Five Random Things Make a Weekend

1) On the sum, I think I spent about half of this weekend shoveling e-mail out of my inbox: Ideomancer e-mail, support e-mail, personal crits-I-owe e-mail (and there are still crits I owe, let me tell you), auction e-mail, domain renewal e-mail, endless e-mail. This is...kind of frightening. I am hoping this is just magazine startup/seasonal, because I do not plan on spending every Saturday in my pajamas in front of my computer shoveling out e-mail and every Sunday doing house chores.

2) Maybe all that shoveling's worthwhile, because we (and I) got a shoutout on Tor.com this weekend. Go go mighty Ideots!

3) Two good nights' sleep help get rid of that racking, painful chest cough that wouldn't go away. Memo: sleep more. Abuse your body less. You need it, where you're going.

4) As tanaise said, frogging means not only never having to say you're sorry, but that nobody will know you even dropped the stitch and screwed everything up for two rounds.

5) I need to decide if I'm actually going to Wiscon this year. On the one hand, I've gone twice and noted a distressing lack of Actually Doing Shit which I'm not sure is worth spending $800 on. On the other hand, my friends will probably get mad at me if I don't, and you know, I could always be a little more proactive and Do Shit myself.

Thoughts?

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And a sale.

Announcements appear to be happening, so I will announce too:

"Six", which some of you will know as a story about gardening, roof-sheep, and the apocalypse, will appear in Clockwork Phoenix 2.

Since the other acceptances I've seen announced on the friendslist include swan_tower and maryrobinette (ETA: and experimeditor, ann_leckie, and handful_ofdust), consider me composed of chuffed with a side of pleased and some yay! to go.

Oh, also?

Dear People Who Steal the Laptops of Writers:

If you ever cross my path, I will peel your larynx out from the bottom up with my bare goddamned hands.

Kisses,

Leah