At least I slept a couple more hours last night. I woke at 4:30, then got up at 5 a.m. and actually managed to get to work. Unfortunately, I got to work on MP 2.0., not on The Night Watchers, which seems to be increasingly viewed as not working at all. I would have written, had I known what to write ( Read more... )

The clouds are here, though it is still fairly warm. Our high was 78F ( Read more... )

Another warm day. Indian Summer is back for sure. The high was 77F.

Last night, instead of going to bed when Kathryn did, I waited about half an hour and then wrote the fifth interlude for The Night Watchers. It came to 1,265, oddly the same word count from the night before. I think I got to bed about 2 a.m. My 2 a.m., which is the same as EST 2 a ( Read more... )

Sunny, then cloudy today. Our high was 90˚F, with a heat index of 97˚F.

I woke last night just before 1 a.m. and was awake until after 2 a.m. Then I overslept, not waking until 7:30 and not getting out of bed until 7:45. And that left the day more off kilter even than usual. I proofed and edited "Paleozoic Annunciation" for Bradbury Weather. It's ( Read more... )

Four good days, and then today. Tomorrow, I have to try and pull myself back up again.

From my Facebook, this morning:

The desperate need to keep busy and the ability to keep busy are two entirely different things. The latter does not follow from the former, and will has nothing to do with it. If I let myself stop and think, if I pause to take a ( Read more... )

Cold and sunny. Currently, it's 31˚F, with the windchill at 21˚F.

Sirenia Digest No. 145 went out to subscribers this morning. And yesterday the ARCs for the expanded Tor.com edition of Black Helicopters arrived. It's a handsome little book, and I was surprised at how much longer it is than Agents of Dreamland. That should help a little with the ( Read more... )

This sounded so good yesterday, I'm going to say it again today...

Have you PREORDERED? If not, please take a moment to preorder at least a dozen copies of the Alabaster: Wolves hardcover. Just kidding. Four will do. But, kittens, this is how you get more. Also, maybe we'll get a Dancy/Maisie girl-on-ghost action centerfold, if I ask Greg nicely ( Read more... )

The first day of summer, and BAM, it's going to be hot as Hades. Wait, was Hades actually hot? Anyway, booya, summer finally comes to Providence! A high of 93˚F. today. Even hotter tomorrow ( Read more... )

I know it's gonna be a goddamn weird day when the first thing I read after crawling (moaning) from bed is an article in The Economist. But, really South Carolina people. Newt Gingrich? Newt fucking Gingrich? That crackpot from the radio? A paragon of Southern white conservative sleaze who's clearly proud of being a paragon of Southern white ( Read more... )

Sick as a dog. As a sick dog, I mean. I've never understood the whole "sick as a dog" thing, as though the normative canine state is sick. I've also never much understood football, but mostly, these days, I keep my mouth shut about it. Lots of people who get wet over touchdowns can't begin to appreciate the importance of a warlock's staff having + ( Read more... )