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ITEM THE FIRST: Alice Sola Kim is one of my favorite writers. She has a mind-bendy new story about obsession, euthanasia, and body-stealing over at Strange Horizons. Go read We Love Deena.
ITEM THE SECOND: The above is an example of a plug. On Friday I asked y'all to plug your work, and a few of you did. Not many, though, so I'm asking you again. Go to that post and tell me what you've got that we should all be picking up and/or waiting for with bated breath.
ITEM THE THIRD: Irony lives! After voting for the front-runner in Dr. L's poll (see sidebar), I am now reading two-count-'em-two books about vampires: Mr. Westerfeld's Peeps and Sergei Lukyanenko's Nightwatch. Two very different approaches, and I'm enjoying them both.
ITEM THE FOURTH: I miss the sun. It's me vs. February, and February is winning. Next year at this time I think I'm going to try to get out of this hemisphere. Maybe Argentina, maybe Kenya. Maybe I'm dreaming and I can't afford either. It's nice to think about, though.
ITEM THE SECOND: The above is an example of a plug. On Friday I asked y'all to plug your work, and a few of you did. Not many, though, so I'm asking you again. Go to that post and tell me what you've got that we should all be picking up and/or waiting for with bated breath.
ITEM THE THIRD: Irony lives! After voting for the front-runner in Dr. L's poll (see sidebar), I am now reading two-count-'em-two books about vampires: Mr. Westerfeld's Peeps and Sergei Lukyanenko's Nightwatch. Two very different approaches, and I'm enjoying them both.
ITEM THE FOURTH: I miss the sun. It's me vs. February, and February is winning. Next year at this time I think I'm going to try to get out of this hemisphere. Maybe Argentina, maybe Kenya. Maybe I'm dreaming and I can't afford either. It's nice to think about, though.
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Date: 2008-02-11 04:22 pm (UTC)Actually, I have one question right off the bat: when's the best time to go?
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Date: 2008-02-11 04:24 pm (UTC)I'm still hoping I might get over there for book-release stuff, too. But so far there's been no word on anything of the sort.
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Date: 2008-02-11 05:25 pm (UTC)If I can be of any further assistance, please do feel free to ask.
(Actually, in all seriousness, I have a happy light and it does help.)
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Date: 2008-02-11 05:45 pm (UTC)http://www.sadelite.com/
I have the desk lamp they call "SADelite." It's $189.
But. I've had it for five years. I use it for my desk lamp. I write in my journal while sitting in front of it every morning. I have for years. I think it makes a big difference, especially in the winter.
The light is also part of a comprehensive strategy involving diet and exercise that I use to avoid taking anti-depressants. Anti-depressants, great though they may be for many people and were for me at times, absolutely wreck my creative impulses. So that's what's behind my Health Nuttiness.
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Date: 2008-02-11 05:51 pm (UTC)Maybe if I sell some foreign rights I can justify spending the cash :-)
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Date: 2008-02-11 06:00 pm (UTC)Exercise really is the key for me. If I don't get my walk or run or whatever in for a few days, I really miss those endolphins*.
*See "Postcards From the Edge"
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Date: 2008-02-11 07:08 pm (UTC)I completely agree with you about February, although I'm aware that however suckily I have it weather-wise, you've got it a thousand million times worse. Are you seriously thinking about going on that vacation next year? YOU SHOULD DO IT. There's a whole year to plan, and to do things that will get you some extra cash, like selling skanky outfits in Second Life, or opening a cocaine stand.
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Date: 2008-02-11 07:27 pm (UTC)I am seriously thinking about it, although I probably seriously think about it every year at this time. As in, "February sucks. I should go somewhere far, far away next February. Like, for the whole stinkin' month." And then it doesn't happen.
However, COCAINE STAND!!! That is genius. Southern Hemisphere, here I come! (Well, either that or Maximum Security Penitentiary.)
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Date: 2008-02-12 01:01 am (UTC)Or just come visit us -- we can't promise great weather, but there's dogs and hilarity.
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