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Good Things
In reverse order of importance:
1. It’s a 26th. You know, we celebrate 3rds and 26ths*. I acknowledge this is only a modest good thing, because, after all, we have 24 of them a year, and only two of them are important. But a Good Thing is still a Good Thing.
2. I got through a perfect ‘single’ ringing Stedman at bell practise tonight. At least I now believe I am eventually going to be able to ring touches, and am not forever damned to plain courses. But tonight’s particular victory would have been more impressive if I hadn’t then gone to pieces afterward.** This is a not uncommon reaction to beginning finally to clamber through Stedman calls. Stedman is a tricky and volatile method anyway and liable to explode at any moment, and the shock of having done your ‘call’ correctly may last a dangerous and discountenancing while afterward.
3. Okay, listen up, people. This is the NEWS you have been waiting for.*** Robin McKinley is having a London bookshop signing on Thursday, the 6th of November, hosted by Murder One
http://www.murderone.co.uk/acatalog/Shop1.html
at 6 pm,† followed by an informal Q&A. More or less.
This has been in the process of being set up for the last little while but I have kept waiting for it to fall through: I sell three copies and die in this country, etc. What bookstore would want to invite those odds? And Murder One doesn’t even carry SF&F any more††–I knew it in an earlier era, when it did–but I’m told that the Q&A will be addressing their Romance Book Club. Eeep. I don’t really see myself as inheriting the mantle of Georgette Heyer†††, but if they show up and buy books, I’m not complaining.‡
And if any of you wanted to come that would be especially pleasing.‡‡
4. A brand new pair of Converse All Stars arrived in the post today!!!‡‡‡
5. Now this is the really important one. I had my piano lesson today, as usual, and I went in there whimpering about wasting time having stomach flu. But I had spent some of my sitting-up moments in front of the piano this week nonetheless, and produced two new short Things, one of them rather longer and more nearly finished than the other one. Oisin makes me play my own freaking pieces myself first but we don’t actually hear how they sound–which is to say if what I’ve written is what I think I’m hearing in my head–till he plays them§ which unfortunately is still somewhat dependent on his being able to read what I’ve written. §§
Anyway, we’d been dubbing around with the longer, more finished piece for a while, and Oisin finally turned to me and said, When you get this to the point you’re happy with it, and you’ve put it in Finale so you can produce a nice clean readable copy, I would like one.
My piano teacher wants a copy of something I’ve written. And, you know, finished and everything. He wants a copy of the piece as a piece. Squee.
* * *
* We seem to be celebrating with toast, soup, and an unexpectedly nasty merlot, but it’s the principle that matters.
** Niall, who was standing out, rushed over and deftly extracted me from my imbroglio. After we’d got to the end and stood our bells, and I said thank you, he said, not at all, that he’d missed the single. –Yes, but you get to miss things when you’re sitting out.
*** Well, a few of you have been waiting for.
† I think. If they change it I’ll let you know. But the date’s fixed–or anyway it’s totally out of my control. Allow me to insert the fervent plea here that no one write and say, oh can’t you please make it some other day? I could come any other day, but I’m receiving my Pulitzer/taking delivery of my custom-made Harley Davidson on the 6th. It is completely out of my hands.
†† They have said they’ll advertise at Forbidden Planet too.
††† Although anyone who wants to discuss how handsome and romantic Con is will be instantly killed. I’m just warning you.
‡ Quite the contrary, I will weep tears of joy.
‡‡ Or if any of you are members of the Murder One Romance Book Club, it would be a kindness if you could reassure me that SUNSHINE isn’t going to come as a very rude shock to the Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell readers. Or for that matter Kathy Lette and Catherine Fox readers. I don’t think even Kathy Lette gets into vampires. But I could be wrong.
‡‡‡ I have my priorities perfectly in order. I have no idea whether the 6th of November at Murder One is going to be a disaster or not, and even perfect Stedman singles are evanescent.^ With Converse All Stars you know what you’ve got. You’ve got a pair of shoes.^^
^ But then so is going to pieces afterward. Look on the bright side. The 6th of November will be evanescent too, for that matter, but the two (say) hours from 6 pm could be very, very, very long indeed.
^^ Note, Susan of Athens, this is all your fault. And I didn’t find the pegasus ones. Phooey.
§ This is of course why I now have Finale. Which I am still laboriously endeavouring to learn to use. Most of this week has been a wipe–learning new stuff is not on the agenda when you have stomach flu–and the worst of that is that I’ve now forgotten some of what I either did manage to learn or Oisin showed me last week: of course I took notes, but the notes read like: Chs rt ptr, hld dwn C, p entr: if n, 4. I have no idea. I would like to declare it isn’t my handwriting, but unfortunately I have rather distinctive handwriting.^ For my this week’s trick I would like to get an entire small Something fully loaded and unfurled: dynamics, the lot. Because my awful confession is . . . I bought a pair of teeny weeny but rather nice speakers. To plug into any computer with Finale on it.^^ So it really should sound the way . . . well, the way I’ve written it, as opposed to the way I want it to sound, which is probably something else, but I won’t know till I get there.
^ Way too distinctive. I would much rather it were legible.
^^ It comes allowing you to load it on two machines. Unfortunately, due to my curious living arrangements, I would like to load it on three. I haven’t tackled the Finale Admin about this yet. Hey, I only finally managed to get authorised today. You have a month from when you load the sucker for the first time to register with the company or at midnight on the thirty-first day it turns into a pretzel. Pretzeldom was looming in eight days, but I was tired of all the various little ways the website could say no, we don’t like you, and refuse to play. I’d even had a live human being at headquarters intercede for me and it STILL wouldn’t talk to me. So tonight I left a message on their phone machine–they have a phone machine–to this effect and then, just for laughs, gave it one more try . . . and it went through. I have till 9 am Monday morning to ring them again and say, disregard previous message. . . .
§§ Even more excellent reasons for Finale.
Oh hooray! Chocolate, champagne and roses are in order for YOU today. :)
(Despite the fact that I am HIDEOUSLY jealous of the UK fans at this point. Don’t waste this opportunity folks or us foreigners will curse you from a distance! LOL)
PS. I don’t suppose you have any more rain to send us?? Sunshine *again*. Lowest September rainfall on record blah blah. At least our grass is *green* but it won’t stay that way long… :(
Golly. Getting out the rain dance now. . . .
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Oh MAN are we jealous of the UK fans! Geez…I keep finding ways to get around the States to places where people/musicians and so forth that I’m fans of are appearing…But I don’t think I’m getting to London. >__<
And yes, CONGRATULATIONS on the success of your piece! :D
Hurray! for the perfect Stedman, Hurray!!!! for Oisin wanting your piece (most excellent compliment) and booooo! to nasty merlot!
Oh yes YAAY! for London signing!!! Do we need tickets? I’m coming, with or without bull terriers :)
I will ask about bull terriers. No, it’s not tickets. JUST PLEASE COME FILL UP THE PLACE. I read the story (on the web site) about the Sherilynn Kenyon signing and my heart sank. . . .
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JUST PLEASE COME FILL UP THE PLACE.
Don’t worry.
Rent-A-Crowd.
::evil grin::
Of course all UK fans could just insist on taking whole families with them :)
And bull terriers.
Rent a crowd, families, bull terriers . . . we’ll take what we can GET.
****** JUST PLEASE COME FILL UP THE PLACE.
I could do a publicity stunt for you, coming dressed as a cinnamon roll bigger than myself… but with my luck the bull terrier I brought dressed as a mini cinnamon roll would try to eat the big cinnamon roll, and then we would end up with less romance and more horror…
sounds too Klutz Klub for Komfort ;p
On the contrary it sounds GREAT. Someone ELSE can be the floor show. :)
Yay good things! Good news, all around.
And a London book signing! Oh man, how I wish I was on that side of the pond. I will tell all my Brit friends to go see you. *ENVIOUS SIGH*
Yay on both the bells and the piano! That’s awesome!
Thank you! :)
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††† Although anyone who wants to discuss how handsome and romantic Con is will be instantly killed. I’m just warning you.
Scary mushroom-skinned killer he may be, but when his name is Constantine, he’s Independently Wealthy, possessing Powerful Magical Knick-knacks, and alive during the equivalent of the American Revolution, vampire fans are bound to daydream about him, don’t you think (hey, even Sunshine indulged in those as a teenager, right?)? However, while your editorial control over reader’s fantasies may be limited, if I were in your place I’d probably use my Authorial Privilege to avoid discussing it at signings as well! AWK-ward….
;)
(Con’s nice and all, but I’m more of a Mel fan myself. He’s human.)
Readers’ fantasies are their own and that’s just fine. It’s when they get them OUT and wave them AROUND I get . . . testy. :)
Mel probably gets my personal award for Most Criminally Underused McKinley Character. I REALLY want to write more about him. (But as I keep saying IT’S NOT UP TO ME.)
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Mel ….. I REALLY want to write more about him.
You write it, I’ll buy it. ;)
Of course if I am honest I think I actually want to know more about Con. (He is *older* for a start so has had lots of time for adventures. ;) )
Maybe one day the Council will let you write about him/them/anyone else. :)
***Mel probably gets my personal award for Most Criminally Underused McKinley Character. ***
Too right!
††† Although anyone who wants to discuss how handsome and romantic Con is will be instantly killed. I’m just warning you.
Bwahahahahahahaha… You might have to bring along a big, dramatic sword for emphasis. It could be a prop for your reading! (and very memorable, to boot ;)
Grats on the noodle-y music goodness. Sounds more and more likely that we will be hearing a bit of it sometime, as well.
Double-grats and sighs of discontent about the book signing. I know that even if you come over to North America, the chances of you hitting up somewhere in Canada (and somewhere near ME in Canada) are practically nil. I’ll ask Southdowner for a blow-by-blow of the reading (and Constantine fan club decapitation ;) so I don’t feel so left out.
Readers’ fantasies are their own and that’s just fine. It’s when they get them OUT and wave them AROUND I get . . . testy. :)
This is probably another reason to resist film offers–the aftermath, at least for Annie Proulx, involves being bombarded with “ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites” from people who think the movie wasn’t graphic enough.
4. A brand new pair of Converse All Stars arrived in the post today!!!‡‡‡
So? What color??? One must keep one’s priorities in order…
I am all envy – I would love a pair of purple All Stars, but my feet are the wrong shape or wrong proportions or something, and every size I tried on was uncomfortable in one place or another.
I have preordered the new edition of Sunshine from Amazon; I had some gift money (very early birthday, the Mother in Law decided to do the entire family in one go), and I needed something to bring How to Wrap Five Eggs up to the free shipping minimum, and there we are. That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it.
It also means I will have an official collection of Editions of Sunshine. :-)
Oh good. :)
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Yes, but What Color Are The All Stars? Inquiring minds want to know!
( . . . I’m waiting for the other two pairs to show up . . . :))
“Robin McKinley is having a London bookshop signing on Thursday, the 6th of November, hosted by Murder One”
OK pure, unadulterated envy. Streaming out of me. And, in a particular way, AT MURDER ONE? That’s one of MY bookshops. In fact that is where, after years of looking for a new Robin McKinley I found Deerskin. I mourned when they gave up Science Fiction and Fantasy. I will be thinking of you with longing while stuck in another country.
“Or if any of you are members of the Murder One Romance Book Club, it would be a kindness if you could reassure me that SUNSHINE isn’t going to come as a very rude shock to the Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell readers.”
Well I’m not a member of any book club, but for years I received their Romance and SF&F catalogues. Have you looked at romance recently? You can’t move for the vampires and shapeshifters around. No, they will not be shocked. Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell readers would be shocked by ROMANCE READERS.
“^^ Note, Susan of Athens, this is all your fault. And I didn’t find the pegasus ones. Phooey.”
**smugly content at being at fault here** What a pity you didn’t find the Pegasus ones. (fakely solicitous) I will take a snapshot for you. They even have pony ones, too (rubbing salt in wounds).
On a completely different note, I hope that ssshunt’s operation went well. Candles and thoughts steadily burning and going her way.
Well, the Sookie Stackhouse fans won’t have any problems with Sunshine, that’s for sure; she’s the main character in a vampire mystery/romance series that HBO has adapted into a TV series they call True Blood.
In other book news, two good things at my local Books-a-Million today: the paperback of Dragonhaven is shelved in the SF & F section (very good!), and the store finally got its copies of Chalice in stock. So they didn’t totally lie about getting it, just about when they would get it. And today’s sales clerk thought I was cool for liking YA books and being a librarian, and was totally blown away when I told her I get paid to read comics. Which I do. So she redeemed my opinion of the store.
I’m so bogged down with stuff that I haven’t got but maybe 70 pages into my copy of Chalice. My hubby will be performing his first wedding tomorrow, and it’s out in Tallahassee, a two-hours’ drive away. And the groom’s aunt just died today – esophageal cancer, she’d been suffering for almost three years. The groom is one of our congregation members, the aunt was a former member who transferred to a different Lutheran congregation, and the family has split between the two congregations. Hubby has been counseling the younger members of the family as they’ve been preparing for the death AND the wedding and not knowing what they should feel. So I’ve had much more than my usual share of household stuff to do, on top of errands and picking up younger son from school and all that. Plus making a wedding gift, working with our church ladies to do a wedding gift, etc. Plus working on my own deadlines and such.
If I were to be in London, I would go to your signing. I hope lots of fans show up, and that you garner new fans.
Good golly. In sickness and in health. I’m a little more aware than I used to be of the birth/wedding/death cycle in a vicar’s life because of being a bell ringer. But it must be very hard to cope with all those humans in various kinds of extremity, for a LIVING.
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4. A brand new pair of Converse All Stars arrived in the post today!!!‡‡‡
Well, don’t leave us hanging–color? Description? :) I’d had no idea how much variety there was in the All-Star department til someone steered me to the custom-Converse site a year or so ago and I explored the vast array of available fabrics and styles… I’m still debating buying some myself just because they look so cool, even though they don’t fit my feet well and never have. :(
Wish I could be in London on Nov. 6, if only to hear you address the romance book club….
Why couldn’t the booksigning be in April/May when I WILL be in London. Drat! Drat! Drat! Sigh! (Throws self down on ground in despair, wailing, kicking and screaming) LOL.
Well, I hope the signing is standing room only. And I agree with Librarykat and Susan from Athens – I don’t think you’ll have any problem with the romance fans – I’m positive they slop over into other genres too.
And, since it IS the 26th, I hoist my champagne glass and drink to your success in music, in bell ringing, in footwear, and in book signing! Cheers!
Booksigning! Oh, I wish there wasn’t an ocean in the way…
YAY ROBIN!!!! What a wonderfully good-things-packed-day!
London is too far for me to come – I’ll be with you in spirit and hope that many are able to come in body as well.
And something else that will hopefully amuse & entertain:
a wiki Dr. Horrible!
http://rootclip.com/stories/doctor-frank/1/
Now with product placements!
††† Although anyone who wants to discuss how handsome and romantic Con is will be instantly killed. I’m just warning you.
HAHA, it’s true! Anyone who read the book would remember how you described Con as unsightly in the first part, and how he hurled Sunshine across the room just when they were about to have sex. What a hunk! :)
the Q&A will be addressing their Romance Book Club
The mind boggles.
In other news: CHALICE: I CAN HAS IT.
. . . OM NOM NOM *burp*
(Which is to say, I loved it. Thank you!)
Thank *you*!
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My immediate thought was – “okay, how can I get to London for November 6th with very little money?” My next thought was – “drat! I have classes on Thursday!” My third thought was – “maybe I could skip class to fly to London for a weekend…” I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to actually make it though… I do have some friends in England and I’ll be sure to let them know about it.
Also, your list of Good Things reminds me of a very vivid and somewhat convoluted dream I once had and the narrator of the dream explained that there is a rating system called Greatnesses and at any given point in time there are Forty-Seven Greatnesses – ie, in the dream my wedding was the Second Greatness, and the cake that Charismitaine and I had made the week before was the Seventeenth Greatness of it’s time. I thought it was a fabulous concept, and I just thought of it when I saw your list of Good Things.
Wow! Congrats on the piano piece!! Very exciting. Good luck with getting everything polished up and where you want it to be. And crossing fingers for Finale continuing to behave itself.
And I’m incredibly jealous of those who will be at the book signing. I hope it goes well. May it be a pleasant experience for you.
danceswithpahis
A book club sighning in London – oh woe! I leave the country too soon! How sad that Murder One no longer carries SF.
Finale sounds like something it would be fun to have, once mastered.Especially with a piano teacher asking for your compositions! Well done!
Many congratulations are in order: for the anniversary (and why merlot instead of the usual champagne, anyway?), the Stedman, and the successful piano piece. (And good luck with Finale; it sounds like they don’t provide you with a very user-friendly manual–what am I saying, they probably don’t give you a manual AT ALL.)
I’d love to come to your signing! :: deep sigh :: I’m sure the UK blogfolks will step up, lucky them, and not leave you to the whims of the romance readers. Regarding Bull Terriers–Southdowner’s Hazel has a copy of CHALICE, so they ought to let her in!
****With Converse All Stars you know what you’ve got. You’ve got a pair of shoes.****
Yes, very true. I bought a shearling vest–half-price sale, YAY–and it arrived today, and is the right size, and is now residing happily in a closet waiting for cold weather. This is very satisfactory. (You are thinking it should at least be *cool* in Minnesota at the end of September. You are right, but the weather is not being cooperative. It was 84 degrees today. Aaarrrgh!)
Finale’s user manual is the 1,000,000 cross referenced onscreen pages variety, each page more complex, impenetrable, and not what you’re looking for than the one before. Sigh.
84 degrees?!??! You should sue. . . .
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****Finale’s user manual is the 1,000,000 cross referenced onscreen pages variety****
Software publishers should be shot for doing this. If they gave you a print version the index would still be lousy, but at least you could flip through the pages. Grrump!
It cooled back down today, looked like we might get rain, but were disappointed. It will probably wait to rain until Sunday when I go to the OPERA.
6th November – Squee! I can come! I will try very hard not to do my usual totally-bashful-and-tongue-tied-in-face-of-famous-author thing. But if you do see a gibbering idiot in front of you shakily proffering a copy of Chalice (arrived this morning), that may well be me.
PS will also tell all my friends.
SIX!!!!!!!!
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Okay, excited squeaking over for now…
I will be requesting that day as either an early shift or a day off this very afternoon! (and I will see if I can inveigle any of my London based friends along as well.)
*bounces off to go and be hyper elsewhere….*
FIVE! Now *I’m* starting to get excited. Or hyperventilate. Hard to tell . . .
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Yay for London signing! I will definately be there. And I shall tell all my friends. And insist that they go too. Soooo cool:)
YAAAAAAY! Four!!!!!
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Stedman: Oh well done and hang in there! I know that feeling though I usually used to see it from the other way around: doing some solo, mind going blank, soldiering through bravely and *then* falling apart *in the easy bit.* This is one of the things about music I do not miss.
Signing: Jealousy makes me nasty, and you are a cow. :-P Never mind, when my book(s) finally make(s) the shelves and I am fat on the royalties, *I’ll* fly to *you.* Sigh. I hope it all goes well (including hellhound logistics et al) and the UK distributors finally get your books on the shelves over there. As to the romance thing, well I think Sunshine had two perfectly good romances going, even if the one could be all in her mind and the other in dire jeopardy about ten pages after you stopped writing. (This is one of the things that never fail to disappoint me by the way. I understand it, regarding story line, literary whatever and just plain running out of stamina. But why does it have to *end* frangdangleit?) You are welcome to flog me with wet noodles for this opinion, but that’s just how my mental image of Con trying to work out human communication turned out.
It may well be that “Romance” has become a term somewhat like “young adult.” It’s aimed at women, so it must be Romance, right? That’s all we’re interested in, aside from knitting and manicures. Chick Lit is marginally better, as in it acknowledges there may be something more to the plot than knitting and heavy breathing. Occasionally.
Composing: dancing rodents! I imagine that feels just awesome – but if your music is anything like your phrasing (pardon me) I can’t be surprised. You do graceful-and-ironic so well. Good luck with the software.
Signing: Jealousy makes me nasty, and you are a cow. :-
********** LOL! I *am* a cow, but this one is obscure. I’m a cow for having a London signing? Doesn’t that make Murder One a whole herd of cows?
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********** LOL! I *am* a cow, but this one is obscure. I’m a cow for having a London signing? Doesn’t that make Murder One a whole herd of cows?
Well. Yes, and yes. Because you write so well I’d love to meet you and do an expert demonstration of verbal-klutziness. Because you AND Murder One are not in my country, and I’m not going there. And because you are RUBBING IT IN :-)
*whiiiiiinnnnne*
LOL! Sorry!
I first discovered you in Murder One – a remaindered hardback copy of “Deerskin”. And so it went…
Will they have copies of Chalice on sale, or had I better order mine and hope it arrives in time?
We’re ARGUING about this. I say if they can’t PROMISE to have them, I’ll hump some on the train (expecting my publisher to provide).
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What’s the point of an author book-signing without their latest book?? huh?? I suppose they think they are focussing on Sunshine? Tell them Chalice is NOT for teens and you may get somewhere… they are probably just looking at the stinking listing that says 12+. :p to them!
DON’t get me started on the whole YA thing . . . CHALICE isn’t published in the UK, is the reason why its presence is in doubt. This would have to be the US ed.
“CHALICE isn’t published in the UK, is the reason why its presence is in doubt. This would have to be the US ed.”
Well Murder One carries a ton of US editions. Often both editions side by side if I remember right (I do). Gentle encouragement needed here.
First of all: congratulations – on everything! This day is more “like it”!
I’d been waiting for news on, and wondering about the booksigning – so yay! Not because I can come (sigh), but because this proves that There Is Still Justice In The World. A little bit, in any case. And don’t worry, you’ll be surrounded by friends!
And as for:
***CHALICE isn’t published in the UK, is the reason why its presence is in doubt. This would have to be the US ed.
I went to the Murder One website via the link you provided, and saw this:
“We stock ALL crime titles in print in both the UK and the USA as a matter of policy”
So at least they can’t have moral objections to US books – which is hopeful, I think.
No, but it’s more stress and trouble for them, and probably harder to return unsold.
Didn’t you used to live in California? Maybe someday a book signing here? The weather is lovely! ;) Good luck with the London signing!
Didn’t you used to live in California
********** Not since I was four. :)
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Alas!! Even when we WERE in England (says this American-expat-now-back-States’-side), we were in Manchester, not London. Missing England, though, after five years there (and only four months back in the land of no free healthcare).
Very, very envious! Wish I could be there, especially to see the romance book club’s take!
I saw the signing advertised last week when I was in Murder One and got enormously excited. I’ll definitely be making the trip into town to be there. The book club apparently debuts next month and the first book is another vampire one – so I don’t think there is anything to worry about on that front and they do still carry a little bit of SF&F.
YAAAAAAY. Okay, I think you make three . . .
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I FERVENTLY wish I lived in/near London.
Congrats on the Stedman,t he All Stars and the book signing.
**** (Despite the fact that I am HIDEOUSLY jealous of the UK fans at this point. Don’t waste this opportunity folks or us foreigners will curse you from a distance! LOL)*****
I second that. I wish I were going to be in the UK.
“The 6th of November will be evanescent too, for that matter, but the two (say) hours from 6 pm could be very, very, very long indeed. ”
No, they will pass in a flash! You’ll be so swarmed under by us 26 UK fans + ‘all Rabbit’s friends and relations’ that they’ll have to push us out of the door in a tangled and enthusiastic mass when closing time comes. :) Mind you, Ray has his ‘I don’t mind, dear, you go out and have a lovely time without me, don’t think of me all alone here, I’ll be alright, really’ look on because Someone said he should stay home!
I’m just slightly worried about Murder One trying prematurely to sweep away the carpet of rose petals and Cinnamon Roll crumbs we will have laid for you to walk across on your way into the shop…
LOL! Look, Ray is WELCOME if he WANTS to come. If it is the sort of exhibition that would amuse him. I just thought . . . well, never mind. Your choice!!!!!!
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“Ray is WELCOME if he WANTS to come.”
Oh good, thank you. :)
I’m going to suggest that he reads through six months of blog first, to prepare himself…
Hasn’t it been a lovely weekend? Hope you had the same and were feeling well enough to enjoy it. I finally got a section of one border sorted out that I’d been putting off, so I now feel a glow of virtue even if most of me is also creaking.
I’m going to suggest that he reads through six months of blog first, to prepare himself…
*********SIX MONTHS??!??? Aren’t you, you know, FOND of him??
Yes, I’ve got out in the garden and made serious inroads in the Autumn Tidy Up these last two afternoons!
Nov 6 *sigh*
Well my ‘Rebecca wants to go to London for a weekend to see the Tate Fund’ has been diverted into vet bills.
(Running to the lab in the basement. If I can only get this **** transporter to work then we can beam en mass to your signing.!!!:)
Rebecca
:)
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“My piano teacher wants a copy of something I’ve written. And, you know, finished and everything. He wants a copy of the piece as a piece. Squee.”
HOORAY!!! WOO-HOOO!! You go!! That’s wonderful! So…too much to ask for a copy for me? :-) You could include it with my klutz klub membership card! :-)
And, in other news, I’m flying out to Portland for a job interview this Wednesday!! Yay! Excitement! Nervousness! I usually pack really lightly, but I might be nervous enough to attempt to drag my entire wardrobe onto the plane…*must show restraint, must show restraint…*
Smiles,
Jeanne Marie
GOOD LUCK!!!!! Also candles! :)
I’m still hoping to POST one of my deathless musical masterpieces. Just give me a few more weeks on Finale [sweating . . . ]
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Such jolly good news, all in one lovely post.
Remember the wedding entry about a week ago? As I type, the dairy farmers down the road are marrying off their first son (from tents floored with straw in a really, really soggy pasture … as we have had 4 inches of rain in the last 24 hrs.) with a fireworks display … and from the aroma, barbecue.
Maybe one of your up-coming celebrations could include some “works” as well as the popping of a champagne cork. Bet the hellhounds would love it!
Oh, and I have a new chocolate cake recipe to pass on (once I find the pad where I wrote it down). It was from Lady Bird Johnson, and even the most cussed Republicans in the family declared it the best they’ve ever had.
Looking forward. :) And Lady Bird was ABOVE all those nasty politics. :)
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m going to Berlin that day and I can’t change the flights.
What rubbish luck. Well I hope it goes so well that you get to do another one.
Sob!
Kerri
An Australian in London.
I received my copy of Chalice yesterday and love it already. Thanks!
Thank you!
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Well, I can’t come to London for 6 pm on a Thursday, but I have blogged your reading and I’m trying to talk my unrelated twin into coming instead.