ALNM: 357

Ack. The Caid list has exploded, in two different directions. I should just core-dump the messages, oh I should. I get so stressed and so sad at the discourteous e-mails being thrown about as well as so frustrated at people not reading what was written, but was they perceived was written or what the words meant.

I want to just walk away from e-mail for awhile, but I have a back-up In Box and a full Drafts folder and thus I can’t. But I can lament.

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Damn! Just made one of my fastest sales ever! Sold a reprint of “Artistic License” to Erotic Fantasies: Tales of the Paranormal, in about an hour. Yay me.

I’ve finished organising and sending out any languishing stories. I have to think about a few anthos with fast-approaching deadlines (like, Monday and Tuesday) but I’m not stressed about any of them.

Not so fast on the sale. The contract listed another anthology, for less money. Er, no. I’ve written back to the editor; we’ll see what happens.

‘Round late afternoon, my brain refused to send any more signals to my fingers with regards to answering e-mails, so I took a wonderful, refreshing swim in the perfectly temperatured pool. Lay on a pool float and drifted… Then I sat in the hot tub and finished the book I was reading (Dry Water by Eric S. Nylund—interesting stuff), then swam again, and then showered and considered my “spa break” finished. Made kielbasa and red potatoes and broccoli (the latter two with lemon-chive butter) for supper. Watched some TV. Talked to Ken about going to a big Beemer rally in TN in late August (and various sidetrips attached) and upcoming contract-work trips. What a lovely, lovely day it’s been.

Drat it. ALNM was going well, and then I came to a screeching halt. I have no idea what happens next. I mean, I know what happens in the characters’ lives, but I don’t know if the next few events should be written out or summarized. I think I’ll have to sleep on it. Now I don’t know what to write on, though. Very irksome. Maybe it’s time to curl up in bed with a good book (to read)…