05.07.07
In lieu of actual content, shiny!
The book events in Boston and New York were fantastic — standing room only in both places. I came home and promptly came down with a really gross cold, which went through several aggravating stages of which the penultimate was laryingitis. Now that I am mostly better, I am posting just to let you all know that in the words of the redoubtable Granny Weatherwax, I aten’t dead.
Stuff is percolating, and I’m doing Things here and there. Reflection’s Edge has published my story “Copenhagen or Anywhere.” I cleaned my bedroom pretty vigorously, and have big plans to make my way through the accumulata of the guest room closet sometime soon. The little thingum that goes beep beep beep hey idiot you left your lights on beep beep in my car has gone kaput, and since I am in danger of getting to be on a first-name basis with the AAA jump-start truck guy, I have to find a time to take the car in to the dealer and get whatever the little thingum is that’s broken fixed. I’m going to bake a cake today, because it seems like that would be a good thing to do. I am having a very contentious relationship with my hair lately, and therefore have been wrapping my head up in scarves and such so that I do not have to see my hair. Stuff like that.
Along the way I have been making some jewelry. This is called “The Spirit of Fatima Rules the Earth,” and it’s made mostly of Czech furnace glass, with some jade and silver.
This one is called “The Mermaid Oracle” and is made of jade, silver, peridot, pearls, glass, and a pendant that I did not make but that is made of glass, antique postcard, silver, and mirror.
