I'm sitting outside today, the scent of citronella wafting through the air, somewhat ineffectually, and writing. Due to a prompt from the ever nice Camille, I've rewritten the haiku (and made it standard 5, 7, 5 instead of the reverse 7, 5, 7 it was) and submitted it to Diet Soap (where she is editor). I don't think the rewrite made it as strong, but I figured maybe doing the standard thing might help. Anyway, here's hoping.
I'm also attempting to write hate mail to John Scalzi. See, he's got this contest going to win a new book, and if I'm anything, I'm a sucker for a contest to win books. Oh yes, there is vitriol to go around, literary and art references and disparagements of his parenthood. Good times.
Speaking of contests, all around fab guy Todd Wheeler would like to remind you all that the first deadline of his contest is TODAY! So get on it.
And now the booming in the distance, as well as the reduced light, fat drops of water and increased insect activity are all telling me it's time to go back inside. Hope you all are having fun today.
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It's good that you only got fat drops of rain. Before the storm reached you, it dumped a huge amount of grape-sized hail on us! There was so much of it on the streets that it felt like driving over a gravel road. ; - D
It was cheap date day. I took my Steve to the Akron Art Museum (two new exhibits plus another wing of the permanent collection now open) and then on a pontoon boat tour of the Cuyahoga River around Cuyahoga Falls ($10 for both of us!).
Haven't been writing at all this weekend, but I will get back to it next week.
Hey Sheila, well, it rained pretty hard here for about two hours. I didn't know Steve was still in town, cool. I thought the whole Akron Museum was open, I guess not. Just like Cleveland they must be rolling out their opening.
It's lovely and sunny here, but dreadful hot. I'm at work, wearing a fleece jacket to shield me from the over-zealous AC. Clearly I'm not working, but I promise I'm about to start...
Greeny, fleece jacket, wow, now that's AC!
Hmm, comfortable, coolish, arctic blast. Let's let it to arctic blast.
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