urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2009-08-17T14:06:28Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:142090 2009-08-17T14:06:28Z 2009-08-17T14:06:28Z Counting Crows, "Rain King/Thunder Road." 1. BART is not on strike. I would say "yay, the unions reached a settlement," but since I left Lilly alone with my Internet-equipped computer just before the strike was called off, I'm going to opt for "yay, my Siamese is not fire-bombing the California coastline to protest Mommy not coming home for a week." Don't mess with the Siamese. You will regret it.<br /><br />2. Fourteen days. Just saying.<br /><br />3. My new Netbook is a joy and a wonder, except when it's royally fucking stuff up. Most recently, it has elected to royally fuck up the .ms of <i>Red Hood's Revenge</i> that I was giving a quick polish for Jim. I'm attempting file recovery now, and if that doesn't work, I'll just go through the .ms a second time. Thankfully, it was relatively clean.<br /><br />4. Also thankfully, my Netbook did <i>not</i> elect to royally fuck up the latest draft of <i>The Brightest Fell</i> (Toby Daye, book five). This is A Very Good Thing. I would be substantially less sanguine about that particular rewrite. There might be screaming, and possibly the eating of human flesh. Mmmm, human flesh.<br /><br />5. The incredibly awesome stick insect that has been sticking to Kate and GP's front door frame for the last few weeks was gone this morning when I went out to meet the bus. I wish him all good things in his future endeavors, and hope that he is not inside the house, preparing to crawl into someone's ear.<br /><br />6. I have decided that I don't like second books in trilogies that don't admit to being trilogies when I pick them up. There will be more on this later.<br /><br />7. I want a nap.<br /><br />How's by you?