A busy and creative summer so far.I've returned to dr...
A busy and creative summer so far.
I've returned to drawing as to an old, old flame: taking Head drawing, and Figure drawing, and gratified to find that I'm still fairly good at it (though it'll take me about 6 months to learn how to hold the charcoal properly). Before summer's end I hope to start painting again. (Like I'll have time to do THAT once school starts!).
Hollywood Bowl concerts season starts Thursday, with picnics in the twilight (and a frakking nightmare drive up to the Shuttle-Stop in Hollywood - though I will say that the parking at Hwd/Highland is designed to get you in and get you out FAST).
Enough sleep - Yay!
Many people over the years have recommended that I watch Firefly, and I'm enjoying it very much so far. (Well, it's pretty much Blake's Seven, and I enjoyed THAT...) (With far better special effects, of course. But Plan 9 From Outer Space had better special effects than Blake's Seven).
And, excellent progress on the next Ben January (#13 - yowsa!). Still waiting to hear on whether they'll want re-writes on Kindred of Darkness (Asher/Ysidro #5) - for some reason that was a difficult story to write. By contrast, January #13 feels very solid, perhaps because what appears to be the goal appears to be obvious: Benjamin (this time) isn't searching for shadows in the dark as Lydia was doing all through Kindred.
Yeah, the washing machine just tanked (and the computer blew up a couple of weeks ago - is Mercury in retrograde or something?), but I'd far rather have problems that can be solved with money (always depending on the amount we're talking about) than problems that can't.
I've returned to drawing as to an old, old flame: taking Head drawing, and Figure drawing, and gratified to find that I'm still fairly good at it (though it'll take me about 6 months to learn how to hold the charcoal properly). Before summer's end I hope to start painting again. (Like I'll have time to do THAT once school starts!).
Hollywood Bowl concerts season starts Thursday, with picnics in the twilight (and a frakking nightmare drive up to the Shuttle-Stop in Hollywood - though I will say that the parking at Hwd/Highland is designed to get you in and get you out FAST).
Enough sleep - Yay!
Many people over the years have recommended that I watch Firefly, and I'm enjoying it very much so far. (Well, it's pretty much Blake's Seven, and I enjoyed THAT...) (With far better special effects, of course. But Plan 9 From Outer Space had better special effects than Blake's Seven).
And, excellent progress on the next Ben January (#13 - yowsa!). Still waiting to hear on whether they'll want re-writes on Kindred of Darkness (Asher/Ysidro #5) - for some reason that was a difficult story to write. By contrast, January #13 feels very solid, perhaps because what appears to be the goal appears to be obvious: Benjamin (this time) isn't searching for shadows in the dark as Lydia was doing all through Kindred.
Yeah, the washing machine just tanked (and the computer blew up a couple of weeks ago - is Mercury in retrograde or something?), but I'd far rather have problems that can be solved with money (always depending on the amount we're talking about) than problems that can't.
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