Bright today. Our high was 84.9F.

Kathryn and I had an especially productive late morning talking through the restructuring of The Night Watchers. I want to actually be writing by Thursday, so we only get a couple more of these sessions. Much of what I'll be doing is trimming backstory, which was excessive, to make the novel leaner and more ( Read more... )

Hot today. Out high was only 91F, but the heat index was 100F.

I have discussed with Kathryn, today, putting this journal on hiatus for the time being. I have so much work - the novella, The Night Watchers, the essay for the Oxford Press book on Shirley Jackson, MP2 - the journal has become one of many distractions. It has also become a place a ( Read more... )

Sunny and hot, but not fuck-you hot. Our high was 92F, with a heat index of 96F ( Read more... )

We're under a heat advisory. That said, the projected high for today was 97F, and, thanks to some unexpected cloud cover, we only reached 90F. Even so, our heat index went to 101F. Tomorrow's high is projected for 99F, and if that happens, the heat index will be brutal.

I started Harlan's Ellison Wonderland (1962), and I read ( Read more... )

So...anyway, the sun came back today. Our high was 90˚F, with a heat index of 96˚F ( Read more... )

Sunny today, but only 78˚F. Currently, it's 67˚F.

I finished the re-read of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Live in the Castle. My copy (well, one of my copies and the one in this photograph) was a gift from Peter Straub. It was signed by Jackson to Bernard Malamud in September 1962, who later donated it to the Bennington College Library. And at ( Read more... )

The sun is bright today, but it's currently 27˚F, with the windchill at 15˚F ( Read more... )

Last night, I got the first good night's sleep I've had in a long time. But I'm still groggy this morning ( Read more... )

Cloudy. We had sun earlier. Earlier than that, we had torrential rain and a flood warning. Currently, it's 76˚F ( Read more... )

Sunny and cold here. Currently, it's 34˚F, windchill at 24˚F. There's talk of snow late this weekend ( Read more... )