Up and Down
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shadowlightPhysical Exam last week: bp 122 over 82; wt 174 lbs; ht 5'11 and a half" (am I getting shorter still?) Doctor was actually a Nurse, suggested Prilosec for my stomach trouble, seemed unable to see past that to notice any other minor problems, which hopefully means all other problems really are that minor.
asked a girl (for your records, call her "Miss M") at work out, after days of prep. result: I'm "sweet" but she has a boyfriend. *sigh* my prep kept it from being awkward, but it still feels like being kicked in the chest. Almost asked another girl out a day later just to get back on the proverbial horse while I was still sore.
Let's not talk work. Someone I trusted got fired. Those I don't trust didn't.
Finally submitted poems to 'Breath & Shadow'. 3 days later, they write back, saying they got the poems, love them, will take all three, ... "meager payment" (their words. I'm okay about the size as long it's money coming to me instead of away) and business / legal niceties to follow when they can fit it into their publication queue, which might take 6 months. They like publishing authors from Maine but "seldom get submissions of such high quality". Like, dude. accepted in less than a week. wow. Now I've got to write more.
audioreading Dan Brown's _Angels & Demons_. 15 min in, he's already bashing the Catholics, and I can tolerate that, but... y'know, the guy can't write... unless he was going for a melodrama with less realism than a Spider-Man comic. kind of a cross between Herbworld and something I read in a workshopped novella by a housewife at the Writers' Anonymous meetings back in Milltown. I've got to write more. I'll bet a novel about an elven love goddess would sell.
going to visit the blind rebel scholar tommorrow. gone early.
asked a girl (for your records, call her "Miss M") at work out, after days of prep. result: I'm "sweet" but she has a boyfriend. *sigh* my prep kept it from being awkward, but it still feels like being kicked in the chest. Almost asked another girl out a day later just to get back on the proverbial horse while I was still sore.
Let's not talk work. Someone I trusted got fired. Those I don't trust didn't.
Finally submitted poems to 'Breath & Shadow'. 3 days later, they write back, saying they got the poems, love them, will take all three, ... "meager payment" (their words. I'm okay about the size as long it's money coming to me instead of away) and business / legal niceties to follow when they can fit it into their publication queue, which might take 6 months. They like publishing authors from Maine but "seldom get submissions of such high quality". Like, dude. accepted in less than a week. wow. Now I've got to write more.
audioreading Dan Brown's _Angels & Demons_. 15 min in, he's already bashing the Catholics, and I can tolerate that, but... y'know, the guy can't write... unless he was going for a melodrama with less realism than a Spider-Man comic. kind of a cross between Herbworld and something I read in a workshopped novella by a housewife at the Writers' Anonymous meetings back in Milltown. I've got to write more. I'll bet a novel about an elven love goddess would sell.
going to visit the blind rebel scholar tommorrow. gone early.
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on 2008-08-26 03:19 am (UTC)and yeah, I bet something about an elven love goddess would sell :)
(at CONvergence someone was asking Mercedes Lackey what to advise a friend who is frustrated that her reader group is complaining her writings don't close the bedroom door fast enough. Misty said "switch reader groups. because, really, if that is where her interest is as a writer..... there _is_ a market for what she's writing....")
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on 2008-08-28 02:29 am (UTC)Mercedes Lackey's nickname is Misty? (I would've read more about CONVergence, but it kept blowing my socks off and my feet got cold.)
I know goddesses like attention. Glory would like being famous again. I'd be aiming for something between the Principia Discordia and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, but if I overshot into the Dianetics / Crowley range, I shudder to think what inanimate object they'll turn me into in the afterlife. :)