Thursday was Headache Day

[greygirlbeast]

I got absolutely nothing done yesterday. Nothing. A headache started late on Wednesday night, and by yesterday morning was a full-blown migraine. There was not even the hope of writing. I spent much of the day in bed, delirious, dozing, nauseous, and all that fun crap. Finally, very late last night, it backed off. I didn't have to use the power drill.

The month is falling away, and I'm not even sure I've got a decent beginning to my Mars story. I still have that to get written, and Sirenia Digest #47, and something proposal-like for Penguin on the next novel. So, yeah, three stories in twenty-three days. Still feasible, but only just, especially given that I'll be in Manhattan on the 27th, and have the Brown University reading on the 24th. And two interviews. I think I'm about forty-eight hours from panic. I can't panic, of course, because then I'll squander what time I have left. It all has to get done, period.

At least I have managed to get The Ammonite Violin & Others to subpress. Oh, and I have an announcement. The cover art and end papers will be done by Richard A. Kirk, the first time we've gotten to work together since he did the illustration for "Salammbô Redux" for the 3rd edition of Tales of Pain and Wonder.

And speaking of Manhattan on the 27th, I've just gotten word that the launch party/reading/signing for Ellen Datlow's Lovecraft Unbound will be held at the Soho Gallery of Digital Art at 138 Sullivan Street on the 27th (a Tuesday) at 7 p.m., with doors open to the public at 6:30. I'll be there, along with Elizabeth Bear, Michael Cisco, and Richard Bowes.

This is one of those days I just want the world to end. Sorry, but it needed to be said.

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

One thing I have found reading your posts is a greater understanding of my own lost days, the days when nothing can be done, nothing will be done, and the rage that inspires. I know it's little consolation for either of us, but for me it has been greater than zero, in a situation where zero is what I have come to expect, so, thank you.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

There's just too much work, and I'm falling behind...

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

That saying about (if p) being placed on earth to accomplish a certain number of things and (then q) never dying also applies here.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

That saying about (if p) being placed on earth to accomplish a certain number of things and (then q) never dying also applies here.

I don't believe I've heard this saying.

At any rate, it sounds irrelevant to my situation..

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

If I was put on earth to accomplish a certain number of things, then right now, I am so far behind I will never die.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

If I was put on earth to accomplish a certain number of things, then right now, I am so far behind I will never die.

Now that's some sick shit....

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

I get "lost days" through insomnia. They suck, and I'm sorry you get them too. I hope you're feeling better later in the month because I'm looking forward to hearing you read.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I hope you're feeling better later in the month because I'm looking forward to hearing you read.

And I'm looking forward to being in NYC again.

Yay Richard Kirk!

[sa-jathan.livejournal.com]

One must love his work or be a tasteless, gibbering fool. I am so looking forward to this.

[sovay]

The cover art and end papers will be done by Richard A. Kirk, the first time we've gotten to work together since he did the illustration for "Salammbô Redux" for the 3rd edition of Tales of Pain and Wonder.

Awesome.

Otherwise, what I have to offer is Mission of Burma:

'Cause I'll just change when the water
Glitters in the sun
Glittering in the sun after the rain
—"After the Rain"

I often wonder what I'm really worth
I wonder
But I won't take shit from you or anyone else
—"So Fuck It"

Lovecraft Unbound

[captaincurt81.livejournal.com]

Just got my copy of Ellen Datlows' Lovecraft Unbound and was struck by the photo of Lovecraft on the cover. Have you ever noticed the resemblance of the young author to Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps?

[tinkbell.livejournal.com]

Hello -

Do you have a flyer for the Brown reading? If JP Reader is involved somehow in that (it's a longshot, but possible), then I could get some from him, and pass them around a bit.

Cybele