I'm working this whole week at the Roseville Library from 9am to 1pm... which is kind of both awesome and a bummer.

Obviously, the money is awesome and, honestly, Roseville is one of my favorite libraries to work at.  I like the people and it's always busy enough to keep me hopping and the time flying by.  The bummer is that this is the week that ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was supposed to work on my sample chapters. I just could NOT get motivated. I don't know why. I have lots of other things I could blame besides myself, of course, including the fact that Shawn ended up not going to work (she had to attend the funeral of her co-worker/friend's mom) and Mason had the day off from school. Mason, ( Read more... )

Last night, Kyell Gold was in town and he invted me and naomikritzer to hang out with the folks at SofaWolf.* I had a tremendous time. Perhaps the tiny bit of hard cider I injested helped me be loud and boisterous, and I remember standing at the threshold when it was clearly time to leave still shouting excitedly about Harry Potter. I'm fairly sure they had ( Read more... )

This last weekend was Gaylaxicon, which I was quite honored to be one of the GoHs of this year.  When I arrived and checked-in/registered, I thought that the con was likely off to a VERY BAD START when I discovered that there were NO condoms (or lube!) in the swag bag.  I spent the next several hours complaining about this, btw.  Loudly.  Luckily, ( Read more... )