hot. sweaty. dying. MEOW.

Hot. Sweaty. Dying. MEOW! Hello from the hostel in NYC. It’s pretty decent. Bright colors and clean rooms and my god it’s hot. Laura and Ben are safely married in what was a terrific wedding ceremony. I’ll write more about it later when I’m not paying $2 for 20 minutes of net access. Their friend Barry drove us into NYC this afternoon and walked us around some so we could get a feel for the place (THANK YOU, BARRY!). It’s a little much for Ted, who doesn’t like going into…

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we’re off.

Ok. We’re off, in about an hour. We’ll be gone from tomorrow, the 11th, through the 17th, next Wednesday. We’ll presumably be entirely without email the next three days, but Sunday through Tuesday we’ll be in NYC and one imagines we can find access to the net there somewhere, so if you simply can’t stand being without me another moment, you can always send email. In the meantime… there is no meantime. Man, I’m tired.

*Dead* tired.

The manuscript, bless its black little heart, is off to the agent. In a fit of … something. Efficiency? Editor/agent-inspired panic? I rewrote the section of the book I thought was weak, and now I’m very *very* pleased with the results and extremely happy with the novel overall. Not that I wasn’t happy with it before, but I’m much *happier* now. *beam* Let’s hear it for rewrites jacking up the wordcount: ytd wordcount: 197,000 I would go die of exhaustion now if I didn’t have a billion trillion million things…

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being game

Following through for , but as she said, don’t feel obliged: Sum up your opinion or impression of me in one word, leave it as a comment on this posting, and then post this in to your journal.

man.

Man. Sunday I worked all morning and then at 2pm Ted and I decided to drive down to Kenai, where we went and tromped around in the woods behind my old house to see if we (I) could find Leader Green, our old fort. I did, in fact, find it, although somewhat worse for the wear. I took a few pictures, but not many, because as I told Ted, you can’t take pictures of memories. We also went to Paradisos and Dairy Queen, since we were down there, but we…

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