Reading: The City Below by James Carroll
Music: random jpop
TV/Movie: Reservoir Dogs
Link o' the Day: SNE (Southern New England) Bloggers

I just added this webjournal to the list at SNE (Southern New England) Bloggers. Imagine that, a page devoted to blogs based in my general area. I seem to recall seeing a RI directory of journals around someplace as well. I'm going to have to track that one down.

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It's been uber-busy lately at the old day job, and updates have been slow in coming. At home, I've finished both the Bickersons bio (which goes off to the printers tomorrow) and a volume of Bickersons scripts. I'm currently working on a Twilight Zone script book cover, and a biography of Spike Jones.

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I'm mildly irked at Gordon over at MoF&SF. I came home one day to find a small manilla envelope in my mail with a return address of Gordon Van Gelder. Not "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction", but Gordon's name. Huh, I thought, as I opened it. Did he finally buy something of mine?

Then I recalled, at the same moment I saw the contents of the envelope--I had nothing sitting in his slushpile at the moment, and this was a subscription request.

Argh, gentlemen. Powerful rats.

Okay, I get these things all the time for Asimov's/Analog, DNA Pubs, and others. I don't know if they're taking my address from the SFWA directory, or if they keep every submitter's name on file, or what, but I did feel that it was a little underhanded... making me think that it might be a contract offering _me_ money rather than the other way around.

I tend to buy MoF&SF at the newsstand if the ToC looks interesting. I have too much clutter to get away w/ too many magazine subscriptions. (Actually, they probably get more money out of me through newsstand prices than a subscription.)

Anyway, mildly irked... and now it's passed.

Life goes on. Besides, I have another story nearly ready to send to him.

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So if something's broken--you fix it. If it ain't broke, why fix it?

Answer: because you're bored--or at least that's what it seems that the management upstairs thinks. They're planning major office changes in my department, and I'm not entirely confident in their 'wisdom'. I suppose that makes me a typical office worker/diva in that I have little respect or confidence in the intelligence of those running the show.

huh... it's much how I feel about the curren (mis)Administraiton. Go figure.

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Okay, back to work. I'm glad I had a chance today to check in. More to come over the next few days.

Cheers!