Donezo

[handful_ofdust]

So: "Yellowback" is done! Fucking finally. I sent it off to [venue], should find out later this week if the editor wants it/what sort of tweaking I might have to do with it. And now I am in that place where I try to reset myself, while also trying not to berate myself for having taken three weeks to finish a not-exactly-short story instead of two. Last night I celebrated by watching a documentary about the making and resonance of Alien (Memory, which begins with the Furies turning up on the Nostromo, speaking Ancient Greek and sporting the chestburster's steely needle-teeth) and Benson & Moorhead's latest, Synchronic, which is both frankly brilliant and very moving. ("The past is hell," Anthony Mackie says, at one point; this is borne out, especially considering he's time-travelling back into various versions of New Orleans's history and pre-history [as a modern-day black man].) Then I finished The Crime of Laura Sarelle, a Marjorie Bowen novel I've never actually read before, which was wonderful.

Anyway. Clarice's second episode definitely bears out everything I loved about the pilot; The Equalizer with Queen Latifah is fun as hell; I finished the first season of HBO's 30 Coins. And I really want to paint some more. But today is probably mainly going to be about email, cleaning up my desktop, figuring out what to do next. I vaguely remember when I used to write long-ass posts. No doubt that will happen again, at some point.