Tuesday, July 27, 2004
This morning, I know what happens when one mixes two brands of sake with two different pharmeceuticals. It's not so bad as I expected, but I am a little...mushy.
Jennifer's celebratory dinner went off quite pleasantly. She got a little drunk, which is unusual for her, and the last I saw of her last night (last, last...grrrrr), she was managing a weird sort of dance/stumble down the hall towards her bedroom, singing "It's over. It's over. It's over." Here are a couple of photos from last night (Blog people need to click here to see them at the LJ version of the blog).
There is no picture of Byron, because he's a shy boy.
I've got so much to do today my head is spinning. Five important e-mails. The final read-through on "The Pearl Diver" (no, I didn't do it yesterday). Monster doodles that have to be drawn for completed eBay auctions. And we're supposed to go to my mother's in Birmingham tomorrow, so I need to get ready for that, too.
The new contacts arrived yesterday. Spooky and I managed to score two pairs off one eye-exam, so I feel we got the upper hand on the Eyeball Nazis after all. And there's good news, especially for those who will be attending my September 5th reading at Dragon*Con. I can actually see through these lenses! It has something to do with them having a wider clear aperture at the center of all that black.
We got an e-mail from Spooky's dad yesterday. He's an anthropologist at the University of Rhode Island, specializing in fisheries, and he's just arrived in Vietnam (he's spent a great deal of time doing research in southeast Asia and Malaysia). Apparently, he had a very harrowing motorbike ride through the streets of Hanoi yesterday.
Thanks to Poppy for the kind words about The Dry Salvages in her blog yesterday. I was very pleased with her assessment of the novella as a "pure-D ripping good space yarn."
Lastly, please check out the current eBay auctions. We're going to try to get more stuff up this week, including hardbacks of Waycross and Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold. Every "buy it now" purchase earns one monster doodle!
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