Hi all!
Sorry I've been so absent lately (even more so that usual) deadlines and day job and life and the conferenceI've been helping to plan have kept me crazy busy.
But the conference is this weekend, and things are calming down.
Maryn, who was pleasant to deal with
Maryn, I love your sign off lines. They often make me smile, if not laugh. Just thought I'd let you know I enjoy them.
And yay for Kid Two! For the job, in a good environment, and for a good check in that shows her doing well. Wonderful!
Lily -- good luck with the MWA chapter. Sounds logical to have one up your way. We struggle here with our SCBWI chapter being statewide, because all of the big events happen in the south central/south eastern part of the state. But we've been trying to do smaller events around the state to better include members who live in other parts.
Lily 2 -- Ugh on the former coworker/selfpub/now I want an agent thing. It's becoming increasingly difficult to help newbies to the business side of publishing understand that patience is key.
Tas -- a good, trusted repair shop is gold. And I love the Ninja Turtle scarf! My nephew would go crazy for that.
The Joys of Writing: I get two chapters after my obligatory "research the suspects" chapter and realized I'd completely skipped a suspect.
*tabs up several pages* *adds more paragraphs*
Yup. I've spent most of the last 6-7 weeks revising the first 70 pages of novel two -- two steps forward, three steps back...
Caleb -- good luck with the family drama, and hope all works out! Sounds like it would be good for you and M and for your grandmother.
I always prefer an audience for my loin girdling
Snerk.
Dys -- you sound crazy busy, too. So here's me waving hello as we pass through the thread.
Oh we are terrible terrible people... Well I'm not. I'm a perfect angel,
maybe a fallen one that bounced around hell for a while before crawling out through a brothel but that's still an angel, but that Maryn whew. She is just dirty all the time and Lily... She's actually a secret dominatrix. And tas... Well tas is evil you have to watch for her. How about you come stand over by me 
Well, I'll never trust Caleb with one of my secrets again, that's for sure.
Just trying to get you more business.
Caleb, you've got that backwards. The book I just sold is a FemDomme. It's Lily who's dirty all the time--except when she's cooking, I hope.
I lurk and read in this place multiple times a day, and so I forget sometimes that it's been days since I actually SAID something.
So...hi!
Not dead yet.
I do this, too. Not every day, but I probably check the thread several times a week, and start to reply, and then get interrupted and forget to finish.
I got an 89% on a midterm and now I feel distractedly crabby. Going in tomorrow to speak with the professor and see where I need to improve. Grr. Argh.
It's great you want to do better, but an 89% isn't bad, right?
Fuchsia - Skaing figure eights sounds like it could almost be meditative. Nice.
Conference this weekend -- so the hard part of the planning is done. Then an author friend staying a few days with us next week. And then back to sunk in the revision on deadline. I'm just racing to get everything done before surgery in December, which hopefully won't be that bad, but my reward will be a few days of recooperative Netflix and DVR watching once it's over.
Hugs and hig fives as needed!
~suki
wahoo for Kid Two!
