So, since my post January 8th about Murdering a Big Darling, it took until *yesterday* to get That ONE scene right. I started it three times. Twice dreadfully. Then, after having screwed it up the second time, i got the opening dialogue down in my brain, but had no chance to do more than scribble the bare bones of the first exchange in my notebook ( Read more... )

I'm In!

What happened with World Fantasy Convention is simultaneously simple and inexplicable. My regular e-mail address - which is a working e-mail address on which I have received things as recently as today - bounced. Twice. They finally reached me on the query I sent yesterday via Gmail. But they've wanted me in all along ( Read more... )

It was probably terribly wrong of me to go to the heather Dale Concert Friday night rather than to the wedding rehearsal. In fact, the single wisest thing I could have done would be to stay home and sew so that i could in fact get a full night's sleep ( Read more... )

This is what's been going on in my church.

( The United Church of Canada Policy on Sexual Misconduct. )

Well, according to the doctor, it's not a migraine (Which i never thought it was), my blood pressure is normal, and the headache likely not much to worry about in spite of how long it's been going. She did suggest stress and tension were factors, though not the sole factors ( Read more... )

Well, I passed the exam. I might even have done well - I missed a question in total and some individual replies I'm unsure about ( Read more... )

Progress notes for December 11, 2006:

The Serpent Prince

New Words: 1237 words.
Reason for stopping: Bedtime
Tea: white chocolate coffee when the hour warranted it, chocolate milk later.
Music: Yasmine White, Camerata Nova's Christmas CD, David Bowie.
Mean Things: a 13 year old thinks he's being hit on by a pedophile. Who's politically necessary ( Read more... )

On Friday morning, I got a job offer ( Read more... )

Something I haven't mentioned in the scholastic panic: on Tuesday I finally did something I haven't done in well over a year -- prompted in part by seeing all the happy conversation among the new crop of Viable Paradise students (And the happy conversation of their instructors), plus reading Kate Wilhelm's Storyteller, about the longer, nastier ( Read more... )