negotiator stuff!

I got an envelope in the mail today with HEART OF STONE and HOUSE OF CARDS cover flats, and wow do the covers look gorgeous next to one another. They’ve cut some of the text from the back of HoS to make room for a small version of the HoC cover, beside which is a blurb saying the next two books are out in 2008. To my pleasure, the font they’ve used in the blurb emphasizes the fact that all the titles are 5 2 5 in word length, so…

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career meme

Coming late to the game, but snurched from all over the flist: 1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/ 2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark. 3. Take their “Career Matchmaker” questions. 4. Post the results. Top italicized ones are careers I’ve considered out of my top 10 possibilities: 1. Anthropologist 2. Costume Designer 3. Historian 4. Fruit and Vegetable Grower 5. Zookeeper 6. Special Effects Technician 7. Desktop Publisher 8. Animator 9. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator 10. Computer Trainer …and the ones I’ve actually done professionally: 11. Actor 25. Dancer 31. Graphic…

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we’re alive!

More pictures will ensue Monday afternoon, but for the moment, a quick shot of Kevin and a curious llama at Fota Island Wildlife Park: :) (Delighted, there’s another one LJ doesn’t have.) (Yes, we made llama faces. We made Curious Llama faces at this one, and Grumpy Llama faces at the one who was standing guard while Curious Llama snuffled Kevin.) (If you want a feed of the Good Stuff when I post photographs, you can friend .) (Parenthetically yours,) (Kit) miles to Minas Tirith: 295

quick update

and spouse arrived safely. We have had a very pleasant evening chatting, eating stir fry, listening to the cats knock headboards over, and other sorts of things you expect from a first night of visiting. Tomorrow we’re off to Cashel on a day trip, which may or may not be followed by an evening of bbq ribs, corn on the cob, and potato salad. Depends on when we get back. Okay. Bed now!