Good things this week, too

Yahoo is still eating my mail, but now I can not get it so much faster! And for $10 cheaper a month! The cable internet guy showed up an hour and a half early and the broadband was all hooked up by 2. Min only took an hour to crawl out from under the bed this time.

I've got a nice plump chicken roasting in the oven with fresh herbs from the garden under the skin, plus onions and garlic—and up it's wazoo, too. Smells divine.

Also, I had a good writing week and that slow-moving airship of a novel has finally made it's ponderous turn and will be heading north within a page or two.

You poet-y types might want to check out this contest run by lit agent Jenny Rappaport:

http://litsoup.blogspot.com/2007/04/lit-soups-birthday-contest.html

I was told at work that they're happy with the job I'm doing and I can probably expect a raise. Of course, I won't know until June if that prophecy has come to pass, but it's nice to know they don't think I suck.

And I'm reading a sensational book right now. I can hardly wait for things to settle down so I can get back to Kate, Curran, and Crest.

Works for me

Usually done to hurdy gurdy music.

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(taken from stillnotbored)

The Universe is wicked funny

So, in my novel, Shivery Bones, Persephone and Hades figure prominently. And I ain't exactly kind to Hades.

Anyway, I bought some small statues from an online artisan shop and they said, "Congratulations! You qualify for a free gift." I'm thinking, "refrigerator magnet," but never one to turn down a freebie I said yes.

The package arrives early last week and the freebie turns out to be quite a nice wall plaque of a man and woman in profile seated on thrones. Nothing to tell me who they are, so I looked them up on the site, and you've probably guessed by now who they are.

"I got my eye on you," says Hades. Not a god you really want to be cheesing off, so I'm going to be real nice to him from now on.