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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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• 09:22 I think the rainy weather has sapped the will to live from me and more than one coworker today… 🙁 #
• 09:50 Rediscovering my Fictionaut account. Anything to procrastinate typing up yesterday’s meeting minutes :(. #
• 10:20 "It was only a matter of time before only literary magazines teamed up with fetish porn studios to produce events." bit.ly/I00dn #
• 10:47 "Mega-hail destroyed almost 10,000 homes in China, while dead animals have been raining from the clouds in Japan" bit.ly/N987t #
• 11:31 Dragging Day at the Dayjob playlist: PEACE AT LAST by The Blue Nile #
• 11:59 RT @BoingBoing "1964 Frederick’s of Hollywood catalog tinyurl.com/nsorco " fascinating peek into the past! (via @AWDawno) #
• 12:48 This just cemented my love for Karen Joy Fowler’s writing & her short stories: bit.ly/mKClB #
• 14:24 Starting to whine about my shoulder like Dr. Smith from LOST IN SPACE. "Oh, the pain…the pain." #
• 14:58 I’ve had the hardest time knowing when to stop editing w/current #wip. Well, I’m cutting myself off! #
• 17:55 @AWDawno I’ve subscribed to you on friendfeed. Great, more ways to procrastinate 😀 #
• 17:58 RT @fantasymagazine We’re switching #affiliate programs to #powell’s – bit.ly/1aleBV #fantasy #books #bookstores #
• 18:00 RT @jonrog1 Spoiler! Kane and will rehearse ep207 big fight! #leverage twitpic.com/7quf9 #
• 18:12 Massive disappointment–one of my favorite musicians closed his YouTube account! 🙁 #
• 19:39 Trying to find a market for the #wip I just finished. Sending it off will be the only way I’ll quit trying to rewrite it! #

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• 07:27 Apparently the emo version of Don Henley’s "The Boys of Summer" wasn’t enough. My ears are melting at a dance club version. #
• 07:28 Is the singer even old enough to even know what a "Deadhead sticker" is? She doesn’t sound it. #
• 07:30 Here–share my horror! ♫ blip.fm/~8dkq4 #
• 10:00 Sure am glad I volunteered to take staff meeting minutes this summer. Yep. Minutes. Gotta love ’em. Yeah. #
• 10:09 On page 243 of 272 of Black Glass: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler. "Game Night at the Fox and Goose" was slow-building but gut-wrenching at … #
• 10:20 I KNEW I liked Karen Joy Fowler for a reason! I’d be *proud* to be "accused" of this: bit.ly/WL8QE #
• 11:57 #blog "Can’t remember the last time I read something that made the writer in me want to pump my fist in the air." bit.ly/94snb #
• 11:59 @gudmagazine Reading CONJUNCTIONS 52 currently. #
• 12:05 RT @jeffvandermeer New blog post: Shared Worlds: Real Cities That Seem Fantastical/SFnal tinyurl.com/mn39kt (via @fantasymagazine) #
• 12:28 @gudmagazine It’s a literary mag that I’ll pick up depending on who’s in it… #
• 12:29 @gudmagazine The latest, CONJUNCTIONS 52 has fiction by Elizabeth Hand, China Mieville, Jeff VanderMeer, Shelley Jackson, &c. #
• 14:52 Finished with Black Glass: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler. Finished the back matter. A *very* educational read. #
• 16:39 Pain in my shoulder since Sunday now bad enough that I need the chiropractor to fix it :(. Owie. #
• 17:39 Appt. w/chiropractor confirmed (thank Christ)! #
• 17:43 I want to read: Generation Loss: A Novel by Elizabeth Hand – tinyurl.com/mlbzyy #
• 17:57 twitpic.com/7nnvh – $3.99 for a book like this? I had to buy it, ‘cos it just wasn’t right! 🙂 #
• 18:25 On page 18 of 400 of Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between by Bradford Morrow. 4* for Stephen Wright’s "Brain Jelly." Great slipstream wo… #

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• 08:16 On page 229 of 272 of Black Glass: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler. "The View From Venus" is a 5* women’s fic/scifi mash-up! #
• 08:23 "It’s such a pity to say/ Goodbye to you" [i.e. another coworker today] #lyrics ♫ blip.fm/~8bbg8 #
• 10:19 Writer.pr0n from the notebook of @warrenellis bit.ly/88f8n #
• 10:40 Photos of Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios bit.ly/kwojg #
• 11:59 @accidentalhaiku Niiice catch! #
• 13:33 I’m #reading We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle – tinyurl.com/qbfryk #
• 13:33 I’m #reading Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between by Bradford Morrow – tinyurl.com/myolom #
• 13:34 I was only gonna buy the *one book* I ordered at the indie bookstore. Clearly went apeshit :). #
• 15:55 I better get my free LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE tix tonite! #
• 16:14 I want to read: Everland and Other Stories by Paul Witcover – tinyurl.com/mew87n #
• 21:30 My consolation for never having seen LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE before tonite was seeing it for free on a big screen @TheCinemapolis! #
• 22:11 EASTENDERS! Now my evening’s complete :). #

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• 09:03 Saying goodbye to more coworkers this week; at least a couple are coming back in the fall 🙁 ♫ blip.fm/~89705 #
• 09:13 Do I feel like risking my USB drive to see if NAV still thinks portableapps.exe is a trojan? 🙁 #
• 09:18 Forgot I had a backup portableapps drive and tested that–so far, so good!! #
• 09:27 Hallelujah! portableapps.exe NOT zapped by NAV! Feels like having a severed limb reattached! #
• 10:06 Yesterday’s bimonthly critique group evisceration bit.ly/3ptcLY #blog #
• 12:14 Local indie theater is reopening. Gonna see a free showing of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE tomorrow! www.cinemapolis.org/ #
• 13:02 @AWDawno Been looking forward to this opening for *weeks*! Plus, I’m ashamed to say I haven’t seen that film yet :(. #
• 13:03 Putting yesterday’s flash fic on hold to pay attn. to the #wip I should’ve been working on! #
• 13:22 Decided to forego this year’s "camping trip." Next year, maybe :(. #
• 14:26 @AWDawno Then, this is for you: RT @mcsweeneysbooks It’s "amateur hour" on mcsweeneys.net today. bit.ly/XpDSl #
• 14:28 Am almost desperate enuff to beg someone to jam a ballpoint pen into the knot underneath my shoulder blade!! 🙁 #
• 16:23 This tune never fails to make me smile. ♫ blip.fm/~89z5w #
• 16:45 DOCTOR WHO spoilers!! bit.ly/jGCP2 #
• 17:35 Last minute trip to happy hour. Netbook w/the #wip and Saranac Adirondack Amber. Ah, the life… #
• 21:50 @AWDawno Her friend Britney has been trying 3x/day for about 2 weeks now hehe. #

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