Hey, munchkins. Having a good Friday? Mine's pretty good so far --
met with a student, churned through a bunch of mail, ate a Lean Cuisine
meal for lunch that is supposedly their top seller, which makes me think
that I really ought to call them up and offer to give them a better
recipe, 'cause that one was pretty sad. I'll cook tonight, but I'm in
enough of a work mood that I didn't want to pause long enough to chop
onions and make a curry.
Here's what's left for today:
- clear out mailbox
- SH bookmarks, mugs, t-shirt - get design specs to Lucy; find printer,
print, distribute!!
- send Q's to Patrick Hayden
- send out SH updated guidelines
- Asian SF book proposal
- write recommendation for Shmuel and mail to Humanities Division, Dean
of Students Office
- clear desk
- read fiction stories
- write fiction piece
- read semiotics stories
- read Heir to Govandhara
Hah! I'm so optimistic in the mornings. You've surely noticed that many
of those have rolled over from the last time I made such a list. :-)
S'okay. I'm actually making good progress on item #2 on there, which is
one that's been hanging around for a long time, so that's good. I think
today is mostly going to be a SH day -- trying to get the promotional
items going, getting that Hayden interview underway, sending out the
updated guidelines with the new pay rates, reading
Heir to
review, and in the process of clearing out my desk, sending out some
checks and contracts. If I manage to get all that done today, I will be
very satisfied with myself. Exceedingly so. Fingers crossed...
Image Notebook
Sitting across from me on the bus, a big man, bulky with crew cut and
camouflage jacket; the kind of man who I tend to assume is someone I would
not want to be stuck in an elevator with. And then he reaches into his
duffel bag, pulls out a library copy of
Harry Potter and the
Sorceror's Stone, opens it eagerly to somewhere around page twenty
or so, and I am feeling very embarrassed, but also delighted.
