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My last scene for Spiders is done! Well, it needs fine-tuning, but a bad first draft is 90% of the way to a final story. I feel so relieved. Or I would if I didn't have weird sinus problems. So this will be a self-indulgent entry.
What's next? Another twisted Clark/Lex, and (shudder) a long, plotty Martha/Lex, which is going to be good, dammit, if almost entirely unread. And I will finish Ruat Caelum.
I haven't made a holiday wishlist in years, but I've got one now. I'd really like to get Dan Savage's "Skipping Towards Gomorrah," Marjorie Garber's "Quotation Marks," and one or both of Terry Pratchett's "Science of Discworld" books. Also a poster of MR as Lex for my office, or, failing that, an action figure to go with Spike, Mulder, Scully and the corpse. I swear, every time I think I'm twisted, I realize that someone at Todd McFarlane toys is much, much worse; I never would have thought of putting a corpse (& its gurney) with a Scully action figure. Students seem bemused by my collection, though what gets their attention more is the roughly 50 empty Diet Coke cans sitting on my desk.
I've been buying more music I heard on Launch. In fact, I bought Shades Apart's "Sonic Boom" solely because the song "Three Wishes" made me think of SV. Oh, the shame. But the song's got a meteor shower! And a castle in which "every room is winter"! Actually, I like that last phrase independently, but it wouldn't have been enough without the meteor shower and the castle. And yes, I know it's not a castle, but once you've changed the laws of physics the niceties of architecture are less than a formality. I also bought the eponymous disc by Pretty & Twisted, for $0.25 plus postage, mostly for the song "Souvenir." Tori fans might like it. I have most of my pre-NYC CDs in boxes in the closet, but Half.com is letting me cheaply add stacks of new ones, at least until my hard drive fills up.
I even have the topic for my next article, "The First Amendment Turn in Intellectual Property Law." I don't really want to write it now, but that's pretty much what they pay me for (and grading exams), and it is a good topic about which I have non-mainstream things to say. Once I get into it, I'll work on it for 10 straight hours at a time. The only way I know how to get things done is obsessively.
What's next? Another twisted Clark/Lex, and (shudder) a long, plotty Martha/Lex, which is going to be good, dammit, if almost entirely unread. And I will finish Ruat Caelum.
I haven't made a holiday wishlist in years, but I've got one now. I'd really like to get Dan Savage's "Skipping Towards Gomorrah," Marjorie Garber's "Quotation Marks," and one or both of Terry Pratchett's "Science of Discworld" books. Also a poster of MR as Lex for my office, or, failing that, an action figure to go with Spike, Mulder, Scully and the corpse. I swear, every time I think I'm twisted, I realize that someone at Todd McFarlane toys is much, much worse; I never would have thought of putting a corpse (& its gurney) with a Scully action figure. Students seem bemused by my collection, though what gets their attention more is the roughly 50 empty Diet Coke cans sitting on my desk.
I've been buying more music I heard on Launch. In fact, I bought Shades Apart's "Sonic Boom" solely because the song "Three Wishes" made me think of SV. Oh, the shame. But the song's got a meteor shower! And a castle in which "every room is winter"! Actually, I like that last phrase independently, but it wouldn't have been enough without the meteor shower and the castle. And yes, I know it's not a castle, but once you've changed the laws of physics the niceties of architecture are less than a formality. I also bought the eponymous disc by Pretty & Twisted, for $0.25 plus postage, mostly for the song "Souvenir." Tori fans might like it. I have most of my pre-NYC CDs in boxes in the closet, but Half.com is letting me cheaply add stacks of new ones, at least until my hard drive fills up.
I even have the topic for my next article, "The First Amendment Turn in Intellectual Property Law." I don't really want to write it now, but that's pretty much what they pay me for (and grading exams), and it is a good topic about which I have non-mainstream things to say. Once I get into it, I'll work on it for 10 straight hours at a time. The only way I know how to get things done is obsessively.
