Temperatures reached almost 65 here in the Metro DC areas today. Just about all of the remaining snow has melted. When I got home from work, I didn’t even need a jacket. It smelled like spring out.
I had set aside an hour to write and an hour to read and review fiction in the mags, but skipped it tonight because I was overly eager to finish The Passage of the Light (which I did) and start on It’s Superman! (which I have). I feel kind of bad about this, but it’s…
I got home from work this afternoon and had a package from Amazon that contained the book I ordered over the weekend, It’s Superman: A Novel by Tom De Haven. I’m very excited about reading this book, perhaps because I’m a fan of the superman lore. It’s a nice thick book, 400+ pages long, probably…
So I had this dream last night that I was committed to an asylum (why anyone should do such a thing is beyond me). As it turned out, the institute into which I was committed was a Walmart. I spent the entire dream wondering if I was crazy and also scampering on my hands and…
In case any non-writers out there have ever wondered what a rejection slip looks like, here is a link to the best rejection slip I ever received (from Asimov’s last April 2005): See the rejection slip
For the third night in a row, I have stuck to my new writing regimen, and it is working out well. I had another good session tonight. I’d scheduled two hours (between 7 – 9 PM) to write and hoped to get through two more sections of “The Graveyard Shift”. I got through both sections,…
So it’s lunchtime and I’m reading Herovit’s World (wholely contained within The Passage of the Light and I cannot for the life of me stop laughing. Outloudly, vocally, loudly. It just keeps coming with each paragraph. This has to be one of the funniest books ever written, and yet I hesitate to quote passages because…
So you may have notice I have (temporarily?) changed the style of this blog. Up until now, I’d been using the Bloggish style (S2) which I really liked. However, when I came in this morning, I noticed that the layering was not working properly. I assume that someone edited the underlying style and screwed something…
It was two years ago today (Valentine’s Day) that I gave up caffine and I have been caffine free ever since.
I did 40 pushups tonight and for some reason, it was far easier than the last time I actually hit 40. Last night, for instancfe, I was only able to do 35 and the night before, I did 37 or 38 and was wiped out. But just now, I did 40 pushups quick (and for…