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handful_ofdust) wrote2006-03-12 10:46 pm
handful_ofdust) wrote2006-03-12 10:46 pm
Shittiest Sunday Ever
...though the funny part is, language aside, I'm neither all that angry nor all that surprised: Of course, I have to pull the POV piece out of my ass by tomorrow morning. Of course, Steve misheard "10:30 AM" for "11:30 AM", and left me standing in the cold for forty-five minutes; by the time I finally got fed up enough to just leave, I'd already missed the meeting with Michael McMaster and friends, and when I came back, Steve was sitting there waiting for me. With Cal. He'd probably still be there, if I hadn't shown up. Oh, and of course the other front wheel broke off the stroller, because hell, it'd only finally been fixed for what? A fucking DAY? Of course, infinity.
So I won't stay long. Cal is toothy and screamy and down in his crib, and he's staying there 'till I get a first draft. Steve has finally funked himself to sleep, because all this means to him isn't hey, wake-up call, time to maybe get a frigging cellphone and wear a frigging watch and take frigging responsibility for what I do or don't do but, instead, yet another prime chance to play the oh poor sinful me, I'm such a BAD person, I don't desrve to enjoy my own life and should mope around constantly, gazing at my own navel instead of keeping my child away from my wife while she's writing something we'll both receive money for, like I promised I would game. Cry me a river, bitch: World's smallest violin, right 'chere.
And...that's that.I'm done. No more time to BS, me. Because some of us don't get to act like fucking babies.
So I won't stay long. Cal is toothy and screamy and down in his crib, and he's staying there 'till I get a first draft. Steve has finally funked himself to sleep, because all this means to him isn't hey, wake-up call, time to maybe get a frigging cellphone and wear a frigging watch and take frigging responsibility for what I do or don't do but, instead, yet another prime chance to play the oh poor sinful me, I'm such a BAD person, I don't desrve to enjoy my own life and should mope around constantly, gazing at my own navel instead of keeping my child away from my wife while she's writing something we'll both receive money for, like I promised I would game. Cry me a river, bitch: World's smallest violin, right 'chere.
And...that's that.I'm done. No more time to BS, me. Because some of us don't get to act like fucking babies.
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Are most of your publications in anthologies? I keep nosing around bookstores for your name but I haven't turned up anything yet. Not that that's a reflection on you, these are some really crappy bookstores we're talking about.
Thanks, Man
As to your other question: I have two collections of short stories out (Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart), and they encapsulate/collect pretty much everything I've written over the last fifteen years, most of which was indeed published in magazines and/or anthologies. They're the single best place to find my stuff, but you'd probably have to order them either directly from Prime Books or through Amazon.com--that's what I have to do, when I want some. Absolute worst-case scenario, send me an email directly and we'll work out some sort of deal, with me mailing you copies on my own hook. I'm not proud, and I have so few fans, it seems stupid not to cultivate them any way I can.;)
BTW, I never did give you the Cliff's Notes version on "The Emperor's..." Do you still want it?
Re: Thanks, Man
And yes, please, I would adore the cliff's notes. My email is chipiscrazy AT netzero DOT net.
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sheesh!
Heidi seems to want me again, but then so does my mom. I'll write you again when I'm downtown...
Re: sheesh!
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The present is embodied in Hexagram 63 - Chi Chi (After Completion): We see progress and success in small matters. There will be advantage in being firm and correct. There has been good fortune in the beginning, but there may be disorder in the end.
The second line, divided, shows its subject as a wife who has lost her carriage-screen. There is no occasion to go in pursuit of it. In seven days she will find it.
The third line, undivided, suggests the case of Kao Tsung who attacked the Demon region, but was three years in subduing it. Small men should not be employed in such enterprises.
The situation is shifting, but neither Yin (the passive feminine force) nor Yang (the active masculine force) is gaining ground.
The future is embodied in Hexagram 60 - Chieh (Limitation): There will be progress and attainment, but if the regulations prescribed be severe and difficult, they cannot be permanent.
The things most apparent, those above and in front, are embodied by the upper trigram K'an (Water), which represents danger and the unknown.
The things least apparent, those below and behind, are embodied by the lower trigram Li (Fire), which is transforming into Tui (Lake). As part of this process, brightness and warmth are giving way to joy, pleasure, and attraction.
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