Ten good things about today.
10. I am not only packed and ready for BayCon, I found a ride for my suitcase! Yes! I do not have to take my suitcase -- which is almost as large as I am -- on public transit! This is just about the most awesome of all the awesome things that could have possibly happened. This is triple awesome with awesome sauce on top.
9. Chris has introduced me to an absolutely awesome series of young adult novels: Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I love Greek mythology. I love snark. I love well-written young adult fantasy. This is like the tasty candy corn sundae of fiction, and I love it.
8. My Wednesday recording session (about which there will be more later) went really, really well. We have both the lead and backing vocals for 'Causes and Effects' done, and Vixy's spoken vocals for 'Oh, Michelle'. There are still a few little verbal bits to go on 'Oh, Michelle', as well as a big stack o' guest stars for the last chorus, but that can happen later. We're moving forward!
7. Tom Smith has agreed to provide the male vocal line for 'Another Mad Science Love Song'! Yes!!!! I get to sing with Paul Kwinn and Tom Smith on the same album (and possibly the same song, if Paul's willing to be a minion). That is so, so amazing. One of the best things about recording is having the chance to record with people I not only adore as friends, but also respect musically. World of win.
6. I am less than fifty pages from the end of A Local Habitation, the second of the Toby Daye books. The improvement in this book since the last draft is almost literally breathtaking. I mean, it's just fantastic. There's still a lot of work to be done, but my faith in the text has increased a thousand-fold. And it wasn't exactly bad before! Wow. Just wow.
5. Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff will be appearing live in concert tonight at BayCon. So. Much. Awesome.
4. Thanks to my mother being willing to run errands with me, I have a fresh can of mousse, a box of fiber bars, and brand new, bright pink earplugs for the convention. So I'm going to get to, y'know, sleep, eat, and have decent hair.
3. Kate and I got our legs waxed yesterday. It hurt like hell, as I hadn't had mine done since Boskone, but it was so very, very worth it. I need to remember to visit the salon more often, to avoid such exciting adventures in pinpoint pain.
2. Thanks to BayCon, I have an excuse to wear thigh-high camo socks with big orange stars on them. In public. WIN.
1. I get to spend the weekend with Kate and Rey and Vixy and Tony and Paul and Beckett and Michelle and David and Kaia and Matt and...
World of win.
What's awesome in the world of you?
9. Chris has introduced me to an absolutely awesome series of young adult novels: Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I love Greek mythology. I love snark. I love well-written young adult fantasy. This is like the tasty candy corn sundae of fiction, and I love it.
8. My Wednesday recording session (about which there will be more later) went really, really well. We have both the lead and backing vocals for 'Causes and Effects' done, and Vixy's spoken vocals for 'Oh, Michelle'. There are still a few little verbal bits to go on 'Oh, Michelle', as well as a big stack o' guest stars for the last chorus, but that can happen later. We're moving forward!
7. Tom Smith has agreed to provide the male vocal line for 'Another Mad Science Love Song'! Yes!!!! I get to sing with Paul Kwinn and Tom Smith on the same album (and possibly the same song, if Paul's willing to be a minion). That is so, so amazing. One of the best things about recording is having the chance to record with people I not only adore as friends, but also respect musically. World of win.
6. I am less than fifty pages from the end of A Local Habitation, the second of the Toby Daye books. The improvement in this book since the last draft is almost literally breathtaking. I mean, it's just fantastic. There's still a lot of work to be done, but my faith in the text has increased a thousand-fold. And it wasn't exactly bad before! Wow. Just wow.
5. Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff will be appearing live in concert tonight at BayCon. So. Much. Awesome.
4. Thanks to my mother being willing to run errands with me, I have a fresh can of mousse, a box of fiber bars, and brand new, bright pink earplugs for the convention. So I'm going to get to, y'know, sleep, eat, and have decent hair.
3. Kate and I got our legs waxed yesterday. It hurt like hell, as I hadn't had mine done since Boskone, but it was so very, very worth it. I need to remember to visit the salon more often, to avoid such exciting adventures in pinpoint pain.
2. Thanks to BayCon, I have an excuse to wear thigh-high camo socks with big orange stars on them. In public. WIN.
1. I get to spend the weekend with Kate and Rey and Vixy and Tony and Paul and Beckett and Michelle and David and Kaia and Matt and...
World of win.
What's awesome in the world of you?