I walk a lot. 'Cause that's my most reliable and cheap mode of transport. So when Jim showed me the Google Pedometer, I of course started poking about wondering how far I walked running errands today and how many calories I burned, clickety-clicking my little route and putting in all my little side trips....

Help me....

Not going into details--because they are long and stupid--but today was the sort of day that makes me want to hide under the bunk and cry.  And when you consider what's under my bunk....

Metrics:  zip-o!

Happy Halloween you happy lunatics!
Hoping to see some of you guys at Hugo House's Halloween festivities tonight with cmpriest.  And I got a Happy Halloween present, myself: Underground will be coming out in hardbound.  W00t!


This is cross posted to my Wordpress blog "My Own Personal Grey".

Well, first off, I agreed a while back to do a werewolf short for an upcoming anthology. A Christmas anthology. A Christmas werewolf anthology. So... here I are on the hook for 8-10k words by Nov 20 and I was not having a good time of it.

So I harrassed my most werewolf-knowledgable friends, Caitlin Kittredge and later,cmpriest  and we kicked ideas until something stuck--well not immediately, but in a back-of the brain sort of Oh-That's-horrible sort of way, because we were driven from a perfectly reasonable coffee house by 9/11 spouters of the liberal stripe (as bad as spouters of the conservative stripe only a bit more Pinko and Green.) And as I was walking home wondering how to make something really dependent on the werewolf and Christmas elements (not just werewolf and incidentally Christmas or vice versa) I had an Idea. So I rushed home and wrote it up as a 3 para synopsis. Haven't gotten a 100% go-ahead yet, but I think it will--pardon the reindeer reference--fly.

So there, one madness.

And not long ago I allowed myself to be persuaded to attend the upcoming signing at University Bookstore for Laurell K. Hamilton. I've never met the woman and I started and stopped reading Anita Blake at Bloody Bones, but I figure since I get told I'm imitating her often enough I should probably give the woman a chance in person to show me what she's about. But ironically the very person (yes you, blue_succubus ) who persuaded me to go is dumping me so she can go drool on Bill Clinton. Boooo!

/Cue Count: "Two! Two madnesses!"

And because I am truly insane, I agreed to mentor a young writer. (As if I have anything to say.)

Then there's the matter of revisions and eventual copyedits, another novel to do, and a novella I agreed to deliver by April.

Madness, I tells ya! Madness!

But at least I get to go hang out with the cool kids on Halloween for Cherie's horror extravaganza at Hugo House. OK, it's not just Cherie's but... hell, I know what the important things are. Be there or be... a smashed pumpkin. 'Cause all the cool kidz r goin.

So... when I make a post, I can select the user pic, but I can't seem to select one when I make a reply to a comment.  erm... am I missing something?

About this LJ.  I've already got an established blog at Wordpress as well as an Amazon plog and a website to maintain.  Mostly, it seems my LJ friends just really really, really want me to have an LJ too.  So here it is... but what to do with it.  I like my Wordpress--the LJ is a poorer fit to my mind's bendy workings and I find the system.... strange.

Of course, it would help if my keyboard weren't sticky..... ;)