* Announce the awesomeness that is Ravens in the Library, a benefit anthology for SJ Tucker. Announce this to, among other people, my mother, who responds with an hour-long rant about the state of American medicine. I could charge admission to my mom when she's worked up about something, I swear.
* Receive edits for my Ravens in the Library story. Review the edits, and determine that yes, they're pretty much all accurate. (This is why I have people who read for me. It's a vital part of not looking like a total idiot every time I turn something in.) Life is good.
* Approach the cage where the supine form of Late Eclipses of the Sun lurks, waiting to strike. Poke a stick through the bars. The book does not respond. Rattle the stick around. The book does not respond. Unlock the cage. Suddenly get attacked by five hundred pages of snarling, possibly rabid manuscript. Decide to start work on Saturday, when I have access to a bone saw.
* Turn in some website corrections to my long-suffering, utterly fabulous web dude, Chris. (Mysteriously, Chris is setting up the new interface so that I can make certain small text changes on my own. I think, perhaps, working with the world's most obsessive editor is getting to him.) (I love you, Chris.)
* Do a lot of inking to make the items listed above less aneurysm-inducing. Because nothing says 'soothing' like three panels of cross-hatching.
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January 8 2009, 16:23:26 UTC 8 years ago
Yeah for the album! Can't wait for the mad science!
And I ordered a copy of Ravens in the Library because, hey, Charles de Lint that would be impossible to track down later, and I too have spent time ranting about the state of American medicine. Then I noticed you had done a story for it, and wow, now it's another think to look forward to.
January 9 2009, 15:01:34 UTC 8 years ago
And yay, thank you for ordering. It's an awesome thing.
January 8 2009, 17:03:48 UTC 8 years ago
I wasn't in active labor, and I'm still waiting for that to actually happen.
I am still grumpy about the exchange with the advice nurse (new this week, anyway?).
But in the meanwhile I am doing pretty well, feeling pretty good, and getting work-work done. (Because it's an easy-interrupt task, my boss has me doing info-dumps into our team wiki. This has needed to happen for a while, it's fun for me, it's easy, it's helpful, and it's low-stress. Win all around!)
January 9 2009, 15:01:57 UTC 8 years ago
January 8 2009, 17:45:04 UTC 8 years ago
Hooray for album! (If and only if you have half a moment, does that mean that shipping will start sometime in early Feb or thereabouts? For, y'know, laid-back versions of thereabouts. Just a vague indication of when I should start laying bear traps around the mailbox and all that, rather than trying to joggle your arm. >_> )
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January 8 2009, 19:31:45 UTC 8 years ago
Actually, if you have time to blog about this at some point, I'd love to know what you do to get all you do done. (If that made sense...) I have a bunch of things I need to accomplish and little to no idea how to even hack away at it.
January 9 2009, 15:03:59 UTC 8 years ago
January 10 2009, 20:00:42 UTC 8 years ago
I struggle to accomplish ONE useful thing a day that isn't "successfully make it to work so I don't get fired". I'm rather in awe of you.
January 11 2009, 07:59:19 UTC 8 years ago
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Oh, and Holly Black just joined the RAVENS, too.
January 9 2009, 15:04:30 UTC 8 years ago
I'm really tempted to record my mother ranting and put it up as a sound clip. It's kinda awesome, in a deeply sad 'why is the world like this?' sort of a way.
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