Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: cranky
  • Music: Glee, "Bust A Move."

I'm a professional, I swear,

I am a professional. I am aware of what is and is not appropriate conversation for polite company (although I sometimes forget when the topics of "pandemic disease" or "zombies" come up; sadly, I can be goaded into gleeful explanations of latency and droplet-based transmission just about anywhere, including the dinner table). I wear real grown-up shoes when I have to take business meetings, and I have a calm, measured telephone voice.

All this being said, there's a reason I don't usually take phone calls in my house.

The Agent called to discuss my upcoming trip to New York, during which we're going to be doing several dinner-type things, some meeting-type things, and a lot of hanging out. During our forty-minute or so discussion, she was treated to...

"Ow! Ow ow OW! Goddammit, Alice, get your claws out of my fucking leg!"
"No. No, you can't have that. No, that isn't yours. No."
"Get off of there! Jesus, cat, I swear, I will skin you."
"I can get new cats, you know. Better cats. Smaller cats. Cats that don't do that."
"Alice, give back my bra."
"I'm serious, Alice. Give me back my damn bra."
"THAT'S MY FUCKING BRA, CAT!"
"Okay, I give up. Just do whatever the fuck you want."

...all while we were having a serious business discussion. I swear, the fact that she hasn't drowned me and put me out of her misery is something of a miracle.
Tags: alice, cats, cranky blonde is cranky, personal superhero
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keristor

November 5 2009, 08:47:00 UTC 7 years ago

LOL!

Anyone who phones someone at home on business (unless it is during business hours and the person is officially working from home in their own locked study) can expect that sort of thing. Cats, children, spouses (spice?), parents, neighbours, things on the stove, other random distractions (the thing I'm trying to extract from a pile causing the rest of the pile to collapse). I suspect she's used to it with writers.

(I would like to meet your agent, though, she sounds wonderful...)

jacylrin

November 5 2009, 13:45:06 UTC 7 years ago

Yes, many people have taken the plural of "spouse" to be "spice." This tends to come up in the polyamory community ;-)

mariadkins

November 5 2009, 14:48:31 UTC 7 years ago

I love that!! :)

keristor

November 5 2009, 16:51:31 UTC 7 years ago

Probably where I came across it. Unless Heinlein used it first (that I saw, I think I first came across polyamory as opposed to polygamy in The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress).

(I consider myself poly, zero is a plural number: more than one partners, one partner, zero partners.)

jacylrin

November 5 2009, 17:03:48 UTC 7 years ago

I consider polyamorous more of an orientation for some. I could be in a monogamous relationship and still have a polyamorous orientation, just like I can be bisexual as an orientation even when I'm not involved with any females at the time. Yes, I first read about polyamorous situations in Heinlein (but I think it was The Number of the Beast), though I don't think I actually ran across the term until much later (after I was already in a poly relationship *chuckle*).

seanan_mcguire

November 6 2009, 18:38:36 UTC 7 years ago

She really is. I adore her beyond all reason, and hope to someday be the sort of crazy-popular where I get book tours and she gets to come.