Elizabeth Moon's Blog, page 60

From Twitter 11-18-2010

10:13:07: RT @patinagle: RT @bookviewcafe: Today's Special from Katharine Eliska Kimbriel: Fires of Nuala - read it for free at http://www.bookvi ...
10:17:48: RT @NASA: Here's what spring looks like in Antarctica: The Antarctic Peninsula seen by our Terra satellite this week. http://go.usa.gov/Cok
10:49:05: RT @ezraklein: American health-care system more bureaucratic and rationing-friendly than anyone else's (with graphs!): http://wapo.st/anlaIQ
15:30:44: Beginning to deal with mail & email stacked up while sick.
21:05:00: RT @MarsRovers: Oppy "salutes" @NASA's Apollo 12 with new pix of two craters named for the historic spacecraft. Photos: http://bit.ly/c1eXCL
21:20:06: Turkey, check. Ham, check. Puff pastry sheets, check. Butter, check. Canned pumpkin, check. 7 day countdown has begun.
23:18:17: RT @TanyaHuff: Boosting the signal. http://www.epbot.com/2010/11/geek-girls-activate.html

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Creeping Towards Health

So today I made it all the way to the city (briefly) and home (gratefully) with brief forays into two grocery stores as part of the trip.   Still coughing, though less.  Each bout lasts a shorter time than a few days ago, but there's still enough to be exhausting and keep my throat sore.

It was a beautiful day--a norther blew in last night, then the wind stilled...and then it got cold when the sun went down.  Colder and colder.   The online forecast was for lows to 34F but the 10 pm news said it could get into the high '20s, at which point I panicked about the newly planted roses and made R- go put hay over them. 

Now to bed and hopefully to sleep the night away.  What's left of it.

From Twitter 11-17-2010

07:49:36: RT @lizcastro: RT @Drudge_Report: TSA Hit With Lawsuits As Revolt Explodes... http://drudge.tw/czRwcd
08:44:21: RT @KSmithSF: GOP's Top Tax Guy: Republicans Will Block Permanent Middle-Class Tax Cut | TPMDC http://ht.ly/3b8Mo
10:49:36: RT @KSmithSF: Bush tax cuts' effect on the deficit in one graph - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/11/the_bush_tax_cuts_ ...
10:56:38: Roses planted. Now we find out if we're capable of keeping them healthy. The plants themselves looked splendidly healthy on arrival.
11:43:52: R- took ancient copier out of guesthouse and pieces fell apart.
16:26:18: RT @Quotes4Writers: "If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work." Paddy Chaye ...
16:29:40: RT @TanyaHuff: I guest blog at Magical Words! NaNo. Housebuilding. Brick laying. Words... http://bit.ly/aTHRV7
16:35:57: Made it to grocery store today. Came home and lay down for an hour. Energy level not yet "there."
17:27:14: RT @patinagle: RT @bookviewcafe: Today's Special from Jay Caselberg: new chapter in Binary - read it for free at http://www.bookviewcafe.com
17:27:19: RT @patinagle: RT @bookviewcafe: Today's Special from Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff: A Princess of Passyunk - read it for free at http://www.b ...
17:27:25: RT @patinagle: RT @bookviewcafe: New blog series on the BVC blog starting 11/19: Simplifying Christmas - gift ideas. http://blog.bookv ...
19:20:46: RT @robinmckinley: Yep. RT @AdviceToWriters: Anne Lamott: "Turn off Twitter": http://bit.ly/b8X3l3

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From Twitter 11-16-2010

10:55:16: "Impossible" scene--adolescent's sudden trauma-caused maturation & regression both--just untangled--whew! #amwriting
10:56:39: Now on next scene, where fairly dense adult misinterprets adolescent's state of mind. Equally difficult. #amwriting
12:57:17: RT @NASA: "Earth As Art 3" - New collection of amazing/weird Earth images from the Landsat satellite, courtesy @USGS. http://go.usa.gov/Cvg
17:35:56: ROSES! Arrived at wrong address, have been retrieved, will be planted tomorrow morning.
18:25:35: Newly-elected right-wing Congressman wants HIS taxpayer-paid health care now--but not for anyone else: http://tinyurl.com/2a3jlhl

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An't Dead Yet

As the Twitter feed has shown, I've been sick for over a week.   I'm still not well, but I'm able to write fiction again (a good sign) though not at my usual rate yet. 

I can now sleep four hours at a time without waking up in coughing spasms.   I still have them, but less often.   And I can stay up for four hours at a time and actually semi-accomplish things, though walking around outside for ten minutes is exhausting.   I've been informed by a reliable witness that I'm showing all the crankiness of a recovering sickie, and hope this means I can progress to the non-cranky stage of wellness in another few hours.  

At least this time didn't progress to pneumonia, something I hope is due to the efficacy of the pneumonia immunization I had in August. 

For those who hate days upon days of nothing but Twitter copies--sorry.  I could manage reTweeting things, or writing 140 characters now and then, but not more than that, in addition to trying to work on the book.

The roses came today and will be planted tomorrow morning...and in a few years we may have big roses all over the new structure (we can't decide its proper name...it started as a bridge and now has a top designed to support climbing plants.)   The two we bought are supposed to have great fragrance.   R- built them raised beds (one on either side of the south end of the structure) and put in soil mixed with very very aged horse manure (i.e., not too hot.)  

Aside from that...it's work on the book and (when I can stagger to the grocery store) getting ready for Thanksgiving next week.

From Twitter 11-15-2010

07:10:09: RT @bookviewcafe: Book View Café Releases Judith Tarr's WRITING HORSES, The Fine Art of Getting It Right
http://ow.ly/39IuG
13:32:15: Several newish posts up at http://www.paksworld.com/blog/.
21:04:15: RT @marjoriemliu: I'm sort of in love with this picture. Isn't this every person's fantasy? Isn't this the reason we write/read sci-fi? ...
23:35:35: Robin Bailey reading from Zombies in Oz...http://robinbailey.livejournal.com/70281.html. I knew some of these people b4 they zombified.

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From Twitter 11-14-2010

01:19:39: RT @vondanmcintyre: Free serial of Nautilus (Starfarers Quartet #4) featured Sunday at Book View Cafe: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/ - eb ...
14:33:52: RT @robinmckinley: RT @AdviceToWriters: Quote of the Day: Writing is like sculpture, Elie Wiesel: http://www.advicetowriters.com/
18:17:43: RT @ColleenLindsay: MUST READ! @MaureenJohnson systematically breaks down the James Frey contract and explains what it means to writers: ...

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From Twitter 11-13-2010

23:28:50: RT @makinglight: New on Making Light: Reason 6,136 that the internet is not a waste of time http://dlvr.it/8VJ8r
23:29:09: RT @patinagle: RT @zen_moments: Four rules for life. Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results. ~ Angeles ...
23:37:28: RT @charliejane: fantastic essay by ted koppel about how biased news became the news http://wapo.st/amuXAe

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From Twitter 11-12-2010

07:25:00: Airspaces in lungs rediscovered by coughing out the goop that was filling them. Tiring, but rewarding, too.
10:08:46: RT @patinagle: RT @bookviewcafe: Today's Special from Patricia Rice: new chapter in This Magic Moment - read it for free at http://www.b ...
13:47:07: RT @NASA: A wall of sand blew across eastern China yesterday. The view from our Terra satellite, some 400 miles up. http://go.usa.gov/CPz
13:47:34: RT @patinagle: RT @bookviewcafe: On the BVC blog: Judith Tarr talks about Tucson in Spirits of Place series - http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/

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From Twitter 11-11-2010

10:47:51: RT @kindjourneys: Please RT this if you're a graduate who would not have been able to go to uni if tuition fees had been in place when y ...
10:51:08: RT @FindingAda: RT @jester/@sajarina: 1996: the last time Wired US did a cover story on a woman based on her accomplishments? http://bit ...
10:54:37: RT @CherylMorgan: New blog post: It Can, And It Does http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=9760

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