I don’t seem to have started writing yet this morning. Instead I’m reading LJ, answering comments, all that sort of thing that doesn’t really look much like working. But here, I’ll pretend I am now working by posting something book-related! The cover for THUNDERBIRD FALLS, due out in May 2006: Click through for the full cover, although I’m not positive that’s the current back cover copy, because I haven’t actually scanned this in (can’t! My scanner’s in transit!) And the final cover has a shimmering feather falling, the same kind…
dwarven bakers
This morning I went to read my flist, and came across Ursula’s latest sketch. What Ursula could not possibly know is that about a year ago, I logged onto a MUSH and Deborah said, without the slightest warning, “Kit, you are a dwarven baker who is about to be accosted by an elf on the Atkins diet. Go,” and we played out this scene with an increasingly grumpy dwarven baker and a terribly hungry elf who couldn’t go next door to the restaurant because it was owned by the guy…
adventures in cooking
I’ve had Adventures in Cooking tonight. I wanted a bowl of soup for dinner, but was thwarted by being unable to figure out how to turn the stove on. I was further thwarted from my secondary plan of going down to one of the corner cafes and having soup there by sheer laziness. So after a while I was whining online and my friend Geni, who is English, told me how to turn the stove on. (There’s a completely unmarked button that has to be pushed after you turn the…
many small things
I trundled down to the coffee shop this morning and got about 1650 words written, which is a nice start. I’m hoping to do some more tonight, which seems likely, since I’m the only one home; Mom and Dad have gone out to Blackrock to babysit. I also completely failed to understand the nice young woman behind the counter, who asked me something unintelligible three times, and eventually said, “Just water?” which I hastily agreed to. On the way up the stairs to sit down and have my water and…
another busy day
Another busy day! I don’t seem to be in any particular hurry to get up these days, so I got up around 8:20, but we weren’t in any hurry to get out of Dublin, either, so it was all okay. We toddled off to Newbridge in the early afternoon, and I liked it a lot. The commute’s not at all bad, 20 minutes on the quickest train and 35 on the slowest, with the light rail bringing you from Heuston station to Connelly, which is downtown, in another 15 or…