It is 2:30 in the morning. Three hours ago, we began standing in line to buy Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which we had no intention of reading tonight, so, as the man behind us said, “We could’ve done this at five after nine in the morning without any queue at all.” This is what the line looked like at 11:30pm: It kept going way, way way around the block. There were easily a thousand people, and very likely twice that. They cheered when the fire engine drove by,…
happy geek
It really is so very, very easy to make me happy. I noticed a mailing tube in the pile of stuff in my office this morning, and thought, “Huh, wonder what that is,” so I opened it up. Before I’d actually gotten it open, I’d remembered what it was: the X3 Rogue poster that the utterly awesome had sent me last year. (If I’d remembered I had that, I wouldn’t have bid on the GINORMOUS BUS STOP POSTER of the same image, which may even now be winging its way…
cats & work
Zilli is sitting bolt upright in my lap, ‘helping’ me eat breakfast, which is to say, every time I try to take a bite of cereal (the bowl held precariously in my hand above his head) he sits up even straighter and knocks the bowl with his head in an attempt to create a spill from which he will get All The Milk. Wretched, but funny, kitty. :) Yesterday’s writing tally: turned out I’d only gotten through chapter 4 while Emily was here, so I still had to do 5.…
too many thinks
thinks i need to do over the next while, cut because otherwise i might depress myself: – finish tqb revisions – call sherrie fitz – call real estate agent about –> beds –> cooker –> garden –> extraneous un-needed furniture – organize office (after finding out about extraneous furniture) – issue 4 chance page 1 – write issue 5 chance – RE-SUBMIT CHANCE, FOR GOD’S SAKE – eat fred’s brain re: electriCity – email the Minx lady – write HoF – mail Deen’s postcards – mail Ted’s Mom’s stuff –…
photos!
Here we have many photos. They include gratuitous kitty pictures, Elton John concert photos, Mira Furlan, Dublin, and my office. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine which are which. The guitarist, who was Cool: Sir Elton signing things before the encore: Mira Furlan (Delenn) at the Forbidden Planet in Dublin. She was there for a signing, and because was in town, it was inevitable that we ended up going to see her. She’s a very nice woman indeed. We chatted for a few minutes, in…