Another good night's sleep, three in a row. It was sunny again early, cloudy again late, but no storms today. Currently, it's 78˚F, and the cicadas are loud in the trees ( Read more... )

On this day in 1994, I moved out of the apartment at 1619 16th Avenue South, on Birmingham's Southside, where I'd lived since 1990, and went away to spend three years in Athens, Georgia. It was a vital and momentous and necessary move. I'm fairly certain it saved me from a dead end, that move. Maybe literally. Getting out of there and going to ( Read more... )

Still very cold here, but nothing like the icy hell that's been visited upon the Midwest and the Northeast. Currently, it's 31˚F. But warmer, more seasonable weather is on the way ( Read more... )

Coldish and cloudy some today, sunny some today, especially now, as the sun drops below the horizon. Currently, it's 53˚F ( Read more... )

Another sunny day. Currently, it's 41˚F

Also, another day that's left me feeling very odd. It began with a trip to the apartment building on 16th Avenue where I lived from December 1989 until April 1994. And...actually, I think I'm gonna save that part for tomorrow's entry. I need to wind down. So, later ( Read more... )

Cold and rainy today. Currently, it's overcast and 42˚F, with the windchill at 39˚F. It's going to miserable all the way through Sunday, apparently, with no sun again until Monday. I have, over the last decade, become an oddly solar-powered beast. It's hard to believe that, many years ago, I loved rainy days; now they almost do me in ( Read more... )

Overcast, rainy, and cold, currently 48˚F, the windchill at 42˚F.

Yesterday was the absolute definition of frustration, as I labored with the second half of the galleys for the Tor.com edition of Black Helicopters and with the copy editor's vandalism and with "track changes" (or whatever it's called). Over the past two days, I spent about six ( Read more... )

Cold here in Providence, currently 42˚F, with the windchill at 38˚F. There was sun when I woke, but it's gone now, and there's rain coming. I feel like I hardly slept last night, because I think that I hardly did.

Yesterday, I left the House for the first time in more than a week, and we went to the RISD Museum to see "Lines of Thought: Drawing ( Read more... )

Rainy, mostly cloudy today. Currently, the temperature is at 78˚F, the humidity at 85 ( Read more... )

You know what? I'm really fucking sick to death of trying to impress people - editors, reviewers, readers, et al. I've been trying since 1992 to impress people, most of whom I do not even know and never will know. And I'm done with it. It's been twenty-five years, and if I haven't managed it yet, it's never going to happen. Whatever this next novel ( Read more... )