Good things this week, too

[pjthompson]

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.

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[handworn.livejournal.com]

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

Dear God, I'm considering doing it. Words fail me. Which is probably not a good sign.

Ever read Barbara Hambly's Traveling With The Dead? She has a couple good sonnets written by one of the vampires.

[pjthompson]

I'm considering it, too.

Ever read Barbara Hambly's Traveling With The Dead? She has a couple good sonnets written by one of the vampires.

I love those books. I desperately need room in my bookshelves and have been thinking of donating them somewhere, but it's hard to let them go.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

I find her stuff very rereadable, so no way I'm getting rid of mine. She has mentioned on BarbaraHambly.com that she has a proposal out to do another, which she hasn't heard about yet.

Well, I wrote a damn sonnet. Likely not a good one, but I wrote it.

[pjthompson]

hat she has a proposal out to do another, which she hasn't heard about yet.

That's good to know. For a long time it was, "I'll have to write another one of those some day." I hope she sells it.

[pjthompson]

Well, I wrote a damn sonnet. Likely not a good one, but I wrote it.

Oh, and good! Now you have a few weeks to refine it. Getting it on the page is the most important part.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'll use my copious free time for that. You know about that. ;-D

It's about soup, so it's not as though it need to be Deep and Meaningful.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Sweet deal on the possible raise at work. It's definitely always a good thing to know when people think highly of you... they's got a good worker, they do.

[pjthompson]

Definitely good to know.