The manuscript
Jan. 12th, 2008 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanDavid took this photograph while the second copy of the manuscript of Going North was being printed. I was much too focused and flustered to think of asking for a photo, but he is always good at knowing when there should be one. I'd meant to link to it earlier, but my brain is not yet grown back.
People in California, please don't hurt me. I flew out there on January 2nd to see Eric and didn't tell anybody. I was seriously brain-dead. We had an exceptionally lovely visit, despite three winter storms. We saw new birds (black turnstones! white-crowned sparrows! more than one spotted sandpiper!). We also saw whimbrels, first at Moss Beach and then a single one at Oyster Point. After we had walked a considerable distance, we were looking at some nice clown-faced surf scoters with the binoculars, and a pleasant elderly couple came up and asked us what we were seeing. We reeled off some names of birds, and they told us that they had seen an egret and an ibis. Eric very tactfully suggested that they had seen the whimbril, since it has a curved bill. We were particularly delighted with this misidentification. Another fine thing was that we looked at the same beach just before, just after, and at low, low tide a little longer after, the various storms. We went to a movie together, only the two of us -- we'd never done that. We ate a lot of sushi, including splendid vegetarian sushi. It was exactly what I needed. I am extremely, extremely fortunate in my sweeties. I'll try to be more sociable the next time.
Oh, right, the link.
http://dd-b.net/cgi-bin/picpage.pl/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/2008/01xxx-misc?pic=ddb%2020080101%20010-001
Brain still growing back. I am mostly caught up on LJ, though I haven't said much and am not sure how much information I actually retained. My regards to all.
Pamela
People in California, please don't hurt me. I flew out there on January 2nd to see Eric and didn't tell anybody. I was seriously brain-dead. We had an exceptionally lovely visit, despite three winter storms. We saw new birds (black turnstones! white-crowned sparrows! more than one spotted sandpiper!). We also saw whimbrels, first at Moss Beach and then a single one at Oyster Point. After we had walked a considerable distance, we were looking at some nice clown-faced surf scoters with the binoculars, and a pleasant elderly couple came up and asked us what we were seeing. We reeled off some names of birds, and they told us that they had seen an egret and an ibis. Eric very tactfully suggested that they had seen the whimbril, since it has a curved bill. We were particularly delighted with this misidentification. Another fine thing was that we looked at the same beach just before, just after, and at low, low tide a little longer after, the various storms. We went to a movie together, only the two of us -- we'd never done that. We ate a lot of sushi, including splendid vegetarian sushi. It was exactly what I needed. I am extremely, extremely fortunate in my sweeties. I'll try to be more sociable the next time.
Oh, right, the link.
http://dd-b.net/cgi-bin/picpage.pl/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/2008/01xxx-misc?pic=ddb%2020080101%20010-001
Brain still growing back. I am mostly caught up on LJ, though I haven't said much and am not sure how much information I actually retained. My regards to all.
Pamela
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Date: 2008-01-12 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-12 06:00 pm (UTC)It took me three years to type that much, although far TOO much of it was done in the last four to six months.
I avoided RSI, though, so I must have done it right.
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:01 pm (UTC)I'm feeling very tender about it now that it has an ending (which I only thought of in its details about a week before I wrote it), but I'm sure that corpse-dancing will seem Just the Thing after I'm done with revising it.
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:01 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:02 pm (UTC)I was absolutely giddy.
It's a lot of stuff. I hope it's good. Well, I can make it gooder, anyway.
P.
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-12 06:08 pm (UTC)Huzzah! ~hat in air~
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-12 07:13 pm (UTC)P.
The cosmically unfair part of the reader/writer relationship
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:29 pm (UTC)B
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:36 pm (UTC)It's kind of good that you weren't done while I was in Minnesota and there was no coffee...My Minneapolis visit this time turned into a bit of a four-handed charlie foxtrot there at the end, as you may or may not have seen on my LJ, so I'm just as glad that I don't have That Whole Thing Ohmygods hanging over meeting you.
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:42 pm (UTC)Oh, and -
Not just you. A white-crowned sparrow showed up in Norfolk this week; my friend Ann Cleeves (http://www.anncleeves.com/) didn't make my birthday party, because first she had to ferry her husband off to meet up with his mates who were travelling down to see it, and then she had to take her daughter to the hospital, on account of her being in labour and all. Ah, priorities...
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:42 pm (UTC)(I try not to think about how many people in Boston I've been not-calling when I'm there; this may be an occupational hazard of long-distance relationships.)
Excellent!
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:50 pm (UTC)huzzah!
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-12 08:19 pm (UTC)As for California, just because we love to see you does not mean you owe it to us!
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Date: 2008-01-12 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-01-12 09:21 pm (UTC)Huzzah!
Date: 2008-01-12 10:47 pm (UTC)And my goodness is your husband talented!
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Date: 2008-01-12 11:06 pm (UTC)And, congratulations!
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Date: 2008-01-12 11:13 pm (UTC)(well, yes, I know it will take a little while to get from this point to the point where I get to buy my very own copy, but this is definitely still cause for celebration)
Time to reread The Dubious Hills and The Secret Country trilogy in anticipation...
love
Catherine
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Date: 2008-01-13 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-01-13 12:25 am (UTC)Book!
(It's past midnight here and I am not very coherent)
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Date: 2008-01-13 01:26 am (UTC)