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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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• 07:29 Day 4 #homealone. Place is cleaner. Now I’ve got actually home projects I wanna tackle. After work :). #
• 07:30 "You ask me what I think/ I tell you, you ignore it/ The reasons for it make me crazy." #lyrics ♫ blip.fm/~7hh3v #
• 10:36 Querying markets re: story status & making a list of current open markets. Gotta push stuff out this month! ♫ blip.fm/~7hq00 #
• 11:22 Feeling an intense hategasm coming on for the student-loan sharks. #
• 11:50 Full-on hategasm for the student-loan sharks, now. 🙁 #
• 11:57 Hategasm interruptus–I’m pretty sure I’m going to have another story published! 🙂 #
• 13:22 RT @mightymur Now is the time on Sprockets when we HEADDESK! I think perhaps I need a lunch break before I kill. [My sentiments exactly!] #
• 16:23 Looks like I get to leave work early. What to do with myself…? Oh yeah, more rewrites!! Rar! #
• 17:14 Good news: at the PM writing spot. Bad news: I’m 1/2 asleep and the coffee hasn’t kicked in yet. #
• 17:27 Good news: more awake now. Bad news: stressing over all the #homealone chores that await me. #
• 19:17 I want to read: Monkeybicycle6 by Various – tinyurl.com/q3d6bh #
• 20:49 Good news: almost done rewriting another #wip. Bad news: Not the one I’d been working on for the past 2 days. #
• 21:49 I’m becoming physically and psychologically addicted to DEADLIEST WARRIOR. #

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• 09:00 Did #ithacafest tucker me out? Got up late & scrambled out the door this AM. #
• 09:01 Left a crapload of dishes in the sink. And I’ve only been #homealone for 3 days. Eh, I’ve got 6 more days to do ’em 😉 #
• 10:01 I want to read: One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk… by Rebecca Walker – tinyurl.com/kr8xto #
• 11:43 10 Author Online Promotional Don’ts bit.ly/ICkPS #
• 11:44 More love for my FANTASY MAGAZINE microfic bit.ly/K7kkK — still not too late to read and vote for your 3 faves! #
• 12:12 Writer pr0n! RT @jonrog1 My desk- season/plot notebook. to-do notebook, act notes ep 207 #leverage twitpic.com/6engo #
• 12:37 RT @TaraBusch Review of Radiophonic Workshop @RoundhouseLDN 🙂 bit.ly/5JH0x [Wish I coulda seen this!] #
• 13:25 twitpic.com/6et59 – From the #ithacafestival arms dealer (read: craft fair). Chow Yun-Fat ain’t got nothin’ on me! #
• 13:27 twitpic.com/6etb8 – I know some folks are glad to graduate & leave, but geez. #
• 18:11 RT @charlesatan Check out The Story Is All: Ten Fiction Editors Talk Shop bit.ly/Akd0g #
• 18:16 Where am I with the Revenge of the Writer? 1 story pubbed, 2 rewrites cooling off, 2 more to finish, and 3 stories to resub. #rotw #
• 18:20 Something to get my ass in gear. #musicmonday ♫ blip.fm/~7gdvf #
• 20:25 Pausing tonite’s writing to do housekeeping. Just ‘cos I’m #homealone this week doesn’t mean I’m gonna let the place slide ;). #

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• 08:03 Should’ve gotten more sleep after almost a whole day at #ithacafest. Stayed up too late watching BLEACH, instead :(. #
• 08:13 Can’t be at #BEA09, but I can watch some of the proceedings live on #BookTV. #
• 09:04 One of the most basic storytelling principles, illustrated by a child at the #ithacafestival vimeo.com/4926483 #
• 09:12 twitpic.com/6bwsm – Post-interment drink last Fri at my 90 yr old Italian aunt’s house. 90 yr old Italian aunts rule! #
• 10:13 One of the other authors in the @fantasymagazine microcontest called my piece "very moving." I feel the same about hers. bit.ly/jADiI #
• 10:33 "Dark reflections of the past/ Drown in our tomorrows" #lyrics ♫ blip.fm/~7dhni #
• 10:36 Okay, I got a list of rewrites as long as my arm to get to before I treat myself to more #ithacafestival tonite. #
• 10:36 RT @raebryant Micro-Shorts: “…Enjoyable…fun…spell bound…vivid…incredible…well written…” — bit.ly/jl6xP #
• 11:54 @sufferjets I’ll be there! #
• 11:55 WiFi at the writing spot no longer wonky. Is that good or bad? Eh, I’ll just sip my blended coffee drink & not worry ’bout it for now 🙂 #
• 12:21 @susanorlean I know *exactly* how you feel 🙁 #
• 12:26 For once, there’s a real psychic reason I’m not writing: too much still crammed in my head that needs to be dumped out. #gtd #
• 13:54 On page 96 of 272 of Black Glass: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler. Epistolary pieces like "The Travails" are hard to pull off as well as this… #
• 13:55 On page 105 of 272 of Black Glass: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler. Read "Lieserl" in another anthology; loved it then, too. 5* #
• 14:51 twitpic.com/6clje – I trashed my table but I got another rewrite done! 🙂 #wip #
• 18:28 @littlefluffycat I still use a metric crapload of paper per story. Had the writing stopped way too many times due to "glitches" ;). #
• 18:32 Weather at #ithacafest was so gorgeous! The Mutron Warriors kicked ass! I really, really hated having to go :(. #
• 18:49 @littlefluffycat I refuse to let my writing disappear when the EMP hits at the start of the zombie apocalype ;). #
• 18:51 One reader considers my @fantasymagazine microfic to be w/another’s in a "photo finish!" bit.ly/1vaNUx #

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• 07:29 All houseguests, & even a house resident, are about to ship out to MA. I get to be Macauly Culkin in HOME ALONE for 1.5 weeks. #
• 11:03 Macaulay Culkin HOME ALONE-mode is in effect! Down walking thru #ithacafestival while there’s still room to walk thru it. #
• 12:27 Had to take a break from the #ithacafestival in the library to dump my camera. Taking way more pics & vids than I know what to do with. 🙂 #
• 12:36 Heading back out into #ithacafestival before I succumb to the allure of AC and Wi-Fi :). #
• 12:38 Oh, and have I mentioned my microfic at FANTASY MAGAZINE (in the past 12 hours)? bit.ly/HCIip 😀 #
• 14:15 Indoors briefly for another camera dump. #ithacafestival #
• 15:50 Taking a brief respite from #ithacafestival to enjoy a lil’ time to myself (Home Alone!!). Will head back tonite to watch @suffejets. #
• 21:19 Missed @sufferjets due to a TCAT miscalculation on my part. Crud :(. Gotta plan better for #ithacafest at Stewart Park tomorrow. #

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