Thankful Thursday
Hoo boy, are there things to be thankful for today!
1. Revisions on SPIDER FINGERS have all been entered! This was my one day to write this week. (I had hoped to have time yesterday, but it got more complicated than it looked on paper, so I only had three hours between arriving home from one meeting and going out to another. I used the time to get caught up on some of the paperwork-y things that invade our lives.) So, as soon as I got home from my massage this morning--shoulders all nice and loose, mind ready to flow--I made a cup of coffee and got to work. This means I will make my goal of subbing to that interested agent before the end of the month.
2. Strawberries are ripe! On my way home from meeting 1 yesterday, I dashed the extra few miles to my CSA, River Berry Farm, for some spinach I knew they had, and lo and behold, there was the sign: "Pick Your Own Strawberries." I didn't have time to pick, but I did add a quart to the bag of spinach and I had a spinach and strawberry salad with my left over chicken schnitzel. (The salad also included some thin slices of Vidalia onions, and was dressed very simply with orange juice and olive oil, plus a bit of ground sea salt.) Next week, somehow, I'll fit in some strawberry picking with BD.
3. Cory Doctorow is amazing! I finished reading Little Brother last night and wanted to run out and tell everyone I know about this blow-me-away great book that everyone should read. I love that it's set in San Francisco and that it has really smart young adults of both sexes and that it gets almost everything right (there's this one paragraph that sounded the biased language alarm on copyeditor-me --why note the sex of one soldier when you don't note the gender of the other?). But one paragraph out of a whole book. is no biggie.
4. Tickets to see the Sox on Saturday! We haven't been to Fenway in probably 21 years. I know I haven't. I think HH may have gone, back before BD started school, so that's at least 15-16 years. The tickets came courtesy of HH's brother's office mate, and they make yet another weekend of The Great Sorting bearable. Yes, that process will end.
5. We have a location for the July 2010 League of Vermont Writers Conference. Since I haven't actually spoken with the contact person at the venue yet, I can't say more than saputnam should be pleased.
6. The Green Mountain Book Award committee has two new members and I'm looking forward to working with them, and to reading more great YA books. (I just started Wintergirls and am already going Wow!)
Now, off to another meeting. It's been an eventful week.