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"All our times have come, here but now they're gone."

greygirlbeast Jul 05, 2024 21:15

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... )

climate change, hate, journalism, money, hurricanes, cover art, disillusion, the horror clown, we have always lived in the castle, democratic party, heat, politics, democracy, worry, fascism, insomnia, trees, good books, rent, anxiety, the howl, cigarettes, bright dead star, anti-semitism, green, reading, bill

"Light shining from a dead star."

greygirlbeast Jul 16, 2022 17:19

Sunny and hot today. The high was 91˚F, with a heat index of 96˚F ( Read more... )

mythos tales, donna tarrt, physics, paleontology, "living a boy's adventure tale", houses under the sea, stress, anxiety, the secret history, fear, the sky, cigarettes, flowers, depression, mosasaurs, monster doodles

"I make a home inside the wind. Stars are burning in the west."

greygirlbeast May 23, 2020 21:22

Another fine early summer day. We reached 88˚F, with a heat index of 91˚F. And then the thunderstorm came, though far less violent than yesterday's. Currently it's 71˚F ( Read more... )

documentaries, sweden, bad teeth, distraction, kill your fear, covid-19, anxiety, despair, outside, cigarettes, sirenia late, inside, depression, strange days, rupaul's drag race, interstate love long, good tv

"Let me have a half of your whole. Let me keep it for myself awhile."

greygirlbeast Aug 16, 2019 13:47

Hot today, but the humidity is very low, so it's not bad at all. Currently, it's 93˚F, wit the heat index at 92˚F ( Read more... )

displaced, cigarettes, money, not writing, childhood, camels, stairs, then vs. now

On the Dotted

greygirlbeast Jul 30, 2019 16:39

Mostly cloudy here, and currently it's 89˚F, with the hat index at 92˚F ( Read more... )

cigarettes, "anamorphosis", bad teeth, subterranean press, crawtaters, signature sheets, 1996, hpl, reading, lovecraft

It Can Always Get Wors[er]

greygirlbeast Sep 14, 2018 21:28

The past few days have been bad enough that I've started smoking again.

From my Facebook today:

One good night's sleep in five or six, and I wake up angry at the world and depressed and exhausted. And I'm supposed to write.

~ and ~

I have not written in ten days. Right now, I have the second half of long-overdue The Tindalos Asset to write ( Read more... )

mountain brook, cigarettes, bad days, anger, depression, insomnia, deadlines, anxiety, lost days

Laundry and Boxes and BBQ

greygirlbeast Jun 30, 2018 11:07

Sunny here, with the clouds building into thunderheads. Currently, it's 88˚F, with the heat index at 97˚F, humidity at 63%.

Yesterday I got some stuff together for Subterranean Press (the "lost" corrected galleys for The Dinosaur Tourist) and signed contracts for my NEXT new SubPress short-fiction collection, the one AFTER The Dinosaur Tourist ( ( Read more... )

leeds, books, cigarettes, subterranean press, moving, too damn many books, sirenia digest, mom, barbeque, rupaul's drag race, the dinosaur tourist, food

"And it's too late. The damage is done."

greygirlbeast Oct 04, 2017 12:05

Sunny today, and my mood isn't quite so black. There's no logic to these things. Currently, it's 76˚F.

Yesterday, I began compiling the ms. for the Centipede Press ediion of Silk. I only made it through the first two chapters, because I was still getting the feel for the whole cut, paste, change margins, new indent, blah, blah, whatever. Today, I ( Read more... )

good movies, lizards, money, the dancy box, flight of the phoenix, 1996, steven lubold, silk, futureshock, "bus fare", 2010, cigarettes, dancy, lord dunsany, jittery joes, athens, john hay library, 1993, alabaster, 40 watt club, ozark, then vs. now, good tv