Last week I had to go down to Dublin, and a friend brought me out to lunch to celebrate having signed with an agent. We went to Bar Italia, which is fantastic btw, and when the waitstaff arrived to ask if we’d like to look at a dessert menu, my friend said, “Yes! We’re CELEBRATING!” They asked what we were celebrating, and I explained I was a writer and I had just signed an agent after looking for one for a very long time. They gave me, and then my…
I have very *very* silly friends. I posted on Twitter that I’d read two books over the weekend. Carl said, “Isn’t *writing* two books over the weekend more your usual thing?” I claimed I’d never written *two* books over a weekend. I checked Twitter this morning to find the following: @BryantD Did you hear? @ce_murphy just finished two manuscripts in one weekend, while making oreos and stringing beads? @othergretchen Did you hear? @ce_murphy just finished twelve manuscripts on one weekend, while stringing Oreos like beads? @carlrigney I heard @ce_murphy was…
Oh I woke up this morning (da da da DA da) at six forty-five (da da da DA da) Oh yeah I woke up this mooo-ooorning and I was feelin’ alive So I got out of bed (da da da DA da) and I went to the pool (da da da DA da) yeah I got out of beeee–eeee-d just like some crazy fool I walked by the river (da da da DA da) in the morning sunshine (da da da DA da) Yeah I walked by the riiiii-iiii-ver and…
During today’s wars, I became a verb: SharonM: LOL, Cating. Hear no evil, see no evil, yada yada SharonM: Catie — not Cating meerkat: I like ‘Cating.” She is not a Noun, she is a Verb! mizkit: I’ll cate you if you’re not careful! :) SharonM: I know Catie. She COULD be a verb. :D meerkat: Sharon –exactly SharonM: See? :D mizkit: I must be a verb that means “inclined to workaholism” meerkat: “always in motion, the Cating is.” NewGuyDave: I need to be more cating mizkit: lol mizkit: i…
Rumor up here in Longford has it that down in Cork, /Kate’s water has broken, and my husband has rushed to her assistance.