I would already be in Double Deadline Month, when I'm expected to a) read the proofs for a 1500-page book, updating it as necessary, and b) make a year's worth of updates and changes in an 1800-page book. Except they didn't get around to sending me the proofs yet. I hope I can rely on the editor's assurances that the delay isn't going to be ( Read more... )

I was at the Vietnamese grocery store yesterday and I asked the clerk if they ever have the Thai-style tofu--you know, the rubbery kind that they put in the salad with peanut dressing? He said yes, but you have to order in advance, and it comes in a bag of a dozen cakes for $5. So I put down a deposit, then went back today to pick it up. I LOVE ( Read more... )