oh wow!
Life, though sometimes a little sad and/or frustrating, also gets better! Yay.
For personal reasons, I stepped down from the board of the Columbus International Film & Video Festival on Thursday. (That's the sad and/or frustrating part). But everything else is so copacetic, gang.
Got the house clean -- everything except for the kitchen floor. However, the bottle of biodegradable floor cleaner, the scrub brush, the bucket & mop, are all sitting out as if I might actually do it at any moment... So we shall see!
My yard is slowly but surely starting to look really -- I don't know? -- organized? Like a human being lives here instead of just a bunch of wild little animals. Yesterday, I managed to clean up the remaining damage done by Hurricane Ike which hit in, like, September. It was a little humbling. While gathering up the debris, I imagined all the eyes of the neighbors upon me, with all of them turning to each other and saying, "Finally! She's getting rid of that crap!" To which I silently cried out on my own behalf: But I was busy writing a novel and it was really, really hard to do!
Anyway. Things are looking up out there, but still a long way to go and, alas, a trip to Los Angeles will be coming right smack in the middle of it. But oh well! Onward!
Great potential news came from Paris regarding my writing but it is way too soon to post about it here. It is sufficient to say that the news made my entire week and now I must craft a short but sweet (& professional) note en francais and it is sorely testing my French-speaking skills! I'll keep you posted as things develop, gang.
I am hard at work on notes/research for the next project while I await feedback from my agent on the Valentino novel. As I was afraid might happen, I came in so late after my deadline, that she was only able to "begin" reading it when 6 other novels from potential new clients got in line ahead of me at a writers conference. But the early word is that she's loving it, so I'll just be patient and wait until her conference is over...
And speaking of Los Angeles... I have chosen that all-important book I will read on the plane! My long-time, though not-often-seen-anymore, friend, Joe Queenan has a memoir out now, Closing Time. It just came out, in fact. And it arrived in my wee bonny little mailbox yesterday. I regale you with it here, folks! And on that note, I wish you the bestest Saturday!! Wherever you are!
For personal reasons, I stepped down from the board of the Columbus International Film & Video Festival on Thursday. (That's the sad and/or frustrating part). But everything else is so copacetic, gang.
Got the house clean -- everything except for the kitchen floor. However, the bottle of biodegradable floor cleaner, the scrub brush, the bucket & mop, are all sitting out as if I might actually do it at any moment... So we shall see!
My yard is slowly but surely starting to look really -- I don't know? -- organized? Like a human being lives here instead of just a bunch of wild little animals. Yesterday, I managed to clean up the remaining damage done by Hurricane Ike which hit in, like, September. It was a little humbling. While gathering up the debris, I imagined all the eyes of the neighbors upon me, with all of them turning to each other and saying, "Finally! She's getting rid of that crap!" To which I silently cried out on my own behalf: But I was busy writing a novel and it was really, really hard to do!
Anyway. Things are looking up out there, but still a long way to go and, alas, a trip to Los Angeles will be coming right smack in the middle of it. But oh well! Onward!
Great potential news came from Paris regarding my writing but it is way too soon to post about it here. It is sufficient to say that the news made my entire week and now I must craft a short but sweet (& professional) note en francais and it is sorely testing my French-speaking skills! I'll keep you posted as things develop, gang.
I am hard at work on notes/research for the next project while I await feedback from my agent on the Valentino novel. As I was afraid might happen, I came in so late after my deadline, that she was only able to "begin" reading it when 6 other novels from potential new clients got in line ahead of me at a writers conference. But the early word is that she's loving it, so I'll just be patient and wait until her conference is over...
And speaking of Los Angeles... I have chosen that all-important book I will read on the plane! My long-time, though not-often-seen-anymore, friend, Joe Queenan has a memoir out now, Closing Time. It just came out, in fact. And it arrived in my wee bonny little mailbox yesterday. I regale you with it here, folks! And on that note, I wish you the bestest Saturday!! Wherever you are!
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