Good
gods, ya’ll, I’ve been traveling so much I’ve barely had time to keep up on
work, much less update about what I’ve been doing!
I spent
this past weekend in Oregon at another workshop (this one business-oriented
rather that writing-oriented). I swear, as soon as we hit Lincoln City, all I
could think was “But I wanna stay the whole week and write!” but alas, no. The
workshop was intense but hugely helpful and informative, and it was as always
fabby to reconnect with old friends (there were five of us from the first
Master Class in March 2002) and meet new OWN writers (there were several folks
for whom this was their first OWN workshop).
Back in
Portland, I spent Sunday night with friends, and now I’m on the plane home.
Ken’s picking me up and we’re going to buy me a new motorcycle helmet to match
his new one—both with Bluetooth so we can talk to each other without plugging
in!—and I may have time to get a new tattoo (a motorcycle helmet and a tattoo
in the same day would make me feel entirely badass), and then I’m going be on a
radio show talking about fantasy and writing and fandom and generally being a
geek. A badass geek, that’s me.
Then
we’re home for 2.5 days, which will include two bootcamp workouts, one cat to
the vet, one dentist appt, and as much work as I can cram in, before we hop on
the bike and head for AZ and NM. AZ is a Styx show (110! which doesn’t have as
special a ring as 100, but it’s one-tenth of the way to my second 100,
right?!), and in NM is our dear friend Vicki-Marie, who lives in Paris but is
visiting a friend in Albuquerque. Also in NM is my friend/fellow writer Pati Nagle, who is also a tea aficionado (one of the many things we have in common),
so she’s making reservations for all of us at a primo tea shop in the area.
And then
we’ll ride home and I’ll try not to collapse because what I’ll really need to
do is writewritewrite! (And uploaduploadupload! more stories, and readreadread!
more anthologies for the Short Story Workshop in June, and designdesigndesign!
my first POD novel, and possible editeditedit! a copyediting job, and…!)
But right
now I have to turn off the computer in preparation for our descent, where my
beloved awaits me!
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Update,
many, many hours later:
Did ya’ll
listen to me on The Geek Agenda? If not, never fear! It will be rebroadcast and
podcasted. Hopefully I didn’t sound too dorky. If I did, don’t tell me.
Personally, I had a blast, and I hope I get to do it again!
I did
stop at Sunset Strip Tattoo to discuss my tattoo, but didn’t have time to do it
before the show. I decided towards the end of dinner (after the show) that I
was just too tired. It was really the fiddly pre-tattoo bits of making the
transfer and making sure it was where I wanted it, etc., that I didn’t have the
energy I for. If it was crooked, I probably would have still said “Fine! Just do it!” and that would have a been a
bad thing. So. Back to Hollywood at a later (but hopefully not too later) date
for that.
Now,
after several nights with not nearly enough sleep, I’m off to snuggle with my
beloved and my kittays. Because tomorrow…see above re: writewritewrite! etc.
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