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So I finally got
Scott's new look blog up and running. What a hassle that was! I always think it will be just an hour or two. Hah! Try several days of hassles. Especially as there was a migration of his site to a new server. Why is it always so hard?
Anyways . . . It's up and I think it looks great. Go take a squiz and tell me what you think. Though if you have any complaints tell Scott, not me!
All praise to
Sadish Balasubramanian who designed the very nifty and flexible
SeaShore template.
I was planning a redesign here to go with the new book but the very thought of going through that again makes ...
Posted by Justine at 16:10, December 16th, 2007 under Admin, Bloggery, Scott's books, Whingeing |
So that I can better get to know what you, the reader, thinks, I have added a poll thingie to the sidebar. ((This was in no way a work avoidance measure. It is serious research!))
The first poll is about winter because I need to know if the total darkness before 5PM and constant cold and the only decent fruit & veg being apples and pumpkin is bumming out anyone other than me. ((I should be clear: it's only Northern hemisphere winters I hate. Sydney winters are lovely.)) Tell me I am not alone!
That it's December and I'm still stuck in the Northern hemisphere fills my soul with despair.
Here have some more quokkas:
Lucky quokkas living far away in sunshine and ...
Posted by Justine at 1:10, December 10th, 2007 under Admin, Bloggery, New York City/USA |
Posted by Justine at 0:03, December 4th, 2007 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones |
It's now minus six. Or twenty-one in that crazy Fahrenheit talk.
Help me!
Posted by Justine at 8:04, December 2nd, 2007 under New York City/USA, Whingeing |
I dies.
I think I'm going to have to learn Fahrenheit cause 31 sounds lovely to me while -1 makes me want to cry.
I have not been outside today. Partly due to the dread evil deadlines and partly because it's -1 out there! Bits of me could freeze and fall off!
How am I going to make it to the end of January?
Aaargghh!!!
Posted by Justine at 17:39, December 1st, 2007 under New York City/USA, Whingeing |
I so wish I was back home right now. I'd get to follow the cricket and the election. It would be warm. The sun wouldn't be setting just a few hours after it rose. No one would be asking me about my accent. People would know that Errol Flynn is Australian. I'm sick of being a foreignor. Back home I don't have to explain myself nearly so often. I can't tell you how tiring it gets.
If I was in Sydney right now I would go for a long walk. I'd hear
flying foxes in the trees. I'd smell all the night flowering plants. I'd watch the light sparkling on the harbour. I'd be HOME. And I'd go to Forbes ...
Posted by Justine at 7:41, November 16th, 2007 under New York City/USA, Praising, Sydney/Australia, Whingeing |
It has come to this. I have the final round of edits on the Fairy book. They are in manuscript form. However, there is no room on my desk to put the manuscript. The towering piles of crap cannot stand any further weight, not even one small piece of paper, definitely not 264 manuscript pages. I know because I tried and there was much toppling of crap to the floor. It is now dumped back on the desk.
The desk must be cleaned in order for me to work.
I am afraid of it. It is now more like an archaeological dig than mere cleaning. I fear what I might find: I did clean away all uneaten food, didn't I? I fear ...
Posted by Justine at 10:44, November 4th, 2007 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, Whingeing |
Posted by Justine at 1:11, October 29th, 2007 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, Titles & names, Whingeing, Words & Language, Writing life |
A friend of mine, who doesn't blog or read blogs, asked me why I blog. "Don't you feel weird sharing your personal life with total strangers?"
Their question surprised me because I don't blog about my personal life. This isn't that kind of a blog. I explained that to my friend. They didn't believe me. "You talk about your writing, don't you? That's personal."
Um, no. Writing is my job.
"But what about when your writing's not going well? Aren't the bad times personal?"
First of all, I don't blog about when the writing's going really badly.
Second, when I blog about the harder aspects of writing I do so to let people know that the writing life is not as glamorous as ...
Posted by Justine at 6:16, September 27th, 2007 under Bloggery, Whingeing |
Posted by Justine at 11:33, September 20th, 2007 under Bloggery, Whingeing, Writing life |
The worst thing about DragonCon---other than the way too many people thing---is that it's on the exact same weekend as the WNBA conference finals. I missed seeing Phoenix sweep San Antonio (woo hoo! Amy---sorry, Rebecca) and will miss all the Indiana-Detroit games (please Indiana win tonight!)
Seeing all those insanely brilliant costumes is some compensation I suppose. Riding on the train with Holly, Theo, Cassandra, Maureen and Scott ditto. Sitting around in a hotel room with them telling ghost stories also not too foul.
Which reminds me what are your favourite urban legends? Feel free to leave a link in the comments if you don't feel like telling the whole thing. So far we've done the finger nails one, the hook, the ...
Posted by Justine at 8:47, September 3rd, 2007 under Basketball, Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Praising, Whingeing |
The tomatoes right now are unspeakably good. I went to the Tompkins Square farmers' market this morning and bought eight different kinds. Yum. They're so sweet and flavouresome they don't need dressing. Just salt and pepper and a squeeze of lime and you have the best tomato salad ever.
They also had the first
cape goosberries (husk cherries) of the season. Heaven! And the fresh garlic keeps on. I think I'll do a stir fry tonight of kale, lebanese cukes, garlic and onion. (All bought at the market.)
Even though I'm locked in working my arse off on the UFB and can't remember the last time I talked to a real human being (other than Scott) I'm still eating well! Sometimes ...
Posted by Justine at 13:27, August 12th, 2007 under Food, How To Ditch Your Fairy, New York City/USA, Praising, Whingeing |
Posted by Justine at 12:07, July 31st, 2007 under Bloggery, Cricket, Sport, Sydney/Australia, Whingeing, Writing life |
Apparently there are
lots of people out there who hated Sunshine and think it the worst movie ever. I beg to differ.
While I don't think it was anywhere near best-movie-ever-made status, there was a lot I enjoyed about it compared to your average sf movie, which as a genre I mostly hate. Seriously the amount of sf films I think are okay (in a non-camp way) is very very small. Sunshine gave me a mission to save the world without big long speeches about saving humanity, uniformly good acting, no boredom, plus it was pretty.
What I didn't like were the standard annoying Hollywoodisms, like, and here come the spoilers,
Posted by Justine at 0:17, July 29th, 2007 under Viewing, Whingeing |
I am in crunch time. I am in crunchy crunch time. The busyness I have been complaining about has rebounded on itself and leapt to a whole new level of busy. In a word: Aaaarggghh!!!!
I'm going to keep blogging. I made a little bet with myself to see if I could blog every day of July and so far so good. I hate to lose bets with myself. Especially fun ones. Also blogging kind of clears my head. Dunno why but when I'm deep in writing, blogging really helps me to unwind---that and a glass of wine.
However, I'll no longer be replying to comments as much as I have been (which I know has been down on what it used ...
Posted by Justine at 11:44, July 28th, 2007 under Bloggery, Excuses, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Whingeing |
Marrije asked over on insideadog if I'll be following the Tour de France this year. Sadly, I will not.
This year has gotten out of control. I cannot afford to spend hours every day watching the Tour and following it online. I am incapable of following the Tour non-obsessively. So for the first time in years I'm not following it at all. (No spousal pressure was brought to bear in the making of this decision. Well, okay, just a little bit. I am not husband-beaten! I am not!)
Waaaahh!!!!!
The New York Liberty (10-8) will have to sustain my sport-following needs this northern summer.
And now I go back to the myriad tasks that confront me. At this point it's so bad I'm resorting ...
Posted by Justine at 12:02, July 9th, 2007 under Basketball, Sport, Tour de France, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 1:02, June 30th, 2007 under Excuses, Whingeing |
Posted by Justine at 12:44, April 14th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Excuses, Praising, Ranting, Scott's books, Travelling, Unicorns, Young Adult literature, Zombies |
Posted by Justine at 10:08, April 5th, 2007 under Bloggery, Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Vainglory, Whingeing, Young Adult literature |
