Today is June 1st. According to my big list of holidays, it's Dare Day. Fitting, I suppose. It's also three months, exactly, to the release of Rosemary and Rue, which means it's probably two months to the actual physical production of Rosemary and Rue, and time to start the giant "When will Seanan have her first nervous collapse of the year?" betting pool. (Much as I'm complaining about convention season, it's actually a very, very good thing. Convention season keeps me focused. True, what I'm focused on is primarily "get in and out of the next convention alive and without being brought up on murder charges," but any focus is better than no focus. I flail a lot when I have no focus. I flail a lot regardless of focus; it's just that focused flailing is less destructive and more amusing for the people around me.)
I keep looking at the numbers on my "countdown to book release" and thinking "that can't be right..."
In case you were curious, the date on the short story that marks the first-ever appearance, in any form, of October Daye, is...Friday, June 27th, 1997. So if I seem a little flipped-out about Rosemary and Rue coming out, just remember that from where I'm sitting, it's been a long, long journey. A long, long journey that is, in a very real way, just getting started.
1) Molding it (it's likely pressed into shape and cut) - likely big machinery, though it could be done by hand...except for.... 2) Most of the corn I've seen is lightly panned with caranuba wax and sugar to set that nice light shell and that IS big machinery.
The rest is sugar, water and a wee bit of corn syrup. Flavoring could get particularly fiddly, and even stray into BPAL-like taste testing, but what a way to go. ^^
When I win the lottery and buy that twenty-room manse in the country.
Hmm, I dared to leave work at 2pm today, because the A/C was fritzed and the temperature was already up to 32C (90F) in the office (at my desk) and the sun had only just started attacking the big glass windows next to which I sit. Even the Indian girl who sits opposite me was complaining that it was too hot, and she's been cold ever since she arrived here last November!
(As an aside: whoever it was put a multi-yottawatt fusion reactor within 500 lightseconds of an inhabited planet was being careless and should be hauled up under health and safety charges. Just sayin'...)
3 months? That's, like, a quarter of a year I have to wait! (And when it gets there I'll be like "how come it's September already?" Time is a funny thing; lunchtime doubly so...)
...a multi-yottawatt fusion reactor within 500 lightseconds of an inhabited planet...
You've got it backwards. It's more like, "Why did you try evolving life within five hundred light-seconds of this fusion reactor?" I think the laws that cover building a home in a flood plain cover it. If I remember correctly, the summary is, "You knew the risks when you set up here. Deal with it."
stunned
June 1 2009, 18:51:55 UTC 8 years ago
I'll take the forty-second of Octember!
June 2 2009, 14:36:15 UTC 8 years ago
June 1 2009, 19:05:08 UTC 8 years ago
If this is Dare Day, can it be mutual? (As in if I dare you, will you dare me?)
June 2 2009, 14:36:29 UTC 8 years ago
June 2 2009, 16:05:28 UTC 8 years ago
1) Molding it (it's likely pressed into shape and cut) - likely big machinery, though it could be done by hand...except for....
2) Most of the corn I've seen is lightly panned with caranuba wax and sugar to set that nice light shell and that IS big machinery.
The rest is sugar, water and a wee bit of corn syrup. Flavoring could get particularly fiddly, and even stray into BPAL-like taste testing, but what a way to go. ^^
When I win the lottery and buy that twenty-room manse in the country.
June 1 2009, 19:06:10 UTC 8 years ago
(As an aside: whoever it was put a multi-yottawatt fusion reactor within 500 lightseconds of an inhabited planet was being careless and should be hauled up under health and safety charges. Just sayin'...)
3 months? That's, like, a quarter of a year I have to wait! (And when it gets there I'll be like "how come it's September already?" Time is a funny thing; lunchtime doubly so...)
June 1 2009, 19:50:00 UTC 8 years ago
You've got it backwards. It's more like, "Why did you try evolving life within five hundred light-seconds of this fusion reactor?" I think the laws that cover building a home in a flood plain cover it. If I remember correctly, the summary is, "You knew the risks when you set up here. Deal with it."
June 2 2009, 14:37:19 UTC 8 years ago
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June 1 2009, 19:45:28 UTC 8 years ago
Oh, and her name is Rosemary.
June 2 2009, 14:37:29 UTC 8 years ago
June 2 2009, 06:14:19 UTC 8 years ago
Have you considered doing a reading of like the prologue/first chapter of the book and putting it up for all and sundry?
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