Who now?

[mrissa]

I am very used to people misspelling my name. I have been Marisa Lingon, Marsha Lundgren, Manssa Unger (my band teacher had really bad handwriting), Mary Winger (some people just can't listen)...lots of stuff.

On Spec spelled my name perfectly on the cover, in the table of contents, and on the byline just under the title.

It was Carter Hall's they messed up: "Carter Hull Recovers the Puck."

Sigh.

In other news, I'm hoping that I'm having an idiosyncratic day rather than a reaction to my new allergy meds, because this is not what we call fun, and I'm not going to give you the details because I am too nice a person. Just ask me and I'll tell you how nice a person I am. Usually you don't get credit for keeping things to yourself, because people don't know how much you're not telling them until they're the ones whose personal information you're not telling, and "I know something you don't knoooooow" is just not charming. Still: I do, and you're glad.

I picked up Throne of Jade while I was out shopping for presents for other people, because I have the self-discipline of your average cat, apparently. I have already started reading it. I am not even sorry.

I'm not one of those people who does well with guilt.

Comments

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Guilt is overrated. Books (in general) are not.

I am sorry to hear that things are happening to you which are sufficiently unfun that the mere act of hearing about them would be unfun for me, and I appreciate your restraint at not spreading the unpleasantness. May you feel better soon.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

>It was Carter Hall's they messed up: "Carter Hull Recovers the Puck."

Freudian hockey slip?

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Bobby, Brett, Carter... It's all rather logical.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It is a bad idea to play hockey in a slip. It is not like the fancy dress rugby games.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

True. Much too cold in a slip.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Not, however, too dark to read. Not in most slips. Even the black ones often have lace to let the light in.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

That's part of what makes it Freudian.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It is true that you don't often hear much good about Freud's save percentage, but he's a better glove man than the statistics would imply.

[jenett]

I am really trying not to pick up Throne of Jade yet, because I have things I need to do between now and Sunday and cannot afford the sleep loss.

The temptation to figure out when to get to Uncle Hugo's on Sunday is pretty high, though. (As opposed to, y'know, Monday.)

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

I've been far to busy since Minicon to finish HMD but from what I've read ToJ and TGP are must buys.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

If they were good presents, then you *totally* deserve a reward for being such a good person and getting such good presents for people. And if you got the book instead of getting actually buying presents for people, but merely looking, then you deserve the book because you had to do all that shopping and you didn't even find what you were looking for.

PS. You have miles more self-discipline than a cat. Cats don't even think about getting presents for someone, except sometimes when they're full, but it's a nice mouse and shouldn't go to waste.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

See, but me buying people presents is not self-discipline, because it's not something I would prefer to avoid but am making myself do anyway. I like buying people presents. Even when I proposed that we should get markgritter's mother two birthday presents and his father none because she has an Amazon list and he does not.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying you have much self-discipline. I'm just saying it's more than a cat. A cat would say, "but if I buy things for other, I won't have as much money for mice-that-rattle." Maybe a dog.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

But cats give their monkeys presents all the time! They even bat and bite them into comas or death first. "Look, monkey! Very fine mousie head! The rest of the mousie would have been way too much trouble for you, so I took care of it."

My dog gives me presents, too, though, like slimed chewed-upon rawhide bones. So it may be a draw on that front.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I often think of cat presents as more like the animal sacrifices of the greeks and romans, down to leaving the gods just the not-useful bits. Though with less respect involved. And i know of entirely too many people whose cats were trying to train them to catch their own mice by just injuring them a little...

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

My allergist told me to take half a decongestant tablet as needed, and for a while I didn't need it often.

Then came the tree pollen. And toothaches, which I realized after a while were an allergic symptom. So I started taking whole decongestant tabs twice a day. Which would be fine, except that they raise my blood pressure.

The first time I tried one of the commonest OTC decongestants, I got pleasantly high. But the effect wore off after about a week.

Hope your stomach (or whatever part of you has the problem) recovers soon!

[ckd]

There are, now and then, advantages to having my friendly local SF&F specialty store closed, namely that it gives me a reason to wait to buy books. Okay, there's only one advantage, and that's it. But still.

I hope that your not-fun goes away.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Boston really sucks, move here. I mean same winter but we gots Skeeters. Ah, what a country.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

When I lived in California and said I missed Minnesota, some people accused me of idealizing it. When I got to "mosquito bites, frozen toes, gravel and salt on the welcome mat" in the list of things I missed, many of those people were ready to concede that I perhaps did miss the real Minnesota after all.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I am restraining myself until Friday, when I get paid. Then I will go to the bookstore and drop way too much money on manga and Throne of Jade.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

With that title, it could have been worse.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

But if it had been worse, someone would almost certainly have checked it against the story. "Wait, is that what we're publishing nowadays?"

[mkille.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon.