First of all--it looks like the next issue of Say... magazine, which will include my story "The Little Tailor", is going to be delayed until May (and WisCon!). Fine by me, since that's my birthday weekend--getting a story published then just feels like an extra gift! (Although it makes me even more sad that I won't be able to go to WisCon...most frustratingly, this year I'll even be in the Midwest that weekend, in next-door Michigan, but scheduling considerations just won't work out for it.)

Sadly, the sickness hasn't gone away--my new best guess is that it might be a sinus infection? Tomorrow I'm going to give in and go to the doctor (as I probably should have done last week). With luck, by tomorrow night I'll be sucking down antibiotics and feeling better.

I'm midway through Chapter Eighteen of The Music of the Stars and working on catch-up research. Has anyone ever walked around an olive grove? If you ever have, can you tell me what it smells like? I've seen pictures, but...