Words Written:
Monday: DFL 802
Tuesday: DFL 372 and finished Phae’s novella critique
Wednesday: DFL 868

Wow. Why is the weekend over already? I just got started! (I wrote this part on Monday...)

PSA: Pamie of pamie.com does a book drive every year, usually to help a library, but this year it’s going towards books and school supplies for victims of the tsunami.

Although she hasn’t written much lately, Pamie has maintained one of the funniest, smartest blogs out there. She even wrote a book based on some of it, which I’ve been meaning to pick up. Recommended—but be prepared to get sucked in.

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A young Joseph Stalin looked curiously like Johnny Depp. Interesting.

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I finished reading Phae’s novella on Sunday, but didn’t have time to put my notes in a coherent order, so I figured I’d do it Monday evening. However, Monday evening, after cleaning the cat boxes (and the area around them) and taking out the trash and recycling and eating dinner, I spent more time on the phone with Ken than I’d planned, so I didn’t get to the crit. I did it on Tuesday morning in the carpool, which is why my Tuesday word count is low. That, and I was really sleepy on Tuesday. I went to bed a bit earlier, thank goodness. (I also went to bed too late on Sunday, prompting me to sleep an extra 15 minutes, which threw off my schedule so much that I had to meet the carpool in Ventura.) (I’m sure all of this is utterly fascinating to you. Nevermind. Onwards.)

Yesterday (was it only yesterday? I’m not sure anymore) the first thing I saw in e-mail was something from Phaedra, which sent me to yahoogroups (because I get my lists as digests, so I get messages later than those who get them individually). For personal reasons, the September OCW workshops have been cancelled. Damn. That would have been the last ones in the workshop house, and Phae and I were both signed up for them (a novel workshop and a genre structure workshop). I’ve been moved to the November ones, but she can’t go to those. There’s a novel workshop in January, and both workshops in March. So we’re looking ahead to figure out what to do. I find myself leaning towards doing both in November, if only to make sure I get the genre structure one in case future ones get cancelled. Then again, Phae and I are contemplating a Thelma-and-Louise-style road trip at some point, with her flying to LA and then the two of us driving to Oregon. Hee. Be very afraid.

Dunno. It’ll all fall into place eventually. I’m just going to keep plugging away at various projects and go to as many novel workshops as I can! (Right now, it looks like I’ll have three new books by the end of the year, gods willing. Kind of scary. More so exciting!)

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I have determined that the birds of prey I frequently see outside my window at work are turkey vultures. I will note, however, that since I brought binoculars in, they’ve been suspiciously scarce.

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Elisabeth (the other SCAdian in the office) and I have been walking every day, doing laps around the parking lot. Quite nice. It’s getting a little warm, but we’ll persevere as long as we can.

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In other exciting-only-to-me news, a scribe has been assigned to do my Dolphin scroll! (The Order of the Dolphin of Caid is the AoA-level service award in the Kingdom, and I received it about 8 years ago.) (If all that was gibberish to you, just continue on to the next paragraph, because none of this is something you’ll be interested in…) She offered to do it in the style of the Lindisfarne Gospels or the Book of Kells, but I’m trying to track down the Welsh manuscript from roughly the same time period so she can use that for inspiration (my leather Baronial coronet has designs from that manuscript). I know what magazine the article about the manuscript is in; I just have no idea where the magazine is. Argh!

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I talked to Ken for a long time tonight, until my brain turned to mush. So I’m going to bed now. G’night.

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Currently Reading: something by Heather Graham
Lately Listened To: Styx, Big Bang Theory (obsessively)
Recently Watched: “Tru Calling”