I've managed to survive my trip to New Mexico, and now if I can make it through the next three days without looking like a total idiot, I will consider my trip a success. Well, hopefully. I'm here to collect some samples, too, along with meet with two of the top archaeologist working the the Southwest, so looking like an idiot may be more of an obligatory outcome, but if I can get my hands on some good samples, it may be okay. Considering I'll be spending Halloween dealing with dead people (like, literally I will be carrying some home in my bag), I figure this is probably the most time-appropriate trip I've ever made :)
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
I'm not dead yet...
Although that might be hard to tell from the general lack of postage around here. I keep coming up with good post ideas and then totally forgetting them when I actually sit down at my computer. I need to start writing them down.
Anyhow, I'm not dead yet. This is really only because I managed to sleep last night, for a very looong time. It was wonderful! I am also nearly, nearly halfway done with this quarter. Thank heavens! The midterm is next week, and hopefully my students pull it together and don't think it's too hard. We'll see. Overall the class has been fun.
My new WIP is coming along nicely. I hit 7k the other night and have started planning out the real meat of the conflict. It's going to be sooo fun! And totally not YA. Well, I think. Since it deals with polyandry, I don't think it's going to be possible to keep it to that age level, even if my MC's only 18. At any rate, it's a fun little gothic, post-apocalyptic (sorta) story. :-)
And now, it's off to take my goat for a walk, then shoe shopping with DH. He's got to be the most picky shoe man on the face of the planet, so this shall be interesting!
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Anyhow, I'm not dead yet. This is really only because I managed to sleep last night, for a very looong time. It was wonderful! I am also nearly, nearly halfway done with this quarter. Thank heavens! The midterm is next week, and hopefully my students pull it together and don't think it's too hard. We'll see. Overall the class has been fun.
My new WIP is coming along nicely. I hit 7k the other night and have started planning out the real meat of the conflict. It's going to be sooo fun! And totally not YA. Well, I think. Since it deals with polyandry, I don't think it's going to be possible to keep it to that age level, even if my MC's only 18. At any rate, it's a fun little gothic, post-apocalyptic (sorta) story. :-)
And now, it's off to take my goat for a walk, then shoe shopping with DH. He's got to be the most picky shoe man on the face of the planet, so this shall be interesting!
Monday, October 19, 2009
Contest
In my internet meanderings I came across a great contest that I plan on entering. Interested in a query contest by Mary Kole? Check it out. So far, her blog has been very interesting, so it's one of those I'd suggest you add to your feed :)
In other news, I've started another WIP, in order to keep myself sane while this quarter ends. Also, it's about time I put all that anthropology to good use, right? Anyhow, I've been exploring Polyandry off and on ever since I took a Kinship class way back at the start of grad school. Interesting topic, and making for a very tense situation. Gotta love it!
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In other news, I've started another WIP, in order to keep myself sane while this quarter ends. Also, it's about time I put all that anthropology to good use, right? Anyhow, I've been exploring Polyandry off and on ever since I took a Kinship class way back at the start of grad school. Interesting topic, and making for a very tense situation. Gotta love it!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
It's Off!
I just hit send on my anthology submission. It's out in the internets now, and out of my hands! I'm pretty pumped about it, really, though it's not like the world best story, but it's okay. I had fun writing it at least, and I'm counting that as a major accomplishment. I re-wrote the first chapters about ten times, so I hope they're catch someone's attention (in a good way!). Here's to hoping that someone at Samhain likes it!
Other than that, I'm somehow struggling to keep my head above water for the moment. School has been, well, school. I'm exhausted and should be at the lab right now, but that can wait til later. I think some celebratory food and TV/book time have been earned right now. I made out like a total bandit at the library book sale earlier today (then had to find a way to get all the books home on my bike, which made me feel REAL smart, let me tell ya). Anyhow, I've got some good reading on my hands.
Speaking of reading, I've been ripping through a lot of titles lately. This past week, alone, I read:
-IF I STAY (interesting, though a little more introspective than I like. Totally made me bawl like a baby though.)
-WINTERGIRLS (Holy Crap. Such a powerful book, and not just in the way that it made me feel like a total cow from start to finish :)
-WAKE (This was my fav this week, mainly because it's more to my taste. I can't wait to get my hands on FADE, and GONE, asap!)
There's been a lot more read that that, but I'm too lazy to write about them right now!
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Other than that, I'm somehow struggling to keep my head above water for the moment. School has been, well, school. I'm exhausted and should be at the lab right now, but that can wait til later. I think some celebratory food and TV/book time have been earned right now. I made out like a total bandit at the library book sale earlier today (then had to find a way to get all the books home on my bike, which made me feel REAL smart, let me tell ya). Anyhow, I've got some good reading on my hands.
Speaking of reading, I've been ripping through a lot of titles lately. This past week, alone, I read:
-IF I STAY (interesting, though a little more introspective than I like. Totally made me bawl like a baby though.)
-WINTERGIRLS (Holy Crap. Such a powerful book, and not just in the way that it made me feel like a total cow from start to finish :)
-WAKE (This was my fav this week, mainly because it's more to my taste. I can't wait to get my hands on FADE, and GONE, asap!)
There's been a lot more read that that, but I'm too lazy to write about them right now!
Monday, October 5, 2009
Teaching
I'm staring down the second week this quarter and trying to muster the strength to get back in the classroom. This is my first foray into teaching an upper division class, during the normal school year (not summer school), and it's been pretty good so far. I'm exhausted beyond all belief, but I think that's normal. I hope. I'm also deeply impressed with my students. Teaching and TA'ing for freshman and those who generally take the lower division anthropology classes has managed, over the years, to freak me out when it comes to the future of our nation. Thank heavens this class doesn't seem like that (so far). I'm much more on my toes teaching, and I love that. Well, with the exception of getting those random questions I don't know how to answer. Hate that. But yeah, I'm feeling a little better about the future of humanity :)
I'm also attempting to pull together my novella for the Samhain submission window. I've got to get that in soon, and have to finish my query and synopsis. I have drafts that I've worked to death, but I worry they aren't quite "there" yet. Not quite sure how to solve that, but I'm handing it off to a crit budy in hopes she has some ideas. I need to get this outah here though, as it's hit the point of negative returns (as in, if they don't like it, then I'll really hate myself for all the time I spent on it, when there's not a whole lot I can do with the dang thing). It's been fun to write, though, so that's always good.
I also finished WINTERGIRLS this morning. Whoa. I'm still reeling a little. It was a fascinating read, but I kept getting that feeling of "oh good grief I am a COW" while I read. I know this isn't the intent of the author, but yeah, I'll admit that I'm looking at my food a little differently (well, after this past weekend with all the family dinners we had, it's probably a good thing!).
Okay, bed! Off to the classroom tomorrow, hopefully it's a good week!
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I'm also attempting to pull together my novella for the Samhain submission window. I've got to get that in soon, and have to finish my query and synopsis. I have drafts that I've worked to death, but I worry they aren't quite "there" yet. Not quite sure how to solve that, but I'm handing it off to a crit budy in hopes she has some ideas. I need to get this outah here though, as it's hit the point of negative returns (as in, if they don't like it, then I'll really hate myself for all the time I spent on it, when there's not a whole lot I can do with the dang thing). It's been fun to write, though, so that's always good.
I also finished WINTERGIRLS this morning. Whoa. I'm still reeling a little. It was a fascinating read, but I kept getting that feeling of "oh good grief I am a COW" while I read. I know this isn't the intent of the author, but yeah, I'll admit that I'm looking at my food a little differently (well, after this past weekend with all the family dinners we had, it's probably a good thing!).
Okay, bed! Off to the classroom tomorrow, hopefully it's a good week!
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