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http://www.dailykitten.com/2009/11/lintilla-2/

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Location: Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Lintilla is number seven in our household. My husband and I were driving past a park when I saw a tiny kitten at the edge of the park driveway. We stopped and hoped she wouldn’t run off. She did but after about 10 minutes she came back. I caught her by meowing to her in the bushes. Once I had a hold of her she purred up a storm. She was starved and her feet were all cut up as if she has been thrown from a car. We checked for and siblings but there were no more kittens in the bushes.

This may be a modern world, but you don’t normally scroll through a piece of paper.

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http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/sudoku/?d=w&t=20091107

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<davewsmith_blog> so, the bizarro 'this can't be happening' bug today is eventually explained as documented ms sql server behavior.
<dws> when provided with a datetime in milliseconds, it rounds to the nearest 1/300th of a second, which may be in the future.

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• 19:02 ...yet more rehearsal of course ... Line? Line?!? myloc.me/1nah6 #

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Want to know what you should do after you sign the book contract but before the book comes out?

I'm blogging over at storyfix.com with all the answers - just click here to read them.

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1. We are still animals. I like to watch people's mouths when they talk, either out in the real world or on TV. People still use their tongues to communicate, but it's unconscious. Even newscasters. Once you start noticing it, it's amusing.

2. I just though of the best opening for a new book. It's so good I'm worried it's been used before.

3. The Fort Hood shooter was described by the New York Times today as being in "stable" condition. Ain't not such animal. Stable is a modifier. I used to routinely give condition reports about hospitalized patients to reporters, and your choices are: critical, poor, fair, and good. Stable is not a condition. You can be in good condition and stable or in poor condition and stable.

4. I've got too many regulars on my running route. If I slough off, then Rich the smoker who hangs out by his garage, or Jeff, the guy who walks no matter what the weather, will be there to witness it.

5. I just sent my YA editor two ideas for new books. I hope she likes one.

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This has simultaneously been one of the shittiest and most wonderful weeks I can remember surviving through. The question of polarity depends on whether it's dark out or not.

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I have to reformat my Pre. Well I don't have to, but I think it might get the voice-call subsystem to work again. How'd that happen?

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I'm going to go home and put the Sex Pistols on the turntable and follow it up with some Manics and Black Saint Sinner Lady. I'm going to ask anyone in the house at the time if they'd like to gob with me.

DDR
*sigh* I have to postpone the DDR outing. Guess who forgot she was teaching a private student on Saturday morning? Good thing he sent me his homework, or I'd have spaced out on the lesson completely. ^_^;;;;;; I'd rather be doing DDR than teaching, but money is money. ^_^; *sigh* I can always do DDR on Wednesdays. Or Fridays, for that matter.

In Which Ai Proves To Be Juvenile
After watching this video (provided by crysaliz in response to this post), all I have to say is: OMG YES I WANT TO BUY ONE NOW. More for laughs than for anything else, really--and that proves just how juvenile I can be. ^_^;

Christmas Poem
... it's really darned hard to write a Christmas poem when the lyrics to a thousand and one Christmas carols keep floating around in my head. Dammit, poems aren't always supposed to rhyme. I can't rhyme to save my life either, and I know this. So why is my brain bent on rewriting Jingle Bells yet again? T_T ARGH. If I can't write something in two weeks, this year might be a no-poem year, and people might get short "thank you for being you" notes instead. Just saying. *looks darkly at the calendar*

Beta-ing
Aha, a nice long final installment is in my mailbox, and ontogenesis was wonderful enough to provide me with a Word document so I could beta on the go! Now I just need to find time to do the beta. I guess I'll do it tomorrow around the private lesson and lunch with Doug. Since I can't exercise, I should do something productive with my time (especially because Saturday night is shaping up to be a night of extreme dissolution...)

Google Tasks
Would you believe I have four separate Tasks (one for each Gmail-powered e-mail account), and that I actually found the need for this because I have too much to do? T_T At least this way RL, regular online life, voiceover-related stuff, and fandom stuff all get attention (and more importantly they are prioritized better so that I can check at a glance to see if there's anything important that needs to get done NOW).

Sick Fascination
No Sims 3 today, and none tomorrow either. I guess the sims will have to wait for a week or two before I come back to them. Instead, I have to decide between running around like a madwoman tomorrow (on my day off, no less), or staying at home and postponing most of this to a weekday. I guess most of this can wait another day or two, and I'll do the beta ASAP.

I already have enough to do on a daily basis. Why do I even bother playing The Sims 3, when it's the same thing (trying to do too much in too little time) anyway? ^_^;;;;;; I'm weird, aren't I?

Livejournal
... whoops, getting spam-worthy. Will stop for a few hours and go to bed. ^_^

http://www.dailykitten.com/2009/11/luna-comet/

http://www.dailykitten.com/?p=3790

Location: Altoona, Wisconsin, USA

Luna and Comet came into the shelter along with their brothers Orbit and Sonic as part of our TNR program. They have been in my foster home since they came into the shelter at four weeks old. Orbit and Sonic have been adopted, but Luna and Comet are now five months old, have been recently altered and are more than ready to go to their furrever home.

I used to wish that I wrote non-fiction, because non-fiction sold better. But agent Chip MacGregor says that non-fiction, at least non-fiction self-help, is tanking. He says, “People have discovered they can find those same answers on the web for free ... People still want answers to the evergreen questions (how can I be healthy? how can I make money money? how can I be at peace? how can I know God? how can I ever be as cool as Chip if I'm not Scottish?), but we're not sure they're going to continue buying those answers in book form if they can get something just as good for free.”

He also says he is representing fewer memoirs these days. He says rather than doing a straight memoir, “consider turning it inside out. In other words, don't focus on your personal story -- focus on the principles for living that come out of your story. Don't just use the book to tell what happened -- use the book to share the principles for living you've learned, and use your story to illustrate those principles. ... So if you feel you've got some sort of dynamite story, don't focus on re-telling everyone what happened in your life. Instead, focus on the lessons learned, write about them, and use some of your story as examples in your text.

You can read all of Chip’s post here.