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ksmithI keep forgetting that Wiscon is in a couple of weeks. I heard from the folks organizing the readings--my slot is on Saturday morning. We'll be limited to 6-7 pages, given the timing. I'd like to read a section of the new J5 Chapter 1, with my idomeni POV. Pick a nice, tense section at the end. Haven't yet written the chapter, but I know how it ends. My books in microcosm.
I also have three other panels, including one where my books are mentioned in the panel description. This is a first. I'm still not sure whether it's a good idea for me to sit on that panel or not, but Syne Mitchell will be on it as well and her books are also in the description. Might give us a chance to explain why we think the description isn't quite 'on'. Our female protags are compared to Gibson's Case, and while I haven't read NEUROMANCER, folks who have told me that Jani and Case are not alike.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing Madison, and staying at the Concourse, and visiting the shops and restaurants I visit each year.
In day job news, I found out that a few of us will be moving to a new office area. On April 1st, a layout of this new area was posted, along with a note telling us to pick our new cubes NOW or they would be chosen for us the following week. So I picked a cube, as did a few other folks. A few hours later, we found an Apirl Fool! sign stuck to the board. Funny funny hah hah.
Now it looks like I'll be moving after all. I doubt I'll get the cube I picked, though, a corner with views out two windows.
House obsession has me by the throat. I've applied for a home equity line of credit--if I get it, I'd like to put an addition on the house. A master bedroom with full bath, and a mudroom. With two big dogs, a mudroom is a necessity. The hardwood floors took a beating this past winter.
I also have three other panels, including one where my books are mentioned in the panel description. This is a first. I'm still not sure whether it's a good idea for me to sit on that panel or not, but Syne Mitchell will be on it as well and her books are also in the description. Might give us a chance to explain why we think the description isn't quite 'on'. Our female protags are compared to Gibson's Case, and while I haven't read NEUROMANCER, folks who have told me that Jani and Case are not alike.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing Madison, and staying at the Concourse, and visiting the shops and restaurants I visit each year.
In day job news, I found out that a few of us will be moving to a new office area. On April 1st, a layout of this new area was posted, along with a note telling us to pick our new cubes NOW or they would be chosen for us the following week. So I picked a cube, as did a few other folks. A few hours later, we found an Apirl Fool! sign stuck to the board. Funny funny hah hah.
Now it looks like I'll be moving after all. I doubt I'll get the cube I picked, though, a corner with views out two windows.
House obsession has me by the throat. I've applied for a home equity line of credit--if I get it, I'd like to put an addition on the house. A master bedroom with full bath, and a mudroom. With two big dogs, a mudroom is a necessity. The hardwood floors took a beating this past winter.
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Date: 2004-05-07 09:55 am (UTC)I had my eye on one of those nice storage benches with the coat hooks lining the top. Don't know if there will be room for a closet in the space I'll have. So far, the dogs have never jumped on the coatrack currently in the dining room, so odds are they'll pretty much leave alone any coats in the mudroom.
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Date: 2004-05-07 11:35 am (UTC)We set up the room with the idea that even though the dogs currently in residence were perfectly trustworthy, the time would come when they had moved onto the big doghouse in the sky, and new, untrained puppies would take their place. This proved to be the case. Terrie, Alex and Sara, the dogs in place when the addition was completed, could be trusted totally. Vera, a.k.a. VERA YOU IDIOT!!!!, has even figured out how to bounce open the closet door if it is not latched shut. We also had to take the table out of the room because she decided she could get a better view out the windows by standing on the table. So she did.
She was a year old in March. She's seems to be calming down a little. Sorta. Mostly. At least, that's what we keep telling ourselves.