Fireplace: 1; Cats: 0

We got a cat toy a couple of weeks ago, and we’ve been keeping it above the hearth, because there’s nowhere else to really keep it. The cats *know* where the toy is, and the grate covering the fireplace keeps being knocked over because they’re trying to get to the toy. This morning Zilli is a very, very dirty grey cat who has obviously been rolling around in the fireplace. I think we need to find a new place to keep the cat toy. :) Man. I did not get…

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a quick note

Been a nice day. Dad’s older sister is visiting, so Ted made us a luffly standing rib roast dinner (followed by a murderously good chocolate cake that he also made) last night, and we sat around talking until quite late, and today we went and looked at Cobh and then at Cork. :) Ted’s now off watching 300, and I’m going to do something not-computer-related as soon as I’m done posting this. Mostly I’m posting because last year I was asked to consider doing a cover quote for Lisa Shearin‘s…

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revision letters. pah.

There’s nothing like a revision letter to make you feel like you can’t write. Yes, yes, I know I rather demonstratively *can* write, and I don’t need any reassurances on the subject, it’s just that revision letters always make me feel like I might as well just fling the book into a pit and myself after it, since obviously I’m incapable of communicating what I was trying and the story is a failure and so on and so forth, even when the revisions are really fairly minor, dealing almost exclusively…

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