Translucent skin I'd look right through

Yesterday I put my cousin on a plane and sent her back to Florida. Her visit amounted to three days of running all over town for job interviews (for her, not me), with the occasional nibble of lunch or gelato. Always nice to see her, of course, and I hope she gets the gig she's really pining for; I also hope her move back to Tennessee next month goes smoothly, for she'll be just a couple of miles away.

Not much else to report, I suppose. The last two weeks have been quite full and sociable, and I've gotten some work done - no, seriously! - but mostly it's been writing business work, rather than writing.

I may or may not climb back on the composition pony come tomorrow, depending on the weather; our yard is in a truly terrible state, and I need to attend to it...but it's been so hot. Or wet. Or both. It's difficult to scrape up the motivation, even when one has kicky sun hats to wear and heirloom tomatoes to baby.

It's hard to procrastinate when you're busy procrastinating from your usual procrastination activity of choice.

That said, just one more thing and then I'll go find some other way to procrastinate - or get down to business, whichever. (Yes, I know it's Friday afternoon. Deadlines know no weekend.) I wanted to post this here so it gets the play it deserves, before I forget: Tor.com is having a 5th birthday blowout, offering all five years' worth of that site's original fiction in a free ebook anthology .

Yeah, you read that right. Five years. Of stories. Free. For you to read. The collection includes my Wild Cards short, "The Button Man and the Murder Tree," as well as offerings from approximately one bazillion other folks whose stuff you WANT no you really DO just click over there and look.

Free. That's the operative word.
So go on. Check it out.
And have a fabulous weekend. Spend it inside reading, maybe.