What I've Been Up To:
Highlights roughly in order:
I think there's actually more (not that this isn't enough), but I'm a bit exhausted right now (probably due to the sun as much as the time), so I'm going to turn in. Tomorrow is another day with family (I hope!), Friday is a D&D game after work, and Saturday and Sunday I'll be at Mythcon in New Britain, CT (just up the road). If you're also going to be there, send a holler!
I'll try to be back on a somewhat regular blogging schedule next week.
- Spent quality time with my parents
- Helped set marks for a sail boat race
- Took a cruise of the Thimble Islands
- Helped pick monster zucchini on one of the Thimbles
- Ate blueberry coffee cake and Dad's Blueberry Pie (TM) with real Michigan blueberries
- Went sailing on a gusty day without capsizing
- Went to a restaurant with the same name as my father.
- Judged the SpaceWesterns.com senryu contest entries--winners are now available online! (Some of my favorites did not make the cut.)
- Celebrated a wedding anniversary
- Visited with old friends
- Had dinner and watched movies with new(ish) friends
- Stayed out 'til almost 1 a.m. with said friends, which is remarkable for its infrequency
- Went to see the superhero exhibit at the Met in New York
- Debated the virtues of Stark Tech vs. Wayne Tech.
- Had hot chocolate with dragonladyflame
- Wrote several "e-mails" and "interludes" from the perspective of my vampire alter-ego for the Dogs in the Vineyard game I mentioned awhile ago
- Started learning about grant writing
- Ordered and received skzbrust's new Vlad Taltos novel (which my husband promptly devoured), nalini_singh's most recent Psy-Changeling novel (because waiting for it to become available through the library was driving me nuts), and blue_succubus's Storm Born, the first in her new series.
- Typed portions of a new short story I wrote mostly on scrap paper.
- Neglected to turn anything in to Arielle for my first "hold me accountable for fiction" deadline.
- Got paid for freelance work.
- Went to the dentist.
- Spent all day at the beach with a large group of fifth to eighth graders and had an absolute ball.
- Went to B&N to replace Storm Born, as my copy arrived with water damage from the copious amount of rain we've been having.
- Went back to the beach to have a grill out with my Dogs in the Vineyard group.
- Discovered that spending time from 10 a.m. through, effectively, 7 p.m. at the beach leads to sunburn on the face.
- Had my poor vampire almost die. Again. She made it. Also again.
- Found the aloe in the med kit still packed from Greece and Turkey.
I think there's actually more (not that this isn't enough), but I'm a bit exhausted right now (probably due to the sun as much as the time), so I'm going to turn in. Tomorrow is another day with family (I hope!), Friday is a D&D game after work, and Saturday and Sunday I'll be at Mythcon in New Britain, CT (just up the road). If you're also going to be there, send a holler!
I'll try to be back on a somewhat regular blogging schedule next week.