It’s completely absurd, but every time I see those Brooke Shields VW ads, the ones where she accuses people of having babies just for German engineering… I just can’t help but giggle. Mostly because the couples answer back: "That’s not why we’re having a baby!" "Lady, we’re standing right here!"
The one I just saw was hilarious:
I’m going in for minor surgery today (don’t worry, it’s really, really minor) and this weekend my roommates and I are doing a yard sale, basically to clean out the basement as one roommate moves out. Why I scheduled these two things for the same week, I haven’t a clue. Hopefully it’ll be exactly as the doctor says and not only will I be able to drive home from the surgery (it’s that minor), I’ll still be able to push my HUGE desk out of my room. I’ve decided that having a desk in my bedroom just encourages me to pile things on it, because having a laptop means you can work from anywhere. So I’m replacing the desk with two beautiful bookshelves with little leather crates/boxes to hold the things the desk drawers used to hold, and giving myself back about 8 square feet of floor space. Now I’ll be able to reach the closet and maybe that will help me not pile things on the desk that will be gone. 🙂
As far as actual editing goes, well, it’s life as usual. I have all sorts of interesting things happening at work, which I can’t really blog about just yet, and just a lot of editing to hit deadlines. I got two books out to copyedit last week, and it’s on to the next book. Busy busy busy.
One thing I CAN tell you is that I can officially announce a new series by which I’ll be working on. Here’s the Publisher’s Lunch announcement:
Jeff Sampson’s THE LIFE AND DEATH OF EMILY COOKE, the first in a dark fantasy series about Emily Webb, who at night transforms from shy and mousy geek girl into a wild thrill-seeker, to Stacy Whitman at Mirrorstone.
There’s a WHOLE lot more to the story, but I don’t want to give away anything! Keep your eye out for more on it in the future, though.
Sometimes this job is hurry up and wait. I’m still waiting for the waiting part, though. Perhaps fast and faster would be the better description. But as I walked out the door yesterday to go pick up lunch from the Thai place down the street, I was able to take a bit of a pause and play with a litter of beagle puppies that a coworker had brought in to show everyone in the lobby. Their ears were SO soft! I was so tempted to take one home. Except that Mogget and Tildrum might not like that so much. The puppy was about as big as they are full-grown.
Not to mention I only have so much room on my lap for the animal menagerie sort. Two is the limit, at least for now.
But I was sorely tempted.