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I'm Still Here
Hello, friends. Yes, it's true, I haven't posted here on LiveJournal in a very long time, and while my entries were never exactly regular, I certainly didn't intend to go this long without writing. I still like LiveJournal, I look at it almost every day, and I read everything my friends post here. I'm glad that so many of you are still posting, ( Read more... ) -
once again, it's good to be the birthday girl
Today I celebrated my birthday on Martha's Vineyard. Despite growing up in Massachusetts, this is my first trip to the island. It's lovely here, quaint and peaceful and sunny and not too cold.
My birthday included:
- chocolate pancakes
- alpacas!
- houses like candy-colored gingerbread
- a clam roll
- ice cream
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What I Did On My Winter Vacation
We just returned from a family trip to Point Reyes Station, near the coast north of San Francisco, where I:
* Sprained my foot on the first night. Doh! There was a power outage, and I was attempting to go outside to admire the stars in complete darkness during a brief period of cloudlessness, but I was foiled by a wet front step. As a result, I ( Read more... ) -
travel notes (such as they are): Massachusetts and Rhode Island
I grow weary of my uncompleted travel notes. Herewith, the rest of the now-long-ago trip, in a desultory fashion ( Read more... ) -
a goldurned LJ post
Time for another one of those "I've been meaning to post for two weeks" posts.
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a happy birthday
The calendar has rolled around again, and now it's once more my birthday. Perusing my previous birthday entries, we can detect a certain theme involving food, and also note that every year I'm required to say, "It's good to be the birthday girl." Well, it is. Today I am 33 years old, the weather is beautiful, my brother is visiting, I'm drinking ( Read more... ) -
a beautiful day for a rejection
I'm not going to be giving a play-by-play of my agent search here, but it has begun, and today I marked an important milestone: I received my first rejection letter! Hooray, I'm a real author on the road to publication!
My Script Frenzy screenplay is coming along nicely. I'm up to page 40, which is great in terms of the 100-page goal for the ( Read more... ) -
on a clear day in San Francisco, you can see for miles
We have quite a few relatives coming to visit this spring and summer, and the first set is here now. The weather has been wonderfully cooperative, and we've been doing a lot of fun tourism. Last weekend we went to Berkeley and to Santa Cruz. Yesterday we visited San Francisco and a series of spots worth mentioning.
Ocean Beach is lovely in ( Read more... )
