The other day while I was out working, I saw a Chinese family with an extremely, extremely cute 7 month old boy. His daddy was wearing a flat cap, and the baby was wearing a matching flat cap, and he was SO ADORABLE he made me want to go home and hug my own baby. I related this to Ted, who said, “Was he as cute as Young Indiana?” I said I thought he had been. “He was probably a Lee, too,” Ted said smugly. :) Then later, possibly that…
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lost week
I lose weeks frequently. Typically it comes in the form of being absolutely certain I have another week in the month. This month, however, I’ve been absolutely certain that next Monday is the last day, and I’ve been really sort of freaked out trying to figure out how I was going to get copy edits, a short story, and another 15K done on my book by Monday. Well, the answer was obviously that I *wasn’t*, but anyway, freaking out. So when I realized last night that in fact there is…
Connery Beagle
…so author Doranna Dugin keeps an LJ for her beagle Connery. I heartily dislike journals (and books, for that matter) from animals’ points of view, except for some reason Doranna does a *spectacularly* good job with and I have come to love him through the posts there. She’s posted a sort of summary of his life here, but it’s just that, and doesn’t come anywhere near expressing the joie de vivre that the LJ and Twitter feeds offer. Connery has always been a bit fragile health-wise, and as so often…
for heaven’s sake
Well. That book giveaway post certainly brought out the lurkers. Between mizkit.com, LJ, Twitter and FB, I got something on the order of 200 responses. That makes the dozen books I was going to give away seem sort of paltry. So I’m going to up it a little in proportion to the number of responders on each venue, for a total of 18–3 for mizkit.com, 6 for LJ, 6 for FB and 3 for Twitter. The mizkit.com winners are: Becca, Jennifer, and Linda Henderson! The LJ winners are: technocowboy, skeagsidhe,…
BOOKS!
I am very funny. :) This morning the doorbell rang as I pulled Young Indiana’s diaper off to expose a POOPY BUTT. I went ACK and leapt up to rush to the door because the only reason the doorbell rings at this hour is if there’s a mail delivery! I whipped the door open and said “quick! quick! i’m changing the baby’s diaper!” the poor man apologized and started laughing and handed me the form to sign for BOXES OF BOOKS! Young Indiana came to see what was going on,…