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Still Chasing the Dream
While packing for my recent writing conference in Florida, I did the three things any smart gal does: check weather.com’s extended forecast, choose the prettiest shoes, and bring lots of books. I was ready for some sunshine, as Atlanta’s teaser of Spring went from 60 degree days to 30 degree days and I hate being teased.
The conference was called Sleuthfest, sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America, the Florida Chapter and was geared to the detective/police/PI/thriller/suspense market… more suited for the novel I’m almost done with, not really the one I wanted to pitch, but the agent list was …
I waited a good long time to say, "My psychic told me…"
He read these cards and told me wonderful, curious things and also some bad, sorrowful things. Just to be fair.
They say reading tarot cards can foster hope and temperance.
These particular cards are called PSY CARDS. They explore Jungian psychology in tandem with the meanings of the 40 cards in the Psy•Card System deck.
it was pretty cool, except for me insulting the cat.
My friend who came with me did not have half as good a time, or half as good a psychic, but he still bought me lunch.
The good?
I will get a literary …
Say it to me now.
I have never made a game of relationships. I am so much “all or nothing- love me or leave me alone” that I am really tossed about by people who put so much energy into NOT saying something. It takes all kinds to make the world go around, I get that, and as I research some disturbed individuals for the new novel, it all feels a little squirrelly. Not DEXTER weird, but close… the deeper I go with the story, the more I want to stand up and shout with Glen.
And if you like that? There’s another Glen Hansard …
When a sleep aid cure is worse than not sleeping.
Serious side effects of AMBIEN include:
- getting out of bed while not being fully awake and do an activity that you do not know you are doing. e.g., preparing and eating food, making phone calls, or having sex have been reported in patients who are not fully awake after taking a sedative-hypnotic. As with “sleep-driving”, patients usually do not remember these events.
- abnormal thoughts and behavior. Symptoms include more outgoing or aggressive behavior than normal, confusion, agitation, hallucinations, worsening of depression, and suicidal thoughts or actions. Visual and auditory hallucinations have been reported as well as behavioral
Dragon*Con Atlanta 2008 Secret
SHHHH. This is the secret.
You can have just as good a time for FREE at Dragon*Con.
Skip the line and pretend you know where you’re going. Head for the elevator.
then do what we did. Drink at all the lobby bars, ride the glass elevators and stroll the lobbies of 4 hotels, taking pictures like this:
Convince new friends to Play the “stranger in the picture” game 
and laugh knowing all kinds of people will go home unable to answer the question, “Who’s that blonde?”
Meet some crazy girls. Insult one by saying you love her gown, that you’d …
Why do you blog?
It‘s not bad enough that we judge ourselves every time we look in a mirror, see ourselves in a photo, hear our out-going message on the voicemail… now we have opened ourselves up to a blogosphere that may not accept us.
They don’t understand, we whine. They didn’t get the joke. I stink at this. Who reads this shit anyway? Why does it matter? What am I supposed to say? Why do I have so many hits and so few comments? Who did I offend now?
I hear all of this from new bloggers and sometimes from people who …
My Great Idea for a New Company: PAID TO WAIT
Instead of ruining your day waiting for the cable guy, the phone installer, the pest treatment specialist, the painters, the mechanic, the plumber, the window washer, house cleaner, babysitter, your parents on the 5 pm Delta flight…
May I suggest the services of a PAID WAITER?
Not the kind who serve you dinner or lunch, because those are servers who are erroneously called “waiters”… unless you count their waiting around for you to pay your bill and leave.
No, this WAITING service would be provided by a patient, soft-spoken, agreeable, insured and bonded individual. No need to reschedule your day, …
Hard Drive Crash Surprisingly Liberating
After 22 months of daily, vigorous pounding. My MACBOOK took a crap.
Today I wear black, reinstall, update, restore.. put data from online storage sites and try to reconfigure a network of emails that I am certain are going to be important someday.
Yes, it stinks. And no there is no way to retrieve the lost data.
It’s weird. I have been calm about the whole thing, made jokes even. So very unlike me.
Because I think I brought it all on myself by complaining just the other day about all the junk I had accumulated on there and wishing …
Eat Pray Love. Read.
Did you ever read a book and find yourself nodding your head so much that you felt like one of those bobble dolls in the rear window of a 1972 Charger?
And then I went to her website.
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