Week of October 24-30
Oct. 30th, 2004 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaJust the two rejections this week, and one of them was from a market I'd given up on last week. I haven't sent the rejected book back out yet: need to get to one of those Children's Writer Market books, haven't had the time or, more accurately, the energy.
Back hasn't gone out this badly in a goodly while. I'm not entirely in a holding pattern until I get to the chiropractor's, but I'm certainly spending more time resting than I usually do, and more time away from the computer. It's useful to have a printout of Thermionic Night to be working on, so that getting away from the computer doesn't mean being a big ol' slacker. At least not every time.
There is a character called Malykorne in Moonwise, and it made me remember that I miss![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alecaustin, who should win a magical no-purchase-necessary lottery and come visit us. (He's got a character name in one of his books that sounds similar.) Some of the rest of you all should arrange for the same: magical no-purchase-necessary lottery. See to it.
I am not dressing up as anything but a Mrissa for Halloween. If I had to dress up as something, I would probably dress up as a dealer's room at a con. I would wear a geeky T-shirt and a ton of jewelry and put my little stuffed dragon on my shoulder and cart around a stack of books. But now that I've said it, I don't have to do it.
This thought came about because I was bemoaning the fact that I wouldn't see Heathah's kids' costumes or the costumesmnfiddledragon has been talking about for the kids at her house. (So take pictures, you people!) timprov said we could go see them, and I said by the time the kids were ready, we'd have dd_b and lydy and pameladean over for dinner (and this is a good thing, having them for dinner, and was deliberate [because how do you accidentally have people over for dinner and know about it in advance?], and we probably wouldn't have crashed in on people's houses even if they'd said they couldn't come). T said, "We could take them with! We could all go as a...what's the collective noun for fen?" I said, "Con." He's not sure it's a con of fen. He thinks it might be a futurism of fen. But in any case, we aren't going anywhere as anything, but if we were going as a con, I would be sorely tempted to go as the dealer's room.
Geek much, Mris? No, not hardly....
Right then. Away from the computer. After one more e-mail.
Back hasn't gone out this badly in a goodly while. I'm not entirely in a holding pattern until I get to the chiropractor's, but I'm certainly spending more time resting than I usually do, and more time away from the computer. It's useful to have a printout of Thermionic Night to be working on, so that getting away from the computer doesn't mean being a big ol' slacker. At least not every time.
There is a character called Malykorne in Moonwise, and it made me remember that I miss
alecaustin, who should win a magical no-purchase-necessary lottery and come visit us. (He's got a character name in one of his books that sounds similar.) Some of the rest of you all should arrange for the same: magical no-purchase-necessary lottery. See to it.I am not dressing up as anything but a Mrissa for Halloween. If I had to dress up as something, I would probably dress up as a dealer's room at a con. I would wear a geeky T-shirt and a ton of jewelry and put my little stuffed dragon on my shoulder and cart around a stack of books. But now that I've said it, I don't have to do it.
This thought came about because I was bemoaning the fact that I wouldn't see Heathah's kids' costumes or the costumes
mnfiddledragon has been talking about for the kids at her house. (So take pictures, you people!) timprov said we could go see them, and I said by the time the kids were ready, we'd have dd_b and lydy and pameladean over for dinner (and this is a good thing, having them for dinner, and was deliberate [because how do you accidentally have people over for dinner and know about it in advance?], and we probably wouldn't have crashed in on people's houses even if they'd said they couldn't come). T said, "We could take them with! We could all go as a...what's the collective noun for fen?" I said, "Con." He's not sure it's a con of fen. He thinks it might be a futurism of fen. But in any case, we aren't going anywhere as anything, but if we were going as a con, I would be sorely tempted to go as the dealer's room.Geek much, Mris? No, not hardly....
Right then. Away from the computer. After one more e-mail.
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Date: 2004-10-30 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-30 06:48 pm (UTC)*ahem*
You guys and the Blaisdell group are welcome to swing by and stare at Roo's costume, possibly even with Roo in it.
Or there is always another time. :) I mean, I didn't buy this bear outfit so he couldn't enjoy it.
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Date: 2004-10-31 12:28 pm (UTC)A con of fen sounds apt. And hilarious. And at least I understand where a zeal and a con are from... whereas, I still scratch my head over a clowder of cats. A clowder?