An Oddly Compressed and Useless Month
Dec 12th, 2009 by steve
I’m thinking we should just skip December. I never seem to get anything done.
Okay. Not skipping it. Just breathless. I’m so over my head that I’m writing this instead of dealing with any of the many things coming down the pike.
We started the month with two (2) family birthdays, already passed, but the public party is this afternoon. We’re talking my daughters BD on the 10th and Laura’s on the 8th. We really just pretend Xmas doesn’t exist until we get these out of the way. This of course, makes the Xmas stuff incredibly frantic as well. In addition, various consulting jobs are hammering Laura and I wrote and sold an overdue zombie story for John Joseph Adams anthology The Living Dead 2. I signed contracts for the third Jumper novel which I think is going to be called Frames of Reference.
I spent half of November painting and doing house repairs on the infamous Monkey House in Bryan, Texas. Back in October I turned in and did editorial rewrites for the novel 7th Sigma, which includes the piece from Tor.com, “Bugs in the Arroyo,” and is set in the same universe as my Analog piece, “A Story, With Beans.” And then there was other contracts to be fiddled with since “A Story, With Beans” will be reprinted in Prime Book’s The Year’s Best Science and Fantasy, 2010 Edition, edited by Rich Horton.
So, maybe something are getting done.
Oh.
I’ve just been told the party is off.
Apparently I was also told this two days ago but I was playing xbox and said, “Yes, dear.”
So, there’s some pressure released.
So, this blog post which was supposed to be about avoiding getting ready for the party is just a blog post.
C’est la vie.
Oh gosh, I’m sorry you’re going through that. Although I thought the “Yes, dear.” was a bit funny, and yet unwise. That kind of thing (Which I believe you already know this.) can get men in trouble, women angery, and then someone is left (sadly it is usually us guys.) feeling embaressed and stupid as ever. Same can go with “Yes, mom.” too.
Also, I’m not a critic, but, that title for the Jumper sequel seems just a little off… it just sounds like something you’re describing and not an actual title. Maybe something like these would do better:
Pulse,(Response to Reflex) Leap, (Response to Jumper) Optical Oblivion, (This actually does nicely, I mean jumping looks as if you vanish like a candle getting blown out right? I mean to the person who saw you teleport.) Gateport,(Idk, in the book it mentions a window does it not?)
Oh, and you play Xbox? I had no idea. Though that just adds to that mistake with your wife… Hope she does not read this.
A zombie story? Could be interesting. Seems 2009 was the year of the zombie – and I liked it very much