A couple of my fellow Clarion compatriots (class of 00, shit, has it been five years?) are up for nomination this year for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in spec. fic. (this is a bit of a big deal in science fiction circles), Amy Sisson and my buddy Greg Beatty (who’s […]
I was watching the extended edition of Return of the King last night, and Jenn popped in and we got into a discussion about what a great job Jackson & co. did sticking to the original heart of the story while boosting the believability and interest of the female characters, and ditching some of the
Had my Saturday pilates class followed by my boxing class, neither of which I’ve been to in almost a month, due to holiday closures, and my own holiday and work travel. This morning’s aches are in (surprise) the delts, dorsal muscles, and triceps. Because I’m jogging with something like regularity now, the jump roping was
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Had a dream last night that I went to New York and tracked down the lit. agent who’s got my 50 pages. I was given a letter saying how great she thought it was, and oh-so-sorry to take so long, and a request for the entire manuscript. I then shared a taxi back to my
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Bear with me, everybody. It’s gonna be a long 6 months. The thing I always forget about this job is that the reason we can all sit around and screw off for 6 months is because for the other 6 months, we’re working 24/7. Blaine’s a frickin’ sweetheart, and he must have talked me up
Quotes of the day: Reddy, the construction lead, on our participation in the NYC project: “When I got hired here, I told them there were two places I never wanted to be assigned to: Iraq, and New York City.” From Yellow, when he heard that I’d be heading up document controls for his new project
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It should be illegal to get up before 5am. Not sure how long they’ll keep me locked up today, but my hotel has wireless. See you all tonight. Go drink some coffee for me. I transferred all my writing files to my company laptop. Ha ha
My whole body hurts. I tried on my suit jacket in preparation for the Denver trip. I haven’t touched it in months. When I pulled it on, I was surprised to find that it seemed to have a tighter fit than I remembered, which was physically impossible, I thought, because I’ve dropped two sizes in