Elizabeth Moon's Blog, page 110

From Twitter 12-22-2009

01:47:10: It's almost 2 am and someone boiled my eyeballs in vinegar. Well, it feels like it.
01:47:31: OTOH, maybe those two chapters are FINALLY done???
12:02:55: Two Inca doves are pottering about the feeding platform, casting occasional annoyed glances at my window. Guilting me.
12:04:14: So this morning so far I have worked on said chapters, answered a lot of mail, and am facing an afternoon of same, then to the city.
22:58:26: If you already have sinus migraine, driving 40+ miles on I-35...

From Twitter 12-21-2009

10:40:23: Recovering from yesterday: lots of singing and someone going bonkers during the 9 am service.
10:41:10: Alpha reader 1 thinks chapters aren't really fixed yet. :headdesk:
12:20:12: Behind. I am SO FAR BEHIND!! I am behind my behind. I can't see the taillights of where I should be. Waily, waily, waily, woe.
12:21:20: (note to self: Get over yourself, woman! One drama queen in the household is enough, and Mac the QH has grabbed that role.)
18:13:47: New post at

At Midwinter: solstice weirdness

Not your average garden gnome--take a look at the 80 acres blog image.

Then there's the viburnum blooming now...

Sunday Singing, with Adventures

The usual adventures were all generated by my being overtired already and headachy.  I needed to take more things to the city than usual:  my concert blacks, for the afternoon Messiah, and my choir robe, for church, and two sets of music--the folder for the church anthems and the Messiah score.   This required two tote bags, not just one, and so--in the early dawn, because I needed to leave at 7 am--I stuffed the bags and left my choir robe in its usual "home" post-laundry location. However.....

From Twitter 12-19-2009

22:40:50: Bed now. Tomorrow is two services plus Sing-Along Messiah. I am SO not ready for this.
22:41:23: Well, bed after bragging that two chapters are fixed. Again.

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From Twitter 12-18-2009

10:00:35: Wow. I have more than 100 followers!! (Is it hideous egotism to mention that? Others have lots more...)
10:02:04: Embossed return addresses on envelope flaps are elegant--but hard for aging eyes to read. Want a reply, make return address readable.
10:03:17: Turned on TV late last night for weather, caught Janis Ian special on PBS. Dunno if new or old...stayed up to watch/listen.
10:05:26: Today: bake bread, work on music, work on book, find and cut tree, clear space to put tree....

From Twitter 12-17-2009

09:39:28: It's raining. Last December I'd have been ecstatic at the sight. Now, not so. Can't haul rocks on wet ground.
11:51:00: New posts up at http://www.paksworld.com/blog/, mostly about the trials of late revisions and plotbombs.

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Holiday Music

I'm not happy with LJ's posting interface again, because the font size setting will not hold. As in, I set it to "medium" and start to type--and what I typed is small and the little box is empty again. It takes two or three tries to get the "medium" to last long enough to write a paragraph. If I back up for any reason, it's gone again. If I want to insert a link, it's gone again. And no, this isn't about holiday music yet, but there's a reason, and the trouble with the *!!* font size...

From Twitter 12-16-2009

09:00:29: Worked too late again--but found out why Ps didn't turn around and go home. Besides what's waiting at home.
09:01:28: Very cold Inca dove sitting on feeder all fluffed up, tail pointing down over the edge.
10:54:57: Next time around, I want to bioengineer my own body. Scary thought: Maybe I did this time and just did a lousy job.
10:56:34: Blast and damn the Senators destroying the public option and giving all profit to the insurance companies, not the people.

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From Twitter 12-15-2009

13:38:51: Another cold front blew through and today we have some sun. Yay!
13:59:43: Title tribulations. Need new title for old omnibus in new market. Need title for book I just turned in. Title-generator nonfunctional.
14:09:04: Why do some tweets to me show up here, and others only if I look at profile or @emoontx??? Didn't know that. Sorry, folks I "ignored."
16:15:38: Walk on the land--chilly and very windy, but worthwhile. Loud traffic noise blown on the wind, though.
17:47:59: No...