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tanaiseI am catching up on M'ris's journal, one of my few regulars that I didn't stay up to date with while in DC. (I am back from DC, by the way, and a real keyboard hurts less than the laptop, aren't you all so lucky.) I considered reading her journal entries while I was in DC, but decided against it because this way I get to read a whole stack of them together, and resist the urge to email and point out that while seals may not eat gingerbread (and I had excellent gingerbread in DC, from Marvelous Market, twice, so everyone should envy me), they do eat tuna, albeit not with mayo and garlic powder on toasted whole wheat (which is about the only way *I* eat tuna, except for the *really* fancy albacore filet cans that we got when it was super cheap, those I eat right out of the can after I drain them and give the cats the water).
I also don't have to mention that the picture on the wall here is by Tony Sansevero, who does art work for Bruce Coville novels.
In addition to not mentioning things, I also recommend the Nov 8 entry to Heather, if only for the post on content vs happy, which I agree with totally at the moment, and expect she will as well. I am happy living at home, I really am. I am not at all content, and that's where the fretting and breakdowns come from. I am somewhat content in DC, but I am not at all happy, and it makes like harder than the opposite.
(finshed november, now back to October.)
To truly freak myself out, I must mention that among the other authors I chattered away with at the signing at WFC were Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevemer (who is![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
1crowdedhour complete with chocolate pot). I loff them. They're why I write, I think maybe. Because my best friend shelle and I read Sorcery and Cecelia, and loved it, and wrote our own *very* bad novel together. I'm hoping that one had enough first novelness to take care of me for a while. But while I got to talk to both of them, and tell Caroline that I'd liked When the King Comes Back, I'd gone and forgotten my very tattered copy of S&C at home, so I couldn't get it signed. Because while I'm largely against signings because then I have a book I can't get rid of if I want to because someone went and wrote my name in it, I do like having my very favorite books signed by my very favorite authors (thus the sadness that I didn't have the lovely copy of Last Call at Clarion, and had to make do with the less fun one). But I didn't have that one, though I did have a copy of Magician's Ward, which I like a lot, but not so much as Mairelon the Magician, which is why I didn't bother taking it to be signed. And for them what care, The Grand Tour, the sequel to S&C is turned in, Patricia said, and I've heard the first 3 or 4 letters from it already, so hah! *gloats.* I also recommend, for any that haven't read them yet, all of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, really in pretty much any order. I read them in one order, which wasn't right, but they're excellent, and I will sometime soonish need to buy all of them in one fell swoop so I have them all, and preferably matching. I wonder if it says something about what books I require to match (YA novels I collect) and which I just let accumulate in whatever form I get them in. Though I suppose the Kate Elliott series I keep meaning to finish, but probably won't until after she finishes it (and let's hope she does finish this one, because Jaran never really was, and I miss it muchly. I should go find the first/standalone up in the attic soon.), and some other scattered ones are also all matching. Angus Well's first series, for example.
Oh, and hannah, in case you missed it, or got it out of your head or anything silly like that: "Which, when you think about it, really beats out Gollum singing "I Will Always Love You." Especially because it's hard to know where to put all the "precious"es in that song and, I'm happy to say, I don't know any of the verses. ", and that pretty much concludes our reading for the night.
And my toes are nearly ice, and my heels and ankles are, and while I fidgeted around with the words in Company Man, I'm not sure where it's going. And tomorrow I need to write letters to Wickstrom and Leslie about recommendations, and keep thinking about that third person. I wanted someone who could talk about the writer-type professionalism I have, but I don't think anyone pays attention to me like that, not enough to write a recommendation about it. *frets* So remind me to write the letters tomorrow, please! And I need to check what my essays will have to be, and I need to work on either them or Company Man (hey, if I get it done in time, maybe it can be my essay. ;)
Oh, and mama cat seems to abruptly have lost about 5 pounds since I went to DC, which is very weird, and she's limping a little, but she doesn't seem to have lumps that don't belong, and she actually no longer looks like she swallowed a soccer ball (the problems with a black and white cat). So that combined with the new cat foods my mom is trying (senior cat foods, with some cat-equivalents of fit and trim), and the fact that Mister Fuzzybritches himself (not to be confused with Master Fuzzybritches, who is still on Kitten chow) is less, what's the word...hmm. the word is avoirdupois, but I don't remember how to use it properly, as I don't know what form of speech it is, since in French it's an infinitive phrase. That's what comes of too much education--you can't remember how to use it Anyways, Orca apparently is less tubby around the middle, so maybe it's just the food working okay. I still plan to keep an eye on her, just incase. and now to bed.
kisses, all.
I also don't have to mention that the picture on the wall here is by Tony Sansevero, who does art work for Bruce Coville novels.
In addition to not mentioning things, I also recommend the Nov 8 entry to Heather, if only for the post on content vs happy, which I agree with totally at the moment, and expect she will as well. I am happy living at home, I really am. I am not at all content, and that's where the fretting and breakdowns come from. I am somewhat content in DC, but I am not at all happy, and it makes like harder than the opposite.
(finshed november, now back to October.)
To truly freak myself out, I must mention that among the other authors I chattered away with at the signing at WFC were Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevemer (who is
1crowdedhour complete with chocolate pot). I loff them. They're why I write, I think maybe. Because my best friend shelle and I read Sorcery and Cecelia, and loved it, and wrote our own *very* bad novel together. I'm hoping that one had enough first novelness to take care of me for a while. But while I got to talk to both of them, and tell Caroline that I'd liked When the King Comes Back, I'd gone and forgotten my very tattered copy of S&C at home, so I couldn't get it signed. Because while I'm largely against signings because then I have a book I can't get rid of if I want to because someone went and wrote my name in it, I do like having my very favorite books signed by my very favorite authors (thus the sadness that I didn't have the lovely copy of Last Call at Clarion, and had to make do with the less fun one). But I didn't have that one, though I did have a copy of Magician's Ward, which I like a lot, but not so much as Mairelon the Magician, which is why I didn't bother taking it to be signed. And for them what care, The Grand Tour, the sequel to S&C is turned in, Patricia said, and I've heard the first 3 or 4 letters from it already, so hah! *gloats.* I also recommend, for any that haven't read them yet, all of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, really in pretty much any order. I read them in one order, which wasn't right, but they're excellent, and I will sometime soonish need to buy all of them in one fell swoop so I have them all, and preferably matching. I wonder if it says something about what books I require to match (YA novels I collect) and which I just let accumulate in whatever form I get them in. Though I suppose the Kate Elliott series I keep meaning to finish, but probably won't until after she finishes it (and let's hope she does finish this one, because Jaran never really was, and I miss it muchly. I should go find the first/standalone up in the attic soon.), and some other scattered ones are also all matching. Angus Well's first series, for example. Oh, and hannah, in case you missed it, or got it out of your head or anything silly like that: "Which, when you think about it, really beats out Gollum singing "I Will Always Love You." Especially because it's hard to know where to put all the "precious"es in that song and, I'm happy to say, I don't know any of the verses. ", and that pretty much concludes our reading for the night.
And my toes are nearly ice, and my heels and ankles are, and while I fidgeted around with the words in Company Man, I'm not sure where it's going. And tomorrow I need to write letters to Wickstrom and Leslie about recommendations, and keep thinking about that third person. I wanted someone who could talk about the writer-type professionalism I have, but I don't think anyone pays attention to me like that, not enough to write a recommendation about it. *frets* So remind me to write the letters tomorrow, please! And I need to check what my essays will have to be, and I need to work on either them or Company Man (hey, if I get it done in time, maybe it can be my essay. ;)
Oh, and mama cat seems to abruptly have lost about 5 pounds since I went to DC, which is very weird, and she's limping a little, but she doesn't seem to have lumps that don't belong, and she actually no longer looks like she swallowed a soccer ball (the problems with a black and white cat). So that combined with the new cat foods my mom is trying (senior cat foods, with some cat-equivalents of fit and trim), and the fact that Mister Fuzzybritches himself (not to be confused with Master Fuzzybritches, who is still on Kitten chow) is less, what's the word...hmm. the word is avoirdupois, but I don't remember how to use it properly, as I don't know what form of speech it is, since in French it's an infinitive phrase. That's what comes of too much education--you can't remember how to use it Anyways, Orca apparently is less tubby around the middle, so maybe it's just the food working okay. I still plan to keep an eye on her, just incase. and now to bed.
kisses, all.
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Date: 2003-11-10 03:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-10 06:58 am (UTC)2) Especially when posting it in a journal I read kind of counts anyway?
3) I have tuna now and will be making the bread kind of gingerbread sometime today. With a recipe that calls for a bottle of Guinness. Wish me luck. There is always the cookie kind to fall back on if this proves unsatisfactory, and my Swedish cookies never, ever fail me.
4) After looking at Tempy's pics, I think we should start a Whitest People In Fandom Society (whose dues would fund replacement lenses for those whose cameras we have broken with our shining whiteness). You and me and Will Shetterly for sure. Other nominations welcome.
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Date: 2003-11-10 10:12 am (UTC)Mostly concern that you will think I'm a freak, though I'm probably way past that point already, and should probably give it all up and join a convent.
2) Especially when posting it in a journal I read kind of counts anyway?
Because this way other people can see what a freak I am also. :) And this way it feels more like commenting than emailing. (told you I'm a freak
3) I have tuna now and will be making the bread kind of gingerbread sometime today. With a recipe that calls for a bottle of Guinness. Wish me luck. There is always the cookie kind to fall back on if this proves unsatisfactory, and my Swedish cookies never, ever fail me.
I always love the bread kind. Cookies aren't ever quite as satisfying as I want them to be, so I figure why not just have molasses cookies, which I like better anyways.
4) After looking at Tempy's pics, I think we should start a Whitest People In Fandom Society (whose dues would fund replacement lenses for those whose cameras we have broken with our shining whiteness). You and me and Will Shetterly for sure. Other nominations welcome.
That picture is even more impressively white than it should be, considering that it's my face, and not skin that doesn't get covered at all times. I read regency romances where the girls don't ever go out in the sun, and I think in that case I'd be so pale I'd glow even under normal lighting.
I have a lovely picture of myself getting ready to go to prom, and the colors in it are so rich and lovely--a surf-green wall, a red scarf, my hair, and my black dress, that I didn't realise for almost a year that the whiteness of expanse of chest that was on display had effectively washed all details out. I'd thought I was showing off too much chest, but of course looking down always looks scary as it is. I had a picture taken the next year, which didn't wash out, and I was like, "good lord, no wonder people were starting--they were waiting for me to fall out."
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Date: 2003-11-10 02:05 pm (UTC)She quotes me as singing my Gollum songs...and worries that I will think she's a freak. Riiiiight. Okay then.
I figure why not just have molasses cookies....
Don't your gingerbread cookies have molasses in them?
I have a lovely picture of myself getting ready to go to prom...and I was like, "good lord, no wonder people were starting--they were waiting for me to fall out."
Funny: I have a very similar picture. Only I knew how boobular my dress was. Black and white and boobs all over. Like a tabloid! How is Mrissa's high school homecoming picture like a tabloid?