5 things for the winter solstice

[truepenny]

1. The eclipse tonight, in my tiny part of the world, will be eclipsed by snow.

2. I have accomplished Things today. Things, I tell you! Several of them Things that have needed accomplishing since sometime in August.

3. One of those Things was turning a rejected story right back out the door (no, don't take your boots off, you're not staying), and throwing another story into the eel-infested waters ring. I've got to finish editing "The Devil in Gaylord's Creek" and "To Die for Moonlight" so I can launch them out of the nest, too. And possibly unmix my metaphors, while I'm at it.

4. The winter solstice is the birthday of the protagonist of The Goblin Emperor. It's weird; I worked out Felix and Mildmay's birthdays, but I never remember when they are; I don't have the least idea when Booth's birthday is. But Maia's birthday, I remember.

5. matociquala observed (over on Twitter where she is, of course, @matociquala), that this is the first time there's been a total lunar eclipse on the winter solstice since 1638. There's a time travel story in there somewhere. I can feel it.

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

I want to read that story.

[heathwitch.livejournal.com]

Me too! :-)

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it was cloudy through the eclipse here, as well (it was cloudy when I went to bed, and when I got up, and when I looked out in the middle of the night; and the forecast said it would be solidly cloudy all night). Astronomical photography (and even observation) does tend to interfere with the sleep I need to be functional at the day job.

[(Anonymous)]

Funny thing about having a birthday on the winter solstice. By our calendar, the solstice falls anywhere between 12/21 and 12/23. So some years my birthday falls on the winter solstice and some years it does not. Here's hoping they use a more sensible calendar in the world of The Goblin Emperor. ;-)

Melanie
Albuquerque