excited9. Emerald City Comic Con is this weekend! I have posted my schedule. It's very packed and very pretty, and I am super excited about all the good things to come. Whee!
8. Before I left California, Kate and I did a massive post office run, and I mailed another huge batch of domestic shirts, as well as about a third of the remaining international shirts. I will try to send another batch before I leave for the UK (although I can't guarantee it). Also, my mother called to let me know that a box from the shirt shop has shown up, which I presume contains the shirts that weren't printed in the initial delivery. Hooray! I won't be able to sort these until after April 15th, but hopefully this means we can finish fulfillment sooner than later. Thank you all for your patience.
7. Still not writing the X-Men. Give me time.
6. Rolling in the Deep comes out next month! On the seventh, to be exact, and it is fancy. Seriously, this may be the fanciest book I have ever written, at least in terms of awesome production values. What a fancy, fancy book. Also it is filled with murderous mermaids and ill-fated ocean voyages, which are two of my favorite things. Because this is a Subterranean Press book, there's no guarantee it will be coming to a bookstore near you, and it may need to be ordered directly from the publisher.
5. This morning was the San Diego Comic-Con hotel scramble, and it says something about how stressful this is on an annual basis that I was on the Air B&B site shortly after, looking at local condos and thinking "maybe this wouldn't be so bad." I need help, and the con needs a better way of handling hotel assignments.
4. We are getting pedicures today. Because we are fancy ladies.
3. Speaking of fancy ladies, I am seeing so many of my favorite fancy ladies this coming weekend that I can't even express how happy I am. Like, I try, and all the words go away and then the flailing happens and sometimes I just really love my life, okay? Sometimes my life is best.
2. Zombies are love.
1. I will be going to Disney World for the first half of May, so if I seem a little AHHHHHHHHHHHH for the next few weeks, it's because I am literally three conventions and six weeks away from Disney time, and I need Disney time so bad y'all, I need it so bad I can taste it.
What's shiny and new with all of you?
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March 25 2015, 18:52:06 UTC 2 years ago
Have a wonderful weekend at Emerald City!
July 22 2015, 22:03:17 UTC 1 year ago
March 27 2015, 00:35:10 UTC 2 years ago
5) You are officially insane. I mean, we all knew that, but it's nice to affirm it every now and then, right?
4) My fiancee` (then girlfriend) took me to get a pedicure last year. Now we go once every couple of months. It was disconcerting when the nice lady pulled out a cheese grater and used it on my feet.
2) My ex told me Humboldt squid were love. I think she was right. Can both zombies AND Humboldt squid be love? Is love a zombified Huboldt squid? I'm So Confused.
Oh, shiny and new with me? Right, moving to SF in like 4 months. Feel like I'm losing my mind. Still worried about the tarantulas.
July 22 2015, 22:03:50 UTC 1 year ago
July 23 2015, 13:59:00 UTC 1 year ago
Also sometimes painful and deadly.
And, if you're REALLY LUCKY, world-ending.
March 27 2015, 01:54:00 UTC 2 years ago
July 22 2015, 22:04:03 UTC 1 year ago
Your Website
March 29 2015, 23:16:37 UTC 2 years ago
RE: Your Website
July 22 2015, 22:04:17 UTC 1 year ago
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"It's the beating heart of summer"
April 3 2015, 04:12:50 UTC 2 years ago
I survived another winter in Alabama, which was like a vampire that would never leave. I have made it to another solstice and another turning of the season. Since I am basically a child of Summer, I am so relieved that it's made me cry this week. Last winter made me want to do more than symbolically die, so the passage through is a good thing.
[I will not quote Jean Grey's favorite line -- any version -- as the Phoenix at you. Too easy. I am just thinking it very hard in Emma Frost's general direction.]
I am once again reaffirming my commitment to stay (on this planet, this mortal coil, this incarnation, etc.). New year, new persona, new projects. I will be forty years old on April 20. I'm going to decide by then, if I can, whether I have to start a different career or not, and if so, what. Not sure what I will do, but something needs to change.
But I have wonderful, amazing friends, and I recently celebrated the Japanse Cherry Blossom Festival with some of them over at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. The new profile photo is from then, and I am holding a copy of Namesake Volume 2 signed by my friend Megan Lavey-Heaton.
Summer. Sour plums to eat by the bagful, ginkgo leaves all over my parents' street, heat that will probably reach a hundred degrees, shorts and mini-skirts, popsicle trucks and tomatoes, daylight that seems like it will never leave. I'm glad to be still here for it.
Mack
"It's the beating heart of summer and the night is full of life..." -- Echo's Children
EDIT on summer (because it's still spring)
April 12 2015, 05:40:49 UTC 2 years ago
However, from the way I wrote my paragraph, I would appear to be a blithering idiot, skipping over an entire season (like, half of spring) in my delight. What I meant to say, and what actually came out as words on screen, were two different things.
'Winter, spring, summer, and fall, so the seasons proceed.
It's probably a good thing I had editors back when I was a reporter.
RE: "It's the beating heart of summer"
July 22 2015, 22:04:37 UTC 1 year ago
RE: "It's the beating heart of summer"
July 23 2015, 03:37:41 UTC 1 year ago
1. Two good friends who took me out to the bookstore tonight at short notice, after a family argument where I couldn't drive myself to leave for a bit.
2. A good psychiatrist working with me on my anxiety, etc., through her own probable temptation to throw her hands up in exasperation.
3. My tabby cat, Beowulf the mighty hunter, sitting out on the porch tonight, serene amid the chaos of hastily moved law office furniture.
4. A job interview with a community college for a job teaching English full-time. Even if I don't get the job, it gave me confidence.
5. And (a bit of a numerical cheat) -- you in general. Three good things leading from you: my delight in an awesome posted t-shirt picture ("We Are Not Things" )of a neon rainbow-haired Seanan; the Counting Crows album, "Somewhere under Wonderland," that I finally gave a chance past the first song, now playing in the next room; and the smile on my face after reading "Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus."
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