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desperancePost! From America! The contracts for the Year's Best story, and a copy of Lace and Blade, so I can finally read everybody else's story, yay!
Um, after I've read the novel I'm supposed to be blurbing. Whoops.
Oh, and I'm sort of supposed to be reading my own novel as well, aren't I? Yikes...
Actually, to be fair to myself (and why not?), my own book is now five-sixths read and scribbled on, and almost a quarter has been processed. It's just slow, so sloooowwww, I ache with the burden of it all...
And! I was in mid-aching, skullsweating over the pages this morning when this man came up to me - in the Silence Room, yet! - and asked if I was by any chance an expert in Cuban political history.
I denied it, obviously, though I do know more this week than I did last. And so he wandered off and asked someone else, and was as quickly repulsed. And okay, this is the Lit & Phil, wherein all the knowledge of the world is contained (it's kind of like LJ in that respect, only solid), but even so. That's just so ... random, y'know? I might have wondered if I had the look of an expert in Cuban political history, except that the woman he asked next looked nothing like me.
Um, after I've read the novel I'm supposed to be blurbing. Whoops.
Oh, and I'm sort of supposed to be reading my own novel as well, aren't I? Yikes...
Actually, to be fair to myself (and why not?), my own book is now five-sixths read and scribbled on, and almost a quarter has been processed. It's just slow, so sloooowwww, I ache with the burden of it all...
And! I was in mid-aching, skullsweating over the pages this morning when this man came up to me - in the Silence Room, yet! - and asked if I was by any chance an expert in Cuban political history.
I denied it, obviously, though I do know more this week than I did last. And so he wandered off and asked someone else, and was as quickly repulsed. And okay, this is the Lit & Phil, wherein all the knowledge of the world is contained (it's kind of like LJ in that respect, only solid), but even so. That's just so ... random, y'know? I might have wondered if I had the look of an expert in Cuban political history, except that the woman he asked next looked nothing like me.