"Shelter me from the powder and the finger."
Sunny for most of the day. Our high was 91F, with a heat index of 96F.
A decent day, given the way things have been going. This morning I was up at 5 a.m., I stripped the title "Mons Niloticus" off the story I'd been trying to write and "repurposed" it for a new new story. I did 1,011 words, and I like it. I mean the piece have it done sometime this weekend. It will be featured in Sirenia Digest 209.
And then I go right back to work on The Night Watchers. The next chapter is mapped out in my head.
Also, I got very good news from Berkeley, and passed the news along to Jun and Mike; that was truly the high point of the day.
My agent told me I'm about to get a decentish size check I'd not expected. It wpn't solve many of our problems, but money from the sky is always welcome. Oh, and I'll be at McWane on Friday, and October 2nd I'll be heading back to Tuscaloosa for more time among their mosasaurs.
That's a lot.
Yesterday marked the 20th day in a row that I left the house, and I didn't even realize it. Today was day 21. My goal is to be in decent enough shape by late October/early November to do a little field work. There's a site in the Mooreville Chalk I need to profile for one of the forthcoming papers with Drew, and I did not want to do it from memory and field notes.
I finished Mark Wolverton's Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space and began Norman Polmar's The Death of the USS Thresher: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster.
Oddly long day.
Please visit the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. Thanks.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
4:09 p.m.
A decent day, given the way things have been going. This morning I was up at 5 a.m., I stripped the title "Mons Niloticus" off the story I'd been trying to write and "repurposed" it for a new new story. I did 1,011 words, and I like it. I mean the piece have it done sometime this weekend. It will be featured in Sirenia Digest 209.
And then I go right back to work on The Night Watchers. The next chapter is mapped out in my head.
Also, I got very good news from Berkeley, and passed the news along to Jun and Mike; that was truly the high point of the day.
My agent told me I'm about to get a decentish size check I'd not expected. It wpn't solve many of our problems, but money from the sky is always welcome. Oh, and I'll be at McWane on Friday, and October 2nd I'll be heading back to Tuscaloosa for more time among their mosasaurs.
That's a lot.
Yesterday marked the 20th day in a row that I left the house, and I didn't even realize it. Today was day 21. My goal is to be in decent enough shape by late October/early November to do a little field work. There's a site in the Mooreville Chalk I need to profile for one of the forthcoming papers with Drew, and I did not want to do it from memory and field notes.
I finished Mark Wolverton's Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space and began Norman Polmar's The Death of the USS Thresher: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster.
Oddly long day.
Please visit the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. Thanks.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
4:09 p.m.