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.
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...)
stunned
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 2 2009, 14:36:47 UTC 8 years ago