We went to the woods along Empire Grade just across from upper campus but while we found some pretty things, and lots of fresh, shiny black bambi poop and dead bambi by the road, we found nothing to bring home ( Read more... )

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to North of Infinity III. I said my connection to Canada was I danced at a powwow there 30 years ago, Niagara Falls made me cry, and I have a couple of friends in Canada.

I love email subs.

Also, went to the picket line at the University for a while. It's a big deal. It's huge. All the clerical, technical, food service, and maintenance workers ( Read more... )

Thanks to Nicky Matthews, Julian Flood, and most of all papersky, I have conquered the query, and it is in the mail.

I sent Convoy to the Washington Future address that Brenda Clough sent me. I sent Dog to Quantum Muse.

Not a bad day, considering. I took Emma to the DMV, took the dog for two walks, washed the dishes, painted a cabinet, and wrote some stuff and mailed some stuff and helped Emma with scholarship applications ( Read more... )

I'm pretty messed up still from the teeth and other adventures, I guess. But I took another pass through the landmines story which got rejected this weekend, found some weird typoes that shouldn't have been there, tightened it a little, and printed it and got its envelopes ready for mailing to Absolute Magnitude. I don't know. I'm not a very ( Read more... )

So I made two deadlines in less than a week. I might be getting better at this.

By the way, nothing will bring tears to the eyes faster than standing beneath a blossoming plum tree,
while one's daughter plays piobaireachd inside.

I put a gallery of pictures of Arana Gulch in under "seasons" which is under "fecundity." Distinguishing characteristic: rolling slopes down to a riparian, views of Loma Prieta (a mountain) and the yacht harbor. The park was saved from paving by the existence of a dinky little wildflower which is unique (we got a bunch of those around here ( Read more... )

first -- this is a memo to me: I sent The Conduit to Tor today, standard submission packet --first 3 chapters and synopsis ( Read more... )