camera guy just walked out in scrubs galore and told us that thing were going very well and Dr. Bowers looked very pleased, so that's a good sign. She'll be in there for another hour or so I think ( Read more... )