The Return of the Traveling Circus and Snake-Handling Show.
The Traveling Circus and Snake-Handling Show will be coming together again on October 1st, to blow the roof right off of Borderlands Books! It's going to be a party. This time, the lineup includes Vixy and Tony, Betsy Tinney, Katie Tinney, Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff, Paul Kwinn, and the always-awesome Beckett Gladney. Mia Nutick will be on hand, with pendants. Kate Secor will be on hand, with sticks. Come for the music, cupcakes, readings, raffles, and fun; stay to buy books and make the bookstore like me. Hooray, Circus!
Ashes of Honor.
The sixth Toby book is trekking right along, and is currently on-schedule to have a finished first draft by October 26th. I even have a progressive daily word count goal sheet to prove it. Once the book is done, it goes off to the Machete Squad and The Agent for review and severe physical harm, and I can really buckle down on Midnight Blue-Light Special, a few YA projects, and the next Mira Grant book. This is what we call "Seanan rewards herself for working by creating more work." This is also what we call "Seanan has no social life."
Social life.
Except that I do have a social life, honest! I'm flying to Seattle this weekend for a Counting Crows concert (yes I am flying to another state just for a concert DON'T JUDGE ME I LOVE THEM). The Pirates of Emerson are getting ready to re-open their annual haunted house park, and I'm very excited about that. And I'm already making sure to plan dinners and lunches with the friends I'm going to see during...
My fall convention schedule.
The first full weekend of October (7th-9th), I will be the Literary Guest of Honor at Conclave, in Romulus, Michigan. The weekend after, I will be appearing at the LitCrawl!, this time in the Borderlands Cafe. The weekend after that, I will be flying to Ohio for OVFF, where I will sing in the Pegasus Concert, share a room with Brooke, hug Vixy a lot, and wear a pretty dress.
And after that, I nap.
Too much TV.
All my fall shows are coming back on the air. Right now, as of this week, I'm watching Eureka, Warehouse 13, Alphas, Castle, NCIS, Glee, The New Girl, America's Next Top Model, Fringe, Haven, and Doctor Who. Some of these shows are ending for the season very soon. Others are just getting started. Still others have not yet made an appearance on the schedule. Thank the Great Pumpkin for Tivo.
Toys!
The spring line of Monster High dolls has just been announced. I have acquired the Modern Doll Collector's Convention Evangeline ("Soul Sweeping"), but not the centerpiece doll (which I want very much). I have arranged a proxy for the Halloween convention. I am, in short, insane. But wow, do I have lots of toys staring at you while you try to sleep.
Cats.
Insane.
"Wicked Girls" T-shirts.
At the printer now! Soon, I shall have them, and soon, we shall begin sorting out the shipping process. Since some of you did order them as gifts for the holiday season, I may try doing a "priority boarding" post, where I say "let us know if you need yours soon for any reason," and bump those people to the front of the queue. If I do this, however, I need to trust that only people with real need will ask; more than fifty such requests, and we won't be able to handle them, so no one will get out-of-order shipping. And the spreadsheet is really random, the order in which your request was placed has nothing to do with it.
...and that is all, for right now. More to come later.
I need a nap.
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I only get the Cleo ones.. and some of the side bits, like Hisset.. but then, I have run out of room for books, toys, and art already, so bringing something new in is a tradeoff.
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I can't. Seriously. I have flown to LA, SFO, LaGuardia and JFK for Springsteen concerts. No, you don't have to reply to this.
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My list includes eight out of your eleven, all but Alphas, Glee, and Top Model. (I watched the pilot of The New Girl online, and was more charmed than I expected to be.) In addition, my list of returning shows this week will include Harry's Law, The Big Bang Theory, and Masterpiece Mystery, and I'll be sampling 2 Broke Girls, Person of Interest, and Prime Suspect. Good thing there's room on the DVR. Opening night for my show is Thursday, so I won't have time to watch any of them this week.
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To give context--Thriller freaks L out but she saw the Pirates at the Alameda County Fair and thought they were neat. She also likes to talk about how much Thriller freaks her out which translates to me as a differnt kinda fear than the one I harbor.
Edit: just checked out the website and I'm pretty sure we're not there yet. Couple more years. I want to go though!
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O RLY?? (Is this Rewind or something else?)
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I flew 2,400 miles to catch Great Big Sea for the first time. Hopping to a nearby state pales in comparison... 8-)
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I've been wanting to watch Haven for a while now, I should get season 1 on Netflix and catch up.
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AS for Wicked Girls T-shirts, I don't know how many people will request them at OVFF, but you could wait on mine and bring them with you (make space in your luggage to take things home?) ;-)
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The grown-up guest room at my in-laws house holds my MiL's entire Beanie Baby collection. At night, all the glossy little eyes glint in the glow of the hallway night light. Very, very creepy. As a result, I am quite happy to stay in the "kids room" downstairs. Also, bunkbeds!!!!
Our poor DVR is scrambling to manage the almost ending series plus the newly starting ones. The overlap is tricksy.
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And they had a Brownie who cleaned for them - that's one of my dreams. I so want a Brownie.
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TV! Yes, so much good stuff. I really enjoyed Castle last night, and I am already recording stuff because too many good things are on at the same time. Add to most of those--Raising Hope, Top Chef: Just Desserts, Community and How I Met Your Mother, and Parks and Recreation (also Hair Battle Spectacular, because my sister got me hooked on fantasy hair).
Lastly, halloween. I am seeing these posters around town for a Haunted Wonderland, and I am so hoping it's what my imagination tells me it is, and that I will have the occasion to go to, because that would be a level of awesome that could not be avoided.
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