Back in the saddle

Posted on | 3 years, 6 months ago, around lunchtime | No Comments

It’s been one hell of a weekend — not quite as hectic as the weekend scarcely survived by Mark & Caroline, but busy nonetheless. Please allow me to sum up briefly, with bullet points, because I need to sit down and finish my story-in-progress before I go nuts.

* Friday we went and saw the most recent installation of The Mummy franchise. I found it tough to swallow that Brendan Frasier is old enough to be the father of this 20-something dude, but maybe that just dates me. It was fluffy and fun, despite its aggravating replacement of Rachel Weisz (as Evelyn Carnahan) and the laughable CGI yetis. And seriously — how cool must it be to BE Jet Li? Every morning I bet he wakes up, stares in the mirror, and says, “Today, I’m going to wear the coolest clothes, display the baddest moves, and generally kick ass, as per usual.”

* The Little Internet Petition That Could has gained a couple thousand signatures since Friday. That’s nice. Is it earth-changing? No, surely not. But it’s nice, and I fully support their efforts.

* Saturday, there was a book-release party for Richelle Mead’s latest, Storm Born (which you should totally buy and read). The shindig occurred at the home of Richelle’s S.O., and Team Seattle was in Full Effect (except for Kat, who thumbed her nose at us by going to WorldCon. Like we blame her, or something). Aric and I drank hurricanes. Then we tried to learn how to play Zombie Fluxx. One of these things was generally more successful than the other. Mark wrote more about the evening here.

* I got several thousand words of writing done, and will try to finish “Tanglefoot” today, after lunch. Lunch took most of the morning to sort out, since we desperately needed some groceries; but now the fridge is semi-full again, and once more I have a package of veggie hot dogs from Trader Joe’s sitting on top of a tub of ground beef — for I am nothing if not inconsistent.

Anyway, that’s all I’ve got for now. Have a good one, folks, and I’ll come back with writing metrics this afternoon (or so it is to be hoped).

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