wretched!

Augh! Wretched! I just got this letter from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers: Should your enjoyment of the conference up until the awards banquet on Saturday night be threatened by the tension of not knowing whether or not your entry won, you hve the option of learning in advance if [the editor] chose your entry as the winner. After Monday, September 9th, you may call or email me; I will first swear you to secrecy, then tell you whether or not your entry was chosen as the winner. Augh! Wretched!…

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hooray!

Hooray! Ted has sold Emily’s car! Hooray!

So we went…

So we went to the state fair yesterday, and overall, thought it was pretty disappointing. I’d been hoping to find some good pottery on sale, but there were only two pottery booths at all, and the one that had stuff I rather liked wasn’t having a sale, so no luck there. I did, however, get to have a roasted ear of corn. Yum. And it was an amazingly gorgeous day. I got a little bit of a sunburn and a bunch of new freckles. :) The whole thing — about…

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go neil!

Go Neil! Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2002, for American Gods! Go Neil!

long day

Tsss. Long day, plenty of ow in the back after, well doing too much. And now writing blog entries while watching Andromeda and Tyr in the nipple shirt. Could be worse. But ow. Rest of the day will involve a lot of lying around. :P We, uh. Went and paid the car payment, then went to Sears where I told them to remove the astigmatism correction from my new glasses. This caused them to take the glasses away, check them, come back, tell me that there was nothing wrong with…

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