Caitlín R. Kiernan (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
greygirlbeast) wrote2011-04-04 01:47 pm
greygirlbeast) wrote2011-04-04 01:47 pm
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"Gather up the lost and sold."
Rainy and cold here in Providence. The sky is the color of the way I feel.
Comments always welcomed, especially on Mondays.
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To-do list for April (with three days already behind me):
1. Story for Dark Horse (TBA)
2. Story for sf anthology (TBA)
3. Sirenia Digest #65
4. All that other stuff.
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Yesterday, I pulled the manuscript for The Drowning Girl out again and added a new page of text to the "epilogue." It's not actually a conventional epilogue; it's a section at the end called "Back Pages" which contains various oddments and loose threads, after which I(mp) typed THE END. Then I rewrote and expanded a portion of pages of 281 and 282. And then I read aloud to myself the section of the novel which I think of as 7, though I think the actual title of that section is:
7/7/7/7
7/7
7
seven
7
7/7
7/7/7/7
Then I read aloud to myself all of "Random Notes Before a Fatal Crash," and I made a great deal more line edits than I'd have expected would be necessary.
Today will be spent pulling together Sirenia Digest #64, in hopes that I can get it out to subscribers this evening. I have Vince's illustration, which I'm very pleased with.
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A preview of the photos taken by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kylecassidy on Saturday. This is undoubtedly the best photograph anyone's taken of me since...2003, I think. The creature behind me is Kronosaurus queenslandicus, a gigantic short-necked plesiosaur from Australia.
Dr. Caitlín R. Kiernan, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology & Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology*
Photograph Copyright © 2011 by Kyle Cassidy
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The evening was spent with roast turkey, recreational Vicodin use, and more Californication re-watching, and then, late (or early), because I couldn't sleep, Rift on Spooky's laptop. I played my Eth warrior, Indus. I think I got to bed about 4:00 ayem. There were elaborate, apocalyptic nightmares I thankfully can't now recall. I think the only time I actually sleep restfully these days is when I doze off in the car or take very short naps directly after work. Oh, also last night, lots of listening to the new Radiohead, The King of Limbs, which is, as expected, brilliant. Thanks, Steven.
Now, time to edit and format, and also write a prolegomenon.
Probably the Last Martian,
Aunt Beast
* A little wishful thinking never hurt anyone.
Comments always welcomed, especially on Mondays.
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To-do list for April (with three days already behind me):
1. Story for Dark Horse (TBA)
2. Story for sf anthology (TBA)
3. Sirenia Digest #65
4. All that other stuff.
---
Yesterday, I pulled the manuscript for The Drowning Girl out again and added a new page of text to the "epilogue." It's not actually a conventional epilogue; it's a section at the end called "Back Pages" which contains various oddments and loose threads, after which I(mp) typed THE END. Then I rewrote and expanded a portion of pages of 281 and 282. And then I read aloud to myself the section of the novel which I think of as 7, though I think the actual title of that section is:
7/7
7
seven
7
7/7
7/7/7/7
Then I read aloud to myself all of "Random Notes Before a Fatal Crash," and I made a great deal more line edits than I'd have expected would be necessary.
Today will be spent pulling together Sirenia Digest #64, in hopes that I can get it out to subscribers this evening. I have Vince's illustration, which I'm very pleased with.
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A preview of the photos taken by
kylecassidy on Saturday. This is undoubtedly the best photograph anyone's taken of me since...2003, I think. The creature behind me is Kronosaurus queenslandicus, a gigantic short-necked plesiosaur from Australia.Dr. Caitlín R. Kiernan, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology & Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology*
Photograph Copyright © 2011 by Kyle Cassidy
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The evening was spent with roast turkey, recreational Vicodin use, and more Californication re-watching, and then, late (or early), because I couldn't sleep, Rift on Spooky's laptop. I played my Eth warrior, Indus. I think I got to bed about 4:00 ayem. There were elaborate, apocalyptic nightmares I thankfully can't now recall. I think the only time I actually sleep restfully these days is when I doze off in the car or take very short naps directly after work. Oh, also last night, lots of listening to the new Radiohead, The King of Limbs, which is, as expected, brilliant. Thanks, Steven.
Now, time to edit and format, and also write a prolegomenon.
Probably the Last Martian,
Aunt Beast
* A little wishful thinking never hurt anyone.
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t's also nice to see a picture of you when you're not tired.
Actually...I'd not slept but about two hours the night before. I was very much exhausted. If it looks like I'm not, that a combination of Kyle's skills and Spooky's makeup.
are any fossils you helped excavate on display?
In Birmingham and probably also Boulder, but nowhere in the NE.
Stored and studied?
Very many hundreds, Maybe thousands.
Waiting to be studied?
Hopefully. They're in many collections.
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This is just one of those odd occurrences but earlier today a friend reminded me of a song by Emmy Lou Harris, 'Boulder to Birmingham.' April 2nd was Emmy Lou's 64th birthday and we were revisiting memories from our past.
I did a double take when I read your comment on the locations of displays of your fossils and laughed at the coincidence.
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'Boulder to Birmingham.'
I used to sort of live that song, always hoping back and forth between the two.