The No News is No News Purgatory Thread, Vol. 7

I'm seeing a picture on the top of the page of a guy with a dolphin tattoo/image on his forehead. Stepping away from the computer now....

lwalker said:

*rubs Tas' boots*

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...Boy, did I ever eye'po that as something else.


Morning, purgs! Juggling projects (when am I not?) yet again; was planning to tweak the UF in prep for the Great SP Experiment, but I reread it and dear gods, it's horrible.

~*sigh*~

I can't decide if this is me having improved enough to fully grasp just how much I sucked before, or just me getting in my own way before I actually, y'know, do something. So, being familiar with this loop of the emocoaster, I'm going to wait a bit and reread it again before I decide if it needs to be totally rewritten.

Anywhar, how are you all?


Lily, wow. Er. ...Wow.

APM, hello and good luck!

sunna said:

...Boy, did I ever eye'po that as something else.

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Whatever trips your trigger.

Lily, yay on subbing! OMG on the dolphin guy, though it does remind me of an episode of "King of the Hill" when Hank gets some "lovin'" from a dolphin.

Also, yay to APM & LW!

Tas, I like magic boots.

My whole family gets flu shots. Little B and I have compromised respiratory systems, and it would be very dangerous if we were to get the flu. I started getting them when I was pregnant with my oldest. The only time I've had the flu was H1N1, which turned into pneumonia that kept me very sick for about six months. It was awful. I was 29 and seriously afraid I was going to die. In October, I wound up with walking pneumonia after a simple cold. I carry sanitizer and wipes in my bag and use them frequently. Yeah, I'm honestly a little OCD with it, but so far it's kept us from getting anything more serious than your usual kid sickies--strep throat, ear aches, etc.

Pretending I didn't read about the dolphin.

Sunna, I think you are putting barriers up for yourself because we are all so used to barriers and don't feel safe without them.

Only my second grader had the flu shot so far. She's probably most likely to pick it up, being in a large elementary school, but I wish my preschooler had a shot too. Guess wishes don't do us much good.

Blondchen said:

Okay. Gonna write today. Swear to dog. Right now. Gonna do this. Gonna make this...OOOOOO, SHINY THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!

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This

dystophil said:

I got cleared for graduation in both of my majors today, so as long as I don't screw up terribly this semester I might actually be a tad accomplished, graduating at the end of April.

I'm officially excited!

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WOOT!

Dolphin guy... and

New words last night. Still need to finish revision. And about 1,000,000 projects due at work. Joy.

I wish I could have convinced Mr. Sunna to get a shot. He's always on a plane or in a conference room, and I swear that man doesn't have to be sick 20 minutes before I have it.

Mrs. B, oy. I hope you stay healthy this season.

kellion92 said:

Sunna, I think you are putting barriers up for yourself because we are all so used to barriers and don't feel safe without them.

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I hope so, because damn. You know how sometimes you reread something you wrote and got sick of and stuffed in a mental circular file for a stretch, then came back to and were all holy shit, this is really pretty great, I can't believe I wrote this?

This was pretty much the exact opposite experience, but with more WTF.

*wince*

Pen name, Sunna? Let the market decide!

Hopeless Hackess, maybe?



...Oh, you know, I could have fun with that.

((((Sunna)))) We've all been there.

And ROFL on eye-po. Oops!

(((Mrs. B)))) I'm a bit phobic about germs, too.

Ahhhh. Chili in the crock pot, children playing happily, dishes done, house clean. I think I've earned some revision time. Nasty day. I needed to go to the store, but it's cold and raining, and I'm a little pissed because it's rain and not snow, so I have declared it pajama day, anyway.

So glad I woke up to dolphin smex.

sunna said:

Anywhar, how are you all?

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Sick again. JL gave me his cold.

Also, speaking of zombie projects, I started rereading The W!tch's Eye last night - well, rereading and editing - and awwwww. I've missed this book.

is it awful that i wonder about dolphin
foreplay?

i've heard mention of swimmers being gang
raped by dolphins. yes. i can't even. so dude
having love affair with goddess dolphin totally
plausible.

puglets, i'm not sure if i have a chance
in YA with this novel but i'm afeared of
adult as well. this is what i get for being
the line straddler that i am. *sighs*

critique meeting! getting feedback
on sequel to novel on sub. =)

cindy, fear doesn't override stubborn

sunna said:

This was pretty much the exact opposite experience, but with more WTF.

*wince*

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BUT this gives you the opportunity to make it an unholy manuscript of awesome!

xiaotien said:

puglets, i'm not sure if i have a chance
in YA with this novel but i'm afeared of
adult as well. this is what i get for being
the line straddler that i am. *sighs*

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You can totally be an adult writer. Remember? You started out that way!!!!

I'm going to go back through and rep, but a quick question for your veteran queriers: I just realized last night that I didn't include a synopsis for the agent whose guidelines require it (along with the query letter and sample pages). Did I just blow my shot on that one?

callalily61 said:

I am not making this up: There's a guy being interviewed on the radio right now who had hot mammal smex with a dolphin in te 1970s, before it became illegal in Florida. For nine months. He wrote a book about it (Wet Goddess--but it's a novel. Because some people in the story are still alive.) He's talking right now about how the dolphin initiated the relationship (his words). He's going into detail--as far as one can on the radio--about the mechanics of it. Including foreplay.

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I'm pretty sure my editor friend got one of her writers to interview this guy. I didn't read the article, but she had a lot of amazing dolphin sex puns on Twitter that week.

Blondchen said:

So glad I woke up to dolphin smex.

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It's better than the bug horror stories. I think.

First day of teaching, Purgies! I got a runner in my stockings, OF COURSE. Had to run to the drug store to buy new ones. I'm not that much of an absent-minded professor to wear ragged stockings. Yet.

calla - it still sounds intriguing and a review is a review

Dolphin sex. Righhhhttttt. I just hope they went out on a few dates first, or got her some fish.

Good luck with your fulls A.P.M!

Yay dyst, silly hat day!

I also completely read the rubbing of boots as something else

So I log on and encounter dolphin sex. Ah... purgatory.

Good luck with the fulls, everyone!

May, good luck with the teaching!

Had my oncologist check up this morning, and got the all-clear on another 6 months. Still have to brave the dermatologist next week, but I'll take it.

Ink- Yay on being healthy with the oncologist!