Very little rain today, but not sun, either. Last night theer was torrential rain and a rather dramatic car wreck on our road, not far past where we live. It's a narrow, winding road, with a steep, long drop on its north side, and people have a tendency to drive too fast through here. Add rain. Our high today was 77F ( Read more... )

The heat is back. Very sunny today. Our high today was 83F, with a heat index of 104F.

But I do not miss all that rain.

I think I forgot to mention that I finished Michael Benson's Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece and began two books: (nonfiction) Otto Friedrich's City of Nets: A Portrait of ( Read more... )

I begin to fear our entire summer will be this unrelenting heat. I am a Southerner, and the heat is right and natural to me, but this seems like something else. I suspect that last year the globe reached that much watched for tipping point, and this is the other side. A deadly Category 5 hurricane in the Gulf at the beginning of July; never before ( Read more... )

Today may have passed warm and gone to hot. Sunny all day with a high of 86F, but the mercury is still rising, and it just feels hotter. Not really complaining.

Though I didn't sleep much more last night than the night before, I got up this morning and did a little better than 1k words on The Sun Alwaays Shines on TV. It's better than nothing, and ( Read more... )

A sunny, warm day. Our high (so far) was 84F.

So, I'd finally started to feel as if maybe I could make some real progress in overcoming the entropic force of my depression. But then I missed yesterday afternoon's meds, and everything spun a little more out of control. I never, ever, fucking ever miss my meds. But I did yesterday afternoon. One ( Read more... )

Today is the 20th anniversary of this LJ, which began on this date in 2004. I was about to turn forty, and we lived in a loft in what once had been an elementary school in Atlanta. It's the year that Murder of Angels was published. Thus far, there have been 7,185 posts. This is number 7,186 ( Read more... )

Most of the day was mostly sunny, a little overcast now, but no rain in the forecast. Our high was 68F.

A flurry of work on Bright Dead Star today. Honestly, I think this manuscript is damned and determuined never, ever to be completed. It's beginning to remind me of how obsessively I edited and reedited and re-reedited The Dry Salvages in the ( Read more... )

Mostly sunny today. Our high was 68F.

Though I didn't sleep much, I was slightly more productive that yesterday. I figured out my schedule for the next few months, based on mt conversation with Bill Schafer yesterday: finish up Bright Dead Star (intro + story notes), get the digest caught up through January 2024, write the sequel to Living a Boy's ( Read more... )

Sunny and cooler today. Our high was 66F.

Maybe four hours sleep last night. And the closest thing to actual work I managed today was talking with Bill Schafer at SubPress about whether he'd prefer I first finish work on The Night Watchers or if I should wrap up this with the next short fiction collection (and it's accompanying new novella) first ( Read more... )

Sunny today and warmish. Our high was 68F ( Read more... )