5 things: Sunday with snow
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truepenny1. Yesterday, the CEM of The Tempering of Men started its journey back to New York. If it doesn't get there by Tuesday, it's because of UPS, not me and the $74 I shelled out.
2. Yesterday, also, I had my first full-length dressage lesson since July 31st. (I'd had a couple of lessons previously, but they'd been much shorter, as my dressage instructor has been very careful and cautious about overtaxing my ankle.) This morning, my thighs are telling me ALL ABOUT IT. I have never been so happy about sore muscles in my life.
3. The orthopedic appointment on Friday went very well. My orthopedist was amazed at the range of motion my ankle has achieved; it was much more than he'd expected. (The word "awesome" may have been used. *g*) I have the green light to start weaning myself from the lace-up brace, and I don't have to go back to the orthopedic clinic until June.
4. These three things need listing because, otherwise, I've had a crappy week--due mostly, it seems, to PMS (depressed, clumsy, exhausted, retaining water like a camel, plus the random menstrual cramps like being stabbed in the kidney.) The Mirena has certainly reduced menstrual flow (which was not something I was ever actually particularly concerned about), but other than that, all it seems to accomplish is making everything as irregular as fuck. Gynecologist appointment in January, and we will most certainly be discussing the matter.
5. I haven't done this for a while, so: if you are a reader of this blog, and you would like to introduce yourself, please feel free to do so in the comments to this post. This offer is 100% obligation free; there is no pressure here of any kind.
2. Yesterday, also, I had my first full-length dressage lesson since July 31st. (I'd had a couple of lessons previously, but they'd been much shorter, as my dressage instructor has been very careful and cautious about overtaxing my ankle.) This morning, my thighs are telling me ALL ABOUT IT. I have never been so happy about sore muscles in my life.
3. The orthopedic appointment on Friday went very well. My orthopedist was amazed at the range of motion my ankle has achieved; it was much more than he'd expected. (The word "awesome" may have been used. *g*) I have the green light to start weaning myself from the lace-up brace, and I don't have to go back to the orthopedic clinic until June.
4. These three things need listing because, otherwise, I've had a crappy week--due mostly, it seems, to PMS (depressed, clumsy, exhausted, retaining water like a camel, plus the random menstrual cramps like being stabbed in the kidney.) The Mirena has certainly reduced menstrual flow (which was not something I was ever actually particularly concerned about), but other than that, all it seems to accomplish is making everything as irregular as fuck. Gynecologist appointment in January, and we will most certainly be discussing the matter.
5. I haven't done this for a while, so: if you are a reader of this blog, and you would like to introduce yourself, please feel free to do so in the comments to this post. This offer is 100% obligation free; there is no pressure here of any kind.
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Date: 2010-12-05 06:56 pm (UTC)I'm glad your ankle is better. :)
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Date: 2010-12-05 07:05 pm (UTC)...I will reintroduce myself as the small person who got overly excited about Kay & Felix LIVING IN THE SAME HOUSE at Wiscon this year, and one of the people at Readercon a few years ago who kept running into you and talking about porn.
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Date: 2010-12-05 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-05 11:10 pm (UTC)I do intend to write up Season 4 of Due South; it's just that everything else keeps getting in the way.
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Date: 2010-12-05 11:13 pm (UTC)Introduction
Date: 2010-12-05 07:14 pm (UTC)Now I'm a fan of both.
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Date: 2010-12-05 11:10 pm (UTC)Introduction
Date: 2010-12-05 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-05 08:17 pm (UTC)I'm a HUUUGE fan of your work. I think I first found you - some years back, now - thanks to eBear's LJ. (Big fan of hers, too.)
Cheers,
Kaz
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Date: 2010-12-05 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-05 08:30 pm (UTC)I remember some years ago seeing a blogger I occassionally read mention Melusine favorably, but she didn't go into it further. At some later point I heard more about it and I remembered that favorable mention, so I gave it a go. Cue jaw droppage! I've since read, enjoyed, and expounded upon to others the series, as well as The Bone Key.
During this period of years I've been working on my own writing skills, so besides enjoying the stories and characters in your books, I've also enjoyed examining the craft of them and figuring out how you did what you did, from sentence-level stuff to story-wide.
I found your LJ through
Er, yes. I do tend to go on and on when something spurs me to speak up. *g*
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Date: 2010-12-05 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-05 09:01 pm (UTC)I'm glad your ankle is better, too!
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Date: 2010-12-05 09:35 pm (UTC)Best wishes for the other stuff.
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Date: 2010-12-05 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-05 10:14 pm (UTC)I'm an artist/animator and am supposed to be grading (bouncing ball animations, of all things) but instead am using my computer to do everything but that.
Glad your ankle is doing well.
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Date: 2010-12-05 10:26 pm (UTC)I was linked to your Sayers analyses and loved your writing style, but I was shy about befriending you by way of commenting on something written yonks ago. May I do so now?
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Date: 2010-12-05 11:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-06 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-05 10:39 pm (UTC)Um, my name is Laura, and you have sent signed books to me. :) I spend my days doing tech writing for Red Hat, and my evenings searching for the brain power to work on my fiction. You may remember me as the unpronouncable one (http://twitter.com/produdfctititty) on Twitter.
I discovered Melusine two or three years ago through the sample chapter on Amazon, which I may or may not have printed out and carried around with me and showed to everyone who would look until the book itself arrived. ...and then said things like, "Just read the first three pages, oh my god, I know right," in a slightly hysterical shriek thereafter. *coughs* I can neither confirm nor deny this. You are one of those very special authors who writes stories that are exactly what I want to read.
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Date: 2010-12-05 11:41 pm (UTC)Amazon hit that one out of the park.
I found your blog through your goodread.com alerts, and what with the cats, horses and Due South I've been addicted since.
Glad the ankle is better, sorry about the uterus, mine is very stupid also.
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Date: 2010-12-06 12:30 am (UTC)I, too, have been following your ankle prognosis, and am glad to hear things like "range of motion" and "awesome." :-)
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Date: 2010-12-06 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-06 01:14 am (UTC)I was captivated by the absolutely unapologetic way you write a world without giving a map or a glossary and just letting the reader dive in headfirst, and I really look up to you as a writer in general. Ahaha //// a little embarrassing to admit, but the truth.
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Date: 2010-12-06 01:32 am (UTC)I particularly enjoy the unread book reports you do every so often, and I've picked up a couple of the ones that you recommended.
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Date: 2010-12-06 01:36 am (UTC)I'm Chris, a "research associate" from Arizona, meaning I force my English degree into unusual configurations. Right now, I answer the reference questions at a genealogy desk and have a hand in the newspaper collection in my state's library. I like it a lot more than the roughly three years I spent in small-town journalism.
I probably found you through Elizabeth Bear's blog, but I also noticed your specialization in Renaissance/Jacobean/Early Modern/whatever they call it now Drama. If I'd gone on for an MA, I likely would have taken that course.
I have aspirations of getting fiction published someday, but I think I still have many pages of practicing before me.
... and I know way too much about fountain pens, ink, and paper, particularly old Sheaffers.
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Date: 2010-12-06 01:37 am (UTC)For those aching thigh muscles, I lie on the floor doing (relaxed) splits against the wall. Because really, having muscles ache from riding rather than, say falling down stairs? Huge win!!
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Date: 2010-12-06 03:14 am (UTC)I'm the shyest lurker ever, but since you're inviting introductions I suppose I'll be brave enough to say hi! My name's Amber, I'm a Canadian university student majoring in writing right now, poetry and fiction. You're one of my favourite writers. I didn't just love Melusine, I was in raptures over it. I found it inspirational, and I started taking my novel-in-progress seriously. So, thank you! My philosophy-major roommate and I really appreciate the academic bent in the Doctrine of Labyrinths. I loved the Bone Key and A Companion to Wolves also. Your posts about acupuncture were fascinating.
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Date: 2010-12-06 04:33 am (UTC)I have no idea why I picked up Mélusine, but it completely blew me away. The last two books of DoL are now sitting on my shelf, waiting until I finish my ph.d. exams. Until then, it's all vikings and sagas about King Arthur.
Can't remember if I've already introduced myself
Date: 2010-12-06 04:45 am (UTC)Since I can't remember, I'll risk repeating myself.
I've been a reader of your blog on and off since the beginning of Shadow Unit S1. That eventually led me to read your books, and so on... so, a good thing all around. Except when my husband accidentally killed my copy of The Virtu by leaving it in the rain... but I found another, miraculously.
The boring stuff: married, one daughter, two cats.
The interesting stuff: (haha) I just acquired a lovely new horse yesterday. If I had to say "what kind" of riding I do it would be dressage, but I'm not truly a dressage mindset. In a perfect world my barn would have oodles of trails and I could train for and do competitive trail riding and/or trail trials.
I'm also a geek about business and manufacturing technology - a byproduct of my job - and because of my daughter's passion for science and music I find myself happily learning (sometimes re-learning) lots of new things in those areas.
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Date: 2010-12-06 08:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-06 10:21 am (UTC)In the meantime I've discovered the wolf book and several of the short stories and have made a point to introduce your work to everyone I know here in Greece
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Date: 2010-12-06 04:15 pm (UTC)I'm very glad to hear your ankle is feeling better, and that you're back up on the horse! :)
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Date: 2010-12-06 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-06 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-06 06:14 pm (UTC)I am a scientist, and fiber artist, and writer, and research geek.
* Not untrue, actually, but there's more to it.
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Date: 2010-12-06 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-07 03:22 am (UTC)I am a certified bibliophile and read around 15 books a week, even now in college while going through anatomy and physioly -_-. I discovered The Virtu 3 years ago whilest ruthlessly pillaging a local library @-@. Out of order, I know, but once I read that I devoured the series in short order. The only reason I read A Companion to Wolves was because you were the co-author. After reading so much, so long a lot of books started to blend with one another to me; you're one of the few authors I have on list that always stands out in you're writing. Jim Butcher, Andrew Vachss, Mercedes Lackey, and Michelle Sagara are the others that come to mind off the top of my head. I have a little notepad that has 3 pages of authors who've managed to stick out and bring something new to the table. I've been reading for over 20 years now, believe me, you're writing is a rare quality :)
Stumbled onto blog through your website when I was waiting on pins and needles for The Mirador to come out :]
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Date: 2010-12-07 03:59 am (UTC)Hello from the depths of Whitechapel
Date: 2010-12-08 06:21 pm (UTC)Re: Hello from the depths of Whitechapel
Date: 2010-12-08 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-10 09:52 pm (UTC)As an occupation, I spend most of my time in a terrified/stressed to the nth degree buzz over trying to apply to a university to study biomedical engineering. Or animation. Whichever.
Fun fact: Just this morning I realized I had to make a clean copy of my calculus notes because I had in fact doodled Felix, Mildmay, and Jashuki all over the integrals...Whoops.