To do today.: seanan

To do today.

* Pick up Canadian currency from my bank, where hopefully, no one will say "Canadians have money?" Once was funny. Twice may well be grounds for punching somebody in the nose. I like my bank. I don't want to get thrown out for assaulting a teller.

* Revise and process the editorial notes on the next thirty pages of Feed. I'm currently on page 251 of 544 (this includes the dedication page, but does not yet include the acknowledgment page); I need to hit page 281 before I can go to bed tonight. I like sleep. Sleep is my cuddly friend. I like zombies. The fact that zombies are a prerequisite for sleep around here probably says something about my psyche.

* Attempt to unearth my dresser from beneath the epic pile of crap that accompanied me home from San Diego. This may or may not be something I can accomplish without the use of a flamethrower.

* Fish the cat toys out from under the bed.

* Attempt to integrate the epic pile of crap that accompanied me home from San Diego into my bedroom without causing some sort of avalanche or otherwise hitting critical mass and opening a black hole into another dimension. Of course, if the objects responsible for opening the black hole influence the dimension on the other side, it will be a dimension filled with flesh-eating My Little Ponies and telepathic velociraptors. So that might be a nice place to have a vacation home.

* Trade the July pages in my planner for the shiny, new, relatively unmarked September pages. Immediately start filling the September pages with to-do lists, deadlines, goals, and the other unavoidable roadmaps of being me. I actually find this process quite soothing, in a nit-picky, obsessive sort of a way. Here is my month. I have scheduled panic attacks, showers, and laundry. Go me.

* Finish chapter four of The Brightest Fell, aka "the fifth Toby book," aka "well, at least she won't be done with the entire second trilogy before the first book comes out." (The Toby books aren't really trilogies. It's just that I tend to outline them three at a time, because it's an easy number to deal with, and people are less frightened by "oh, I'm working on the second trilogy." Apparently, math and logic are not always our friends.)

* Fish the cat toys out from under the bed.

* Inform Alice that I am not going to fish the cat toys out from under the bed a third time.

* Fish the cat toys out from under the bed.

* Pull my towering stacks of trade paperbacks into one mega-stack and put the damn things away before I lose a cat beneath a pile of Hack/Slash. Since Lilly eats comic books, this would be a fitting end, but it would make me sad, and I don't have time for that right now.

* Update three entries in the Toby continuity wiki. I'm getting close to being done with the data-entry from the original continuity guide, and that means soon, I'll be able to start updating things to match current continuity, as well as adding extra information on characters whose profiles are still just skeletons. If there's ever a fan wiki, we can have a race.

* Ignore the Maine Coon telling me that her toys have disappeared under the bed.

* Go to Dairy Queen.

* Sleep.

miintikwa

July 31 2009, 17:04:31 UTC 7 years ago

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It has always amused me that the Canadian dollar is the 'looney.'

But you're right about the 'Canadians have money' comment. Um, duh?

seanan_mcguire

July 31 2009, 20:23:17 UTC 7 years ago

This was actually said to me by a woman who worked in a bank.

7 years ago

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July 31 2009, 21:57:50 UTC 7 years ago

I have Canadian money now! It is pretty.

I may have to buy a beer for Coyote just for you.

spectralbovine

July 31 2009, 17:12:28 UTC 7 years ago

Ooh, Syntax! I love "Bliss."

July 31 2009, 21:58:05 UTC 7 years ago

I think we may be listening to different obscure bands.

branna

July 31 2009, 17:14:03 UTC 7 years ago

Do the proofers get access to the continuity wiki?

July 31 2009, 17:16:48 UTC 7 years ago

Dear sweet baby Cthulhu, NO.

I already have people trying to "correct" continuity that isn't in any of the published books, and the wiki is where I tend to work things out for myself. The proofers never got the guide, either.

tikiera

azurelunatic

July 31 2009, 17:53:05 UTC 7 years ago

Fun fact: in many places in Alaska, Canadian coin in amounts less than or equal to $0.25 pass with a 1:1 exchange rate.

Speaking of velociraptors, I recently became aware that there seems to be a show that revolves around dinosaurs coming out of anomalies and trying to eat people. In case it is something that you have somehow missed: http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/primeval/

quettalinde

July 31 2009, 19:45:20 UTC 7 years ago

In BC (and probably most of Canada), America coin generally passes at a 1:1 exchange rate too.

July 31 2009, 21:58:56 UTC 7 years ago

Kate says I'm not allowed to own anything which has ever appeared on that show. This includes Connor and a lawn.

dornbeast

netpositive

July 31 2009, 18:03:48 UTC 7 years ago

Echo the recommendations above of using an ATM card (assuming you have one) to withdraw currency once you are in Canada. You get a better exchange rate than at the bank. Hey, Canada not only has money, it has ATMs too. :) Have a great time while in Montreal -- this is your last con before actual book launch, right? :)

Ignore the Maine Coon telling me that her toys have disappeared under the bed.

You cannot ignore Catzilla. You cannot even hope to contain her. And the Turtle cannot help you, either. OBEY CATZILLA.

(Lilly references make me smile because she is Siamese. Alice references make me giggle because she is big and poofy.)

July 31 2009, 22:24:25 UTC 7 years ago

Catzilla will destroy us all one day, just you watch.

This is, in fact, my last convention before the book hits shelves. But, y'know, NO PRESSURE.

wendyzski

July 31 2009, 18:27:17 UTC 7 years ago

What are you likely to get at Dairy Queen?

I retain a deep fondness for butterscotch dip cones. Mmmmm vaguely butterscotch-flavored plastic on top of not-quite-ice-cream in a sweet styrofoam container.

July 31 2009, 22:24:36 UTC 7 years ago

Vanilla cone.

I am a simple soul.

gorgeousgary

July 31 2009, 23:15:27 UTC 7 years ago

Forty-seven dollars worth of diabetic sin? ;-)

martianmooncrab

July 31 2009, 19:10:19 UTC 7 years ago

towering stacks of trade paperbacks into one mega-stack

that seems to make them breed faster and tend to crankyness if disturbed.

July 31 2009, 22:24:53 UTC 7 years ago

Yes, but it means I lose fewer back-issues down behind the bookshelves.

the_dark_fyre

July 31 2009, 20:56:05 UTC 7 years ago

We do have money despite apparent popular opinion, it just LOOKS fake.

July 31 2009, 22:25:10 UTC 7 years ago

I'm a fan of Canadian money. It's pretty.

July 31 2009, 22:48:53 UTC 7 years ago

The United States of America has what may be the ugliest currency on the planet. As far as I'm concerned, no American has any right to criticize any other country's money until we figure out how to put a little more color on our bills.

janeg

July 31 2009, 21:39:12 UTC 7 years ago

A friend of mine tried to stop fishing the cat toys from under the bed. The cats tore a hole in the mattress and stored toys there. My friend could no longer find any toys and bought more, and more, and more. When she replaced the mattress and the delivery men lifted the mattress, dozens and dozens of fur mice fell out - try explaining that one to a non-cat person!

I have way too much stuff. But my cats have more toys than I do.

July 31 2009, 22:25:31 UTC 7 years ago

Alice has more toys than I care to think about.

Lilly has Alice. And me.

filkferengi

silvertwi

July 31 2009, 22:11:22 UTC 7 years ago

You seem to have skipped over August in your shiny calendar. =)

Aah, cat toys. My kitten tears all ours up. I hope it doesn't hurt to fish them out from under the bed.

July 31 2009, 22:26:06 UTC 7 years ago

Nope. My planner holds two months at a time. So August is already traveling around with me; I'll just be trading July (past) for September (future) as August becomes the current month.

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