Showing posts with label The Thing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Thing. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2009

workin' hard or hardly workin'?


That is for me to know and you probably never to find out, unless I ever finish The Thing, in which case I will use this as my author photo. Because my feet don't look too heinous in it -- I actually got a pedicure last week at Excellent Nails by Trang. But those sweatpants are hiding some frighteningly pale legs. When I sat down in the massage chair for my pedi, Trang pointed at my legs and said, "You no tan!" and then laughed hysterically while she ran the foot bath. I considered getting back at her by stealing the huge cinnamon-crumble-topped muffin from the shrine to Buddha that sat on the floor, but decided Buddha should not have to suffer for Trang's cruel sense of humor.

By the way, did you know Buddha is a smoker? In addition to incense and a massive muffin, he'd been offered several cigarettes. If I had a household shrine, I would offer Buddha a slice of peanut butter toast, a glass of pink wine, and a laptop, and all I would ask in exchange is that he smite Trang and finish writing this stupid novel.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

westward ho

Who're you callin' a ho?

I'm headed to Colorado today, where I'll be spending a month at a former convent in the sex change capital of the world. I hope to come home with a finished draft of The Thing; if that doesn't work out, I may return a male nun. One way or the other, I plan to update GFD while I'm away, though perhaps not for the next day or two, depending on whether I can figure out how to post from my phone. Chris claims it's as easy as putting a stamp on an envelope.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

today's midmorning-snack replacement


It's delicious and all, but this bitch is a little high maintenance, what with the peeling and the pith removal. (I could cut it in half and eat it with a sharp-toothed spoon, but that reeks of diet to me, and I. Do. Not. Diet.) I need to be able to get up from my desk, walk to the kitchen, grab my midmorning snack, and return to my desk.

Because I'm a busy woman: I have The Thing to procrastinate writing, and hours and hours of aimless internet surfing to do EVERY DAY. Who has time to peel a grapefruit?

Monday, March 9, 2009

the one beautiful thing vs. The Thing

I was recently rereading The Seas, by Samantha Hunt, in the hopes that it would provoke some kind of breakthrough with The Thing I'm writing (you know, the thing I started in graduate school FIVE YEARS AGO), but instead I was inspired to further procrastinate by posting here this line from The Seas: "...that is how a small northern town in America works. It enlists one beautiful thing like the ocean or the mountains or the snow to keep people stuck and stagnant and staring out to sea forever." Uh oh.

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December


Images downloaded from here in 1996.