Blast.

Blast. Got my copy into the editor too late for certain on CARDINAL RULE, and debateably on-time for THUNDERBIRD FALLS. *sigh* Well, that’ll teach me to be more diligent in the future. I made salmon chowder last night and it was .extremely. good, but I burned my tongue on it. Ow, ow ow ow. And that’s really about it for today so far. Oh! Except my sister now has a blog! :)

stats, 8/28

Target points: 22 Points used: 24.5 Activity points swapped: 2.5 WPA used/remaining: 0/6 So my downfall Saturday night was sitting down to watch Ever After and eating a very, very large bowl of popcorn and drinking some pineapple juice. I wasn’t hungry, so it was sheer raving stupidity on my part, but it did taste good. Yesterday was better.

housecleaning & stuff

I didn’t get a great deal done today, but I *did* finally get my comments (or more accurately, rewrites) on cover copy for THUNDERBIRD FALLS and THE CARDINAL RULE off to my editor. Hopefully they’ll be timely enough to be of some use still, though I was woefully late in responding to emails. I also got my 200+ inbox down to 70 or so messages, and must perform the same triage on my cemurphy account soon. But not tomorrow. Tomorrow I’m housecleaning, because I really know how to have a…

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New Orleans

You know, I’ve never been to New Orleans. It’s looking hideously like I’m never going to get the chance, at least not to see the old city; the part that makes it Nawlins. I don’t even think I know anybody who lives there, but everyone I know is talking about it. I can’t help thinking about the article about New Orleans and force five hurricanes that TNH linked to last year, and how they’ll probably never have the chance to save the city now. If, somehow, the city survives, I’m…

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