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• 09:01 Looking at yesterday’s 1.1k words. Need at least one scene more for crit group today. #wip #
• 09:27 Last min crit-group writing playlist: my British Blue-Eyed Soul station on Pandora. #
• 09:50 Vid of last nite’s @sufferjets bout. Man, that was fun! www.vimeo.com/5359976 #
• 16:34 Back from biweekly crit group evisceration. Painful but badly-needed feedback, as usual. Blow-by-blow to come…. #
• 16:42 W00t!! Since everything’s signed and official, I can announce this: bit.ly/f5peK #blog #
• 19:18 Leave my Google Reader alone for 2 days and I’ve got 350+ unread items?? Oh, hell no. Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut…. #
• 19:19 Time to finish cleaning out office closet. The one I made the mistake of telling gay coworkers about. /Still/ haven’t heard the end of it. #
• 19:27 Closet Cleaning/Going In/Coming Out Playlist: Cole Porter–no, I mean CHICAGO XXXII:STONE OF SISYPHUS. #
• 21:10 Closet-cleaning experience: "Or I stumble through the doorway to space and time." #lyrics bit.ly/vv4YN #

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• 08:23 On page 15 of 256 of We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle. 1/2way thru "Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel." Usu don’t… #
• 08:28 Going to @ithacamarket this morning. Haven’t been in weeks. Miss the food & the people-watching. My stories need characters ;). #
• 10:29 Can actually see spots of blue sky here @ithacamarket! And the people-watching hasn’t disappointed ;). #
• 12:33 When we’re not crucifying ourselves on Easter: RT @melvingibbs Filipino prisoners reprise cellblock ‘Thriller’ dance… bit.ly/a1hMP #
• 12:41 Accomplished a few non-writing tasks this AM: @ithacamarket, haircut, shopping, & found missing cell. #
• 12:43 Wimbledon distracting me from the writing I need to get done before watching @sufferjets tonite. 🙁 #
• 14:10 OK, I gotta get out of here if I’m gonna get writing done. Can’t afford to be this absorbed in Wimbledon–it’s only the 3rd round!! #
• 14:40 Good news: scored table w/outlet at cafe. Bad news: wifi enables me to listen to Radio Wimbledon. #
• 14:44 You heard ’em, folks! RT @sufferjets @DonP uh oh…better get some writing done so you can come to the game tonight! #
• 15:29 Was working at a good clip until the drama at the Ferrero/Gonzalez match. Hawkeye taken out of service. #wimbledon #
• 15:45 Ferrero wins after a double-fault. I can get back to work, now :). #wimbledon #
• 16:05 @Catrambo My pleasure :). #
• 16:06 RT @Catrambo I have been videocast! blip.tv/file/2290230 #
• 16:07 Pasting the last week’s worth of #wip puke drafting together to see what sort of Frankenstein’s Monster results. #
• 17:07 I’m #reading 2033: Future of Misbehavior by Nerve.com – tinyurl.com/lm649o #
• 17:11 On page 14 of 200 of 2033: Future of Misbehavior by Nerve.com. Needed research material for current #wip! Serendipitous find at $5.99. #
• 18:14 RT @sfwa If you want to follow along, @brendacooper is tweeting the Locus Awards live. #
• 18:15 Unfortunately, I can’t follow along. I’m so close to finishing the first 1k words of the #wip. Then, dinner, then off to @sufferjets game! #
• 22:10 Had a total blast attending my first bout! RT @sufferjets 248 sufferjets 102 Ottawa #

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• 08:37 On page 103 of 400 of Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between by Bradford Morrow. Think I’m going to put this one on the back burner for a … #
• 09:00 Chastized my coworkers–there will be no #MichaelJackson songs sung in tribute around me. #
• 09:48 Control of the work CD player = Sugarman 3! 🙂 #
• 10:29 #followfriday Keeping me productive, as much as they can, anyway: @portableapps @TiddlyWiki @gtdguy #
• 10:47 Because I love circumventing The Man: Use Gmail Drafts to Mail Yourself Unallowed Files bit.ly/HWbph #
• 11:28 Some days at work, I feel like an air traffic controller. From 1981, all frustrated and stuff. 🙁 #
• 11:41 God, this was me last crit group. Probably the next one, too 🙂 RT @inkyelbows The Writing Critique: ow.ly/fV9L #
• 12:23 @ColleenLindsay I’m keeping such things at bay with Miles Davis’s version of "Human Nature." 😉 #
• 12:27 Turns out the 250+ words from last night will probably be the new intro to current #wip. #
• 13:30 Business about to pick up at work. Not in a good way. #
• 14:52 "A plastic face on satellite TV/ Says, ‘Life is filled with give & take’/ He’s takin’ & I’m givin/ So I dance" #lyrics bit.ly/xVlai #
• 14:55 RT @goodreads 5 more days to win a free copy of Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout bit.ly/6LdS0 #giveaway #
• 15:51 @inkyelbows You hit so close to home with that critique one, I couldn’t help it :D. #
• 17:38 Idea so nice, I’m tweeting it twice: RT @Lifehacker Use Gmail Drafts to Mail Yourself Unallowed Files tinyurl.com/mwves7 #
• 17:42 #followfriday Places kind enough to publish me online: @McSweeneysBooks @fantasymagazine @sixsentences #
• 18:16 Planning to go: RT @sufferjets Game tomorrow, can’t wait! It will be a great day for the SufferJets to Celebrate the Right to Roll! #
• 18:18 FTW: Short story contract in my email inbox! W00t!! #
• 21:40 RT @fantasymagazine #Fantasy #Magazine #editor @catrambo interviewed on the Novy Mirror blip.tv/file/2290230 #interviews #publishing #
• 21:40 Story contract signed and back out in the (e)mail!! Double w00t! #

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• 07:38 On page 97 of 400 of Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between by Bradford Morrow. 5* for China Mieville’s exerpt of THE CITY & THE CITY. Sli… #
• 07:42 I want to read: The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mys… by Joyce Carol Oates – tinyurl.com/lndbs6 #
• 07:54 E55th & Cedar=Memories! RT @WEWS Area Of Cleveland On Most Dangerous Neighborhood List www.newsnet5.com/station/19844389/detail.html #
• 09:07 Obviously, this recorded webinar I’m required to watch has my /full/ attention. :p #
• 09:13 RT @jdwcornell slashdot article on #CornellFAIL sensitive data loss is.gd/1cxvj #
• 10:01 You know those folks who stare out the rainy windows in ads for antidepressants? That’s what this dayjob webinar is doing to me. #
• 12:12 RT @tinytempest comics #racefail – JLA fans don’t deserve to have McDuffie writing for them. assholes. ow.ly/15G7xn #
• 12:24 Lunchtime writing plan: plotting & research. #wip #
• 14:52 Just heard how a friend got the #CornellFAIL email /after/ hearing about it on the radio! Lovely. #
• 14:54 Best resource I’ve found for the current #wip is @hplusmagazine! Finished reading all 3 issues. #
• 14:55 Overwhelmed myself w/online research for #wip. Solution: taking pen to paper to organize & mindmap. #gtd #
• 16:44 RT @gudmagazine RT @apexjason Apex Magazine coming out of hiatus: bit.ly/RRoMo #
• 17:52 Hi-tailed it home after work in the torrential rain. Might’ve been a little premature. Gonna get food & maybe head to the PM writng spot. #
• 17:55 100 Awesome Open Source Tools for Writers, Journalists, and Bloggers bit.ly/Jbgsw #
• 18:33 Thought the news about #michaeljackson broke Twitter for a second 🙁 #
• 21:16 Had to go back to dayjob for my forgotten USB drive and ended up writing somewhere w/no WiFi. Good news: +250 words! #wip #
• 21:26 Ending my nite with #BurnNotice :D. #

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• 07:25 On page 81 of 400 of Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between by Bradford Morrow. 3.5* for "Uranus" by Joyce Carol Oates. Smooth prose that … #
• 07:27 Writing goal for today: Get a puke draft started for last Saturday’s new story idea. #
• 10:48 Some fcking wizard at the day job lost a laptop w/my PERSONAL F’ING DATA on it!! Where can I lead the lynchmob? *fckinghategasm* #
• 10:52 God motherf’ing dammit! bit.ly/Vc2xh #
• 11:44 FAIL! "The computer…was stolen earlier this month, though University officials only became aware…late last week." bit.ly/A9U6R #
• 12:24 @Catrambo Lucky!! 🙂 #
• 12:27 Trying to put the dayjob’s Epic Fail behind me so I can concentrate on the #wip at lunch. *grrrHATE* #
• 13:17 240 words of puke draft at lunch!! Feel I’ve accomplilshed something today 🙂 #wip #
• 14:24 "Given the importance that Cornell places on data security, this is truly an unfortunate situation." Oh, ya THINK? bit.ly/3eBr8 #fail #
• 15:02 RT @adeniro On the blog: 10 Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions: tinyurl.com/klycsk #
• 16:43 Gonna aim for another 200+ words of puke draft after work. #wip #
• 17:48 Puke draft playlist: FOR ALL I CARE by The Bad Plus. Raw and disjointed, just like my thoughts about this #wip. #
• 18:41 Way short of tonite’s planned wordcount. But I am reviewing the *gasp* research I’ve collected for this #wip. (Research? WTF’s that? :)) #
• 19:23 Spat out 185 puke draft words. Trouble is, they were just unconnected bits of scenes. Still, better than nothing. #wip #
• 21:23 @JohnAnealio Just as impressive are their covers of "Chariots of Fire" and "How Deep Is Your Love" by the Bee Gees. #

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• 07:24 On page 71 of 400 of Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between by Bradford Morrow. Skipped JW McCormack’s "Poiuyt!" for now. Didn’t dig it. #
• 07:32 Task for the AM: Trim a 1000-word story down to 750 for a contest. bit.ly/y1hba #wip #
• 07:48 110 more words to cut. #wip #
• 09:25 Slowly getting the hang of the new scheduling system at the dayjob. Yes, instead of writing on the d/l *gasp* 🙂 #
• 09:47 RT @drmabuse J. Robert Lennon on how writers REALLY spend their time. tiny.cc/qtAWF #
• 11:11 Ooh, Wimbledon’s started! There goes my Sundays 😀 #
• 12:53 Did some cutting but still have 58 motherfkng words too many! nnnnNNGG!! #wip #
• 14:17 @Nat_alie_Jane Only have 19 more words, now =). #wip #
• 14:49 RT @sfwa Tangent Online returns to the web with short SF & F fiction reviews. bit.ly/Wyp7U #
• 16:07 Since last edit, I’ve only managed to cut 1 word. The slashing’s gonna go from my MS to my wrists in a second :p. #wip #
• 17:31 Cool thing about getting let out of work early–better chance of getting a table w/an outlet at the PM writing spot! #
• 17:33 The Cut 18 Words or Bust playlist: CHICAGO VI. And I ain’t leavin’ here ’til it’s done! #wip #
• 18:09 10 more words to cut. This is actually fckng painful!! #wip #
• 18:24 HA! Cut the damn #wip down to 744 words, including title, byline, etc. I’m ready for July’s contest! #
• 18:35 Seems listening to Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings enabled me to cut a few more words from the #wip :). #
• 22:02 #Eastenders!! My favorite part of Tuesday nites :). #

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• 07:08 Starting We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle. Between Charles de Lint’s introduction & the back cover, I can’t wait to star… #
• 07:50 Story edits have been returned. Am now waiting on the contract! *happydance* #
• 09:16 "I don’t mean to burst your bubble/ But the world’s got troubles worse than you." #90s #lyrics ♫ blip.fm/~8o5or #
• 09:37 Read Microeconomics by David Besanko – tinyurl.com/mm83v4 #
• 09:47 Leave OH for a few yrs & what happens? RT @gudmagazine Ohioans: Save your libraries! saveohiolibraries.com/?page_id=19 #librarians #
• 11:55 Ugh. Looks like I’m actually gonna have to do some research for my next short story. As if I don’t have more rewrites. Poor me, right? 🙂 #
• 13:49 RT @jdfreivald I forget whom I’m retweeting here, but NPR wants your #flash #fiction: bit.ly/17XsZg #
• 15:11 At my dayjob desk slowly watching the pieces of my new story come together in my head. Don’t have word 1 written yet, though. #wip #
• 16:25 @fantasymagazine Whoa!! Never knew you had taste like that! If you haven’t heard ’em yet, I’m sure you’ll like Antibalas, too. 🙂 #
• 16:35 @fantasymagazine has me in the mood for afro-funk now. Luckily, Budos Band & Daktaris are already on the mp3 player :). #musicmonday #
• 19:42 @fantasymagazine Respect! #

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• 07:27 On page 47 of 400 of Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between by Bradford Morrow. 5* for Stephen Marche’s "The Personasts." Great gonzo jour… #
• 07:30 twitpic.com/7zxyj – Adapting to the nonstop rain at yesterday’s party. #
• 07:31 twitpic.com/7zxzj – This (among many other bottles) also helped us cope. #
• 07:33 twitpic.com/7zy1l – Who dares to summon me from the flame! 😉 #
• 07:34 Time to get myself together & hit the road. Story edits to finish!! #
• 08:46 Departure time delayed for coffee, breakfast, & gossip! 😀 #
• 10:56 "Home Again!" Time to get some more coffee and finish those damn edits :). ♫ blip.fm/~8mf47 #
• 16:21 Must’ve partied too hard to do anything but sleep for the past 4 hrs. But I’m awake, at the mall bookstore, w/coffee and rarin’ to go! #
• 17:39 Rewrites accomplished! Gonna let them cool and send them back to the editor tomorrow. I’m gonna be published again soon *w00t*!! #
• 18:47 @JohnAnealio If by partying you mean finishing rewrites for an editor deadline with a dying netbook battery, then yes :). #
• 18:57 twitpic.com/81v0q – A small part of the damage we did to our friend’s yard at last nite’s party. heh. #
• 18:59 Oh, no no no–I’ve got 3 more pieces to rewrite & submit. I need yesterday’s new story idea to STFU! #

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• 08:03 On page 35 of 400 of Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between by Bradford Morrow. 3* for Ben Marcus’s "Secret Breathing Techniques" for subb… #
• 08:08 We’ve secretly replaced the sidebar link categories on my blog with the titles of Chicago songs. Eh, ‘cos I could. bit.ly/GHgET #
• 10:20 Must I really choose between overnite stay in Rochester w/friends vs finishing story edits for a deadline? *sigh* 🙁 #
• 10:25 Screw it, I’m doing both. Why else did I pay for a netbook? #
• 14:44 Survived the drive to Rocha-cha. Just waiting out the rain so the grillin’ can start!! #
• 14:46 Reviewed editor-requested line edits during the drive. And came up with a new story idea! (Like I don’t have enuff to process.) #
• 20:10 Wine & food & company more than made up for the nonstop rain! Taking a bit of time out ‘cos of my introverted tendencies, but just a bit. #

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• 07:25 On page 27 of 400 of Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between by Bradford Morrow. 3.5* for Elizabeth Hand’s "Hungerford Bridge." Lush descri… #
• 07:26 Not looking forward to walking into 3 hr training 1st thing in the AM. Glad I’m leaving early today. So is my shoulder! *owie* #
• 07:52 Next project: 3000+ word #wip. Can’t decide if it needs rewriting or cutting. Probably cutting. *snikt* #
• 08:50 Oh, snap! RT @drmabuse And maybe they should rename Granta "Stuff White People Read." #
• 09:26 It’s only 10 min into the training. If not for my netbook, I’d have slashed my wrists 4 minutes ago. #
• 10:10 Training’s gotten interesting. New computer system for the dayjob is going to /rawk/! Am glad I didn’t slash my wrists, now :D. #
• 11:38 woot!! Another story accepted!! Just gotta get the edits back. Details once it’s finalized. #
• 12:30 @littlefluffycat @AWDawno Thanks! Unfortunately for the universal balance to be maintained, I had another story rejected just now! 🙁 #
• 13:24 #followfriday Your summer reading list: @fantasymagazine @CoyoteWild @BrainHarvest @strangehorizons @Ideomancer @clarkesworld @chizinepub #
• 13:24 #followfriday Your summer reading list cont: @Steampunk_Tales @RueMorgue @mbranesf @GrantaMag @McSweeneysBooks @The_Rumpus #
• 13:28 #followfriday Also, @believermag @PasteMagazine @thaumatrope @gudmagazine @EosBooks @subpress #
• 13:35 #followfriday Heed these people: @drmabuse @ColleenLindsay @RachelleGardner @jonrog1 @mightymur #
• 14:13 #followfriday Folks with the coolness factor: @AWDawno @AbsoluteWrite #
• 14:14 Almost time to leave to get my back fixed!! *owie* #
• 16:42 Ahh, the bittersweet feeling of sore muscles slowly getting used to being where they *should* be! #
• 16:53 @littlefluffycat I’ll tell ya, it’s better than multiple rejections in a day. I’ve had that, too :(. #
• 16:53 Trying to sit ergonomically as I go over requested story edits =). #
• 21:45 Thanks ;)! RT @mbranesf #followfriday @DonP Always offering some good info that you didn’t realize you needed. #
• 21:47 Thanks too to @fantasymagazine @BrainHarvest @jbombardier #followfriday #
• 21:51 RT @The_Rumpus The Women of McSweeneys.net bit.ly/8MTNd #
• 22:26 #followfriday Keeping me productive: @gtdguy @PortableApps @TiddlyWiki #

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