thinking in only four dimensions (again)
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greygirlbeastAnd yesterday that was about the best this sad lump of grey matter in my skull could manage, and it was barely managing that. Puzzling out all the itsy bitsy errors peppering the text of The Dry Salvages because there were initially two mistakes regarding time dilation and intersteller travel that frelled lots of stuff up. Spooky kept me from drifting away and drowning in a puddle of my own stupidity. And now the ms. is 97% corrected. Today, all I have left to do is add a few snippets of text here and there. What began as innocent copyediting (there's an oxymoron) ballooned into a rewrite, and I've apologized to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press for this. It means that the ms. will have to be laid out a second time. But I am determined to get this right. It's not obsessive perfectionism. It's just me trying to do something better than a half-assed job. Mucho thanks to the amazing Larne "Llar'en" Pekowsky for holding my hand and guiding me through all the Big, Scary Numbers.
Which is all to say that I finally got my eema out of "park" yesterday and worked. If it didn't exactly feel good, at least it felt better than the alternative.
At this point, I believe I am at least three weeks behind.
Was there anything more to yesterday? Not much. We were still working on The Dry Salvages at six p.m. I forgot to work out (though I have managed to lose five pounds since returning from Rhode Island in July, which is a good thing). Spooky talked with Andre at AFX Studios, who plays a big part in making Nar'eth real, and we scheduled my make-up session for 10 a.m. on Sunday, September 5th. It usually takes about four hours, start to finish. And that was all of yesterday that bears (or lions, or tigers) repeating.
I'm thinking my hair may soon be black again. This blonde thing is nice, but it's a hell of a lot of trouble.
For some time now, I've been meaning to write a meme. I've never written a meme before. At least, not to my knowledge. So here goes...
1. My favorite film in the Alien series is:
CRK: Alien (1979)
2. My favorite Cure album is:
CRK: Disintegration
3. My favorite David Bowie album is:
CRK: Outside
4. My favorite film in the Matrix series is:
CRK: The Matrix
5. My favorite film in the Star Wars series is:
CRK: The Empire Strikes Back
6. Complete this sentence: "Tofu is [ ]."
CRK: nasty
7. My favorite Ridley Scott film is:
CRK: Blade Runner
8. My favorite John Carpenter film is:
CRK: The Thing
9. I first had sex at age:
CRK: 14
10. My favorite season is [winter, spring, summer, or fall]:
CRK: summer
11. The Fifth Element and Dark City were two of the most brilliant sf films of the '90s (agree or disagree):
CRK: Agree
12: Farscape or Stargate: SG-1 (you have to choose one or the other):
CRK: Farscape (duh)
13: I first had sex with another person at age:
CRK: 14
14: My favorite Kate Bush album is:
CRK: The Hounds of Love
15: My favorite H. P. Lovecraft story/novella is:
CRK: "The Colour Out of Space"
Your participation is critical. From these fifteen simple questions, carefully chosen through a tedious process of elimination over the last ten minutes, anyone can compute his or her or its ultimate worth to the multiverse.
Which is all to say that I finally got my eema out of "park" yesterday and worked. If it didn't exactly feel good, at least it felt better than the alternative.
At this point, I believe I am at least three weeks behind.
Was there anything more to yesterday? Not much. We were still working on The Dry Salvages at six p.m. I forgot to work out (though I have managed to lose five pounds since returning from Rhode Island in July, which is a good thing). Spooky talked with Andre at AFX Studios, who plays a big part in making Nar'eth real, and we scheduled my make-up session for 10 a.m. on Sunday, September 5th. It usually takes about four hours, start to finish. And that was all of yesterday that bears (or lions, or tigers) repeating.
I'm thinking my hair may soon be black again. This blonde thing is nice, but it's a hell of a lot of trouble.
For some time now, I've been meaning to write a meme. I've never written a meme before. At least, not to my knowledge. So here goes...
1. My favorite film in the Alien series is:
CRK: Alien (1979)
2. My favorite Cure album is:
CRK: Disintegration
3. My favorite David Bowie album is:
CRK: Outside
4. My favorite film in the Matrix series is:
CRK: The Matrix
5. My favorite film in the Star Wars series is:
CRK: The Empire Strikes Back
6. Complete this sentence: "Tofu is [ ]."
CRK: nasty
7. My favorite Ridley Scott film is:
CRK: Blade Runner
8. My favorite John Carpenter film is:
CRK: The Thing
9. I first had sex at age:
CRK: 14
10. My favorite season is [winter, spring, summer, or fall]:
CRK: summer
11. The Fifth Element and Dark City were two of the most brilliant sf films of the '90s (agree or disagree):
CRK: Agree
12: Farscape or Stargate: SG-1 (you have to choose one or the other):
CRK: Farscape (duh)
13: I first had sex with another person at age:
CRK: 14
14: My favorite Kate Bush album is:
CRK: The Hounds of Love
15: My favorite H. P. Lovecraft story/novella is:
CRK: "The Colour Out of Space"
Your participation is critical. From these fifteen simple questions, carefully chosen through a tedious process of elimination over the last ten minutes, anyone can compute his or her or its ultimate worth to the multiverse.
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Date: 2004-08-12 09:14 pm (UTC)1. My favorite film in the Alien series is:
PZB: I've only seen the first one. It was OK.
2. My favorite Cure album is:
PZB: The Top, but I don't know if I'll ever listen to it, or any Cure, again. For me, they are a relic of a time I'm glad I lived through but don't want to reexperience, and music tends to make me reexperience things vividly.
3. My favorite David Bowie album is:
PZB: Hunky Dory
4. My favorite film in the Matrix series is:
PZB: I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't seen any of them, even though I wrote a story for their website. (I did read the script of the first one.)
5. My favorite film in the Star Wars series is:
PZB: Star Wars
6. Complete this sentence: "Tofu is [ ]."
An excellent sponge for flavor in the hands of a cook who knows how to use it. Usually it's nasty, but if you ever see pork with tofu and kimchee on the menu in a Korean restaurant, order that shit.
7. My favorite Ridley Scott film is:
PZB: I'm too ignorant of his career to have any idea. Heretically, I disliked Blade Runner.
8. My favorite John Carpenter film is:
PZB: The Thing
9. I first had sex at age:
PZB: 17
10. My favorite season is [winter, spring, summer, or fall]:
PZB: Fall
11. The Fifth Element and Dark City were two of the most brilliant sf films of the '90s (agree or disagree):
PZB: Haven't seen either one. (Is there a pattern developing here?)
12: Farscape or Stargate: SG-1 (you have to choose one or the other):
PZB: Farscape. I haven't actually seen it, but I figure anything that makes Cait develop an entire alternate persona must be some pretty powerful entertainment.
13: I first had sex with another person at age:
PZB: 17
14: My favorite Kate Bush album is:
PZB: Never could stand her
15: My favorite H. P. Lovecraft story/novella is:
PZB: "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"
16: Favorite Tim Burton film:
PZB: Oh, jeez, I don't know. Mostly he gets on my nerves. I shouldn't be filling this out if I'm just going to be so poorly informed and hateful, I guess. Mostly I just wanted to say the thing about tofu, which many people don't realize can be something beyond hippie crap.
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Date: 2004-08-13 07:27 pm (UTC)One of us, one of us, one of us ...
Though I figured you had at least some fondness for "Star Wars," seeing as G-Man has made highly entertaining SW references in both books. Is this a running thing that continues in PRIME?