Author: Don

• 07:09 Day 11 #homealone. Place is wrecked but not ‘cos I’ve been a slob! Damn closet I’ve been working on is like the TARDIS. #
• 09:16 On page 195 of 272 of Black Glass: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler. "The Black Fairy’s Curse" is a fairy tale retelling worthy of Angela Cart… #
• 10:11 RT @raebryant Fantasy Magazine’s Micro-Fiction Contest: And the Winners are . . . www.fantasy-magazine.com [Congrats to the winners!!] #
• 10:13 Might not have won, but it was well worth it to be able to put "published in @fantasymagazine" in future story cover letters! 😀 #
• 12:06 Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. RT @Danchaon Evil Kermit: early Jim Henson stuff. bit.ly/UWwoy #
• 13:59 Having a caffeine-proof headache & so do some coworkers. They say it’s the low pressure front moving in. Probably Agent Orange or somesuch. #
• 14:51 Which Fantasy Writer Are You? China Miéville: 7 High-Brow, 39 Violent, -5 Experimental and -7 Cynical! Woohoo!! bit.ly/qYmrd #
• 16:04 Hot Chicks with Stormtroopers. ‘Nuff said. www.hotchickswithstormtroopers.com/ #
• 17:48 Eventually, I’ll have lived in this college town long enough *not* to be too bummed saying goodbye to the students I get to know. #
• 18:45 Hey, I look up song lyrics at work too, but damn. Isn’t STS-127 due to launch soon? bit.ly/uGPOj #blog #
• 18:56 RT @charlesatan "The Future of Publishing" (podcast) Gavin Grant, Jennifer Jackson, Robert Miller, Bob Stein bit.ly/YFEk8 #
• 19:10 This #wip should’ve been in the can ages ago, but the ending still isn’t reading the way I want it to yet :(. #
• 22:02 Was gonna sleep but I just can’t resist EASTENDERS. #

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• 07:35 Day 10 #homealone. Day off work. So WTH am I doing up at this hour? 🙂 #
• 08:31 RT @drmabuse RT @CollectedMisc AP: Tough times trigger rush to romance novels tinyurl.com/npm4vj #
• 08:39 I want to read: Monterra’s Deliciosa & Other Tales & by Anna Tambour – tinyurl.com/ngvdmj #
• 08:57 RT @PasteMagazine Six Gateway Jazz Albums for Rock Elitists tr.im/nM1E #
• 09:05 Always embarassed to be seen in one coffee shop by an employee of another one I frequent. Feel like I’ve been busted by CHEATERS. #
• 09:18 On page 190 of 272 of Black Glass: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler. "Lily Red" starts slow but ends up an engrossing character study. 5* #
• 09:44 "But today the way I play the game has got to change" #lyrics #musicmonday ♫ blip.fm/~7ui0a #
• 12:03 Immensely enjoying my day off, but it’s time to get stuff done! Rar!! #
• 15:09 Poking my head up for air from a closet that’s needed to be cleaned out for *years*. I do’wanna go back but I gotta! 🙁 #
• 16:08 RT @goodreads Great article by a Goodreads Author: "Using Goodreads Effectively to Promote Your Books" bit.ly/Dtrjb #
• 19:26 Low Hanging Content (Are You Working Too Hard To Find Material When It’s Right In Front of Your Face?) bit.ly/bEZ4K #
• 22:42 Switched up the template a bit on the website. Looks kinda Tumblr-ish, now. www.warmfuzzyfreudianslippers.com #

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• 08:39 Day 9 #homealone. Once again, I stayed up too late watching BLEACH last nite. Groggily planning the 2nd day of my 3-day weekend! #
• 09:18 Uh-oh. French Open tennis–guess what I’m doing this morning. ‘S ok, I’ve written in front of the TV before :). #
• 09:34 Writing during the French Open is 1 thing. Cooking, not so good–put too much garlic powder in the eggs :(. #
• 09:46 I wanted Federer to win his first French Open too, but not in a cakewalk. #
• 09:50 Dude stormed the court & got tackled! If he got as close to me as he did to Federer, I’d have taken my racket to his head. #
• 10:54 At least Soderling is making a better show of it than Federer did vs. Nadal last year. #frenchopen #
• 12:28 Man, I /frakked/ up my website template. And I just don’t feel like fixing it right now 🙁 #
• 13:05 Taking deep breaths. Not in the best mood right now. Gonna head out with some books and just read. #
• 14:04 Of course the 1 time I hope to score a comfy chair at the cafe, all I can get is the writing spot I want 99% of the time. Story o’ my day. #
• 14:22 Making myself feel better by jamming to Toto, slamming coffee, and ruthlessly unfollowing to improve Twitter signal/noise ratio. #
• 14:27 Paying my misery forward 😉 RT @TaraBusch RT @quttinirpaaq bit.ly/10duvg behold the teeth gnashing horror of John Parr…. #
• 14:52 @AWDawno Totally agree! You’re the last person I’d unfollow :D. #
• 14:53 I diss John Paar but I’m publically jamming to this song hehe. bit.ly/eIdZP #
• 15:34 Watching a 10 mo. old baby (playfully) slap her grandpa around. He’s loving every minute of it. #charsketch #
• 16:41 I think I’ve regained equilibrium. Once I get dinner, I’ll be able to start the office reorg project interrupted by French Open. I think. 🙂 #

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• 09:52 Day 8 #homealone. Planned to skip the usu early AM Farmer’s Market trip; did *not* plan to sleep in xtra 2 hours. #
• 09:57 I want to read: MY DATE WITH SATAN: Stories by Stacey Richter – tinyurl.com/qplz6s #
• 10:03 Remembering when I was out & about all last weekend, I’m tempted to just be a writing hermit this weekend. But, oh, the sun… #
• 11:41 Writing interrupted by French Open tennis. 🙁 #
• 14:05 Forced myself out of the house and into the sunshine. Getting recaffeinated. Writing will resume shortly. #
• 15:26 I’m not leaving this coffee shop until I get this damn rewrite done! #wip #
• 15:26 "I think I know what I’m doing/ But I haven’t been doing it right." #lyrics (Re: my struggle rewriting the end of the current #wip.) #
• 16:03 "If I’m doing my job/ It’s your resolve that breaks." bit.ly/TvTpP #lyrics #blog #
• 16:35 OMFG, I think I’m done! Gonna let this story cool off and do some market R&D in the meantime. #wip #
• 16:39 Guess this means I can leave the coffee shop, now 🙂 #
• 19:27 Catching up on podcasts, piping them from my netbook into my stereo. #
• 20:00 Ha! A #fb friend "fervently believes that romance writers need to return the vampires they borrowed from the horror writers ASAP." #
• 21:30 Wow! To think I took an econ course in 1 building & across campus another prof was teaching the opposite material bit.ly/199kLp #

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• 07:06 Day 7 #homealone. It took me until last nite to succumb to carryout dinner 🙂 #
• 07:09 On page 154 of 272 of Black Glass: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler. "The Faithful Companion at Forty" is so full of win!! 5* #
• 08:11 On page 172 of 272 of Black Glass: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler. "The Brew" is very rich, dense, and multi-layered. 5* #
• 09:43 Scored myself a 3-day weekend!! ‘Cos I could. More time to submit stories to get rejected. #
• 10:26 #followfriday The folks who let me play in their microfic contest sandbox bit.ly/HCIip – @fantasymagazine @raebryant @catrambo 😉 #
• 11:34 Wasted rewrite time looking thru previous drafts for a paragraph I simply moved to another place in the current one. #writerfail #
• 13:56 Local radio station playing our Miles Davis request: "Orange" from the AURA album (our 2nd choice, tho) 😉 #
• 16:26 Had to say bye to a couple of coworkers, one for the summer and one for good :(. Sadness. #
• 16:28 About to do a jailbreak from the dayjob. #

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• 07:21 On page 143 of 272 of Black Glass: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler. "Duplicity" is beautiful and quite disturbing. 5* #
• 08:44 20 years. Rly. RT @nytimes Police Swarm Tiananmen Square to Bar Protests bit.ly/vKO89 #
• 08:51 Day 6 #homealone. Gonna make home the PM writing spot today, I think. 🙂 #
• 09:47 RT @raebryant Fantasy Magazine: vote for your favorite micro-fiction: “…Enjoyable…fun…vivid…well written…” bit.ly/jl6xP #
• 09:57 bit.ly/W8aJY RIP David Carradine 🙁 #
• 10:11 Yikes–story rejected in 14 hours! Eh well, on to the next. #
• 10:47 Story that was rejected after 14 hours is now back out 35 min. later! =) #
• 12:08 Itching to go to lunch so I can finish rewriting another #wip. Gonna be a submission fool this month!! #
• 12:26 RT @Danchaon 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists a2a.me/BiN via @AddToAny #
• 14:50 Brought my order to the chaos of our dept’s corner of the center’s intranet! #
• 16:43 Skipping out on the after-work office party tonite. Means I gotta sneak out the back. Shhhh. #
• 16:43 My nite was already spoken for: #wip rewrites and the season premiere of BURN NOTICE. #
• 19:56 RT @fantasymagazine Can you help me find this kind of sample contract? catrambo.livejournal.com/237062.html #
• 20:15 Bruce Campbell, King Of The B Movie from @totn bit.ly/f7FVn #

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• 10:17 Day 5 #homealone. Still have not resorted to eating canned food. Probably tomorrow, tho. #
• 10:20 If I was still in OH:RT @PasteMagazine Columbus, Ohio: Come out to the #savepaste benefit show 9pm on 6/4 at @wild_goose.bit.ly/fk6iA #
• 10:46 Feeling upper back/shoulder pain, but can’t seem to find any kind of knot. Should I be worried…? #
• 11:09 The 2009 Lifehacker Pack of essential free Win downloads is out bit.ly/SOcPv #
• 11:14 Sweet! RT @absoluteWrite Just wanted ya’ll to understand. So if I’m twittering 80s lyrics for the next few days, you’ll all understand why. #
• 11:26 @AbsoluteWrite What could be more cultured than "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo? #
• 11:33 @AWDawno @AbsoluteWrite Tho I used to get freaked out when the guy’s face would come out of the pot of beans. bit.ly/gcOsv #
• 11:41 @AWDawno Lita Ford: "I went to a party last Saturday nite/ I didn’t get laid, I got in a fight/ Uh-huh, it ain’t no big thing." #lyrics #
• 11:42 Jeezus H.–I just dated myself, didn’t I? #
• 11:59 @AWDawno @AbsoluteWrite How about I do that Morris Day & the Time "Jungle Love" dance? 🙂 #
• 12:07 @AWDawno @AbsoluteWrite "Come on baby, where’s your guts? U wanna make love or what? Oh-we-oh-we-oh!" #lyrics #
• 12:11 @AbsoluteWrite zomg you read my mind!! I’ll listen to *anyone* sing a Jim Steinman song, even Celine Dion 😉 #
• 12:59 Lunchtime story editing 80s playlist: CHICAGO 16 & CHICAGO 17. #wip #
• 14:56 Check out Bruce Holland Rogers’ column in Flash Fiction Online–even more brilliant than usu this month, IMO bit.ly/BHtpv #
• 17:41 At the PM writing spot. Dunno what’s in this coffee but I feel like I’ve been hit by The Quickening from HIGHLANDER. No complaints, tho. #
• 17:50 Rewriting playlist: greatest hits by REO Speedwagon and Night Ranger #
• 17:55 Left USB drive at. Frakking. Work. *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk* #
• 17:59 Wait–no I didn’t! Slipped it into the wrong pocket!! Yay! #
• 18:34 Would *love* to submit a story right now but the WiFi at the cafe’s being wonky right now 🙁 #
• 19:26 On page 127 of 272 of Black Glass: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler. "Letters from Home" is a clinic on how to weave historical detail into a … #
• 19:33 RT @fantasymagazine RIP David #Eddings 🙁 Read Jason Heller’s appreciation of this #fantasy author – bit.ly/14jTLt #
• 20:09 Another story submitted! Fingers crossed. Now, as the Ghost Hunters say, "On to the next." #

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