Garden time

I spent all day yesterday going through Handbook in order to get it out the door this morning. This means i) I have returned the full manuscript promptly and ii) I have today off. Hooray! I just bought a set of three very pretty pots and want to get something planted in [...]

Read Full Post »

Perfect Saturday

Hard class in karate last night and a long, late night full of Rock Band (who knew that every single one of my sensei could sing so well?), sake, cider, beer and tales of master Shiozaki, who died two years ago yesterday.  Got in early in the morning and woke late (extraordinarily late for me [...]

Read Full Post »

Quick update

What a crazy week. Work has picked up again as everyone has come back from summer vacation, it’s a friend’s birthday on Monday and the last chance for me to see another friend’s play at the fringe is tomorrow (I think). I all ready missed another friend’s last dinner party (he’s going home [...]

Read Full Post »

In for the Night

Am finally writing a little. I started with a page of nothing this afternoon but I have actually phoned my sensei to beg off class because I’ve just sat down and started to really put down words. I feel a huge swell of gratitude to my sensei on nights like tonight. He [...]

Read Full Post »

Dear Brain,

Dear Brain,
Could you please stop futzing around on writing days?  Some of us have to earn a living here.
Thanks,
Tam

Read Full Post »

Things I Just Realized

1. I was supposed to get edits for Tenth Man this month. They haven’t come yet.
2. Editor X asked for an extra week before handing down a decision on the last project I sent in. That was on the 3rd. Of July.
3. Editor Y asked for another [...]

Read Full Post »

Fry’s English Delight

Is exactly what it says on the tin.  Available here.

Read Full Post »

Learn em good

I was listening to the Beeb today when I heard a few seconds of about this.
I do this sort of thing.  If I have a pen and the inclination (and often I have both), I will correct grammatical errors.  I get tired of looking at ill-printed signs and graffiti that says stuff like, “your fag’s” [...]

Read Full Post »

Big

Big karate night tonight. Have a hard class ahead and an event afterward. Am in the midst of painting two pots black so I can have dishes for my flower arrangement and have just remembered I haven’t washed my gi yet. There won’t be time to do that now. I’ll [...]

Read Full Post »

The headlines

On the work front:
Got home early, which is great because I was at work a little early this morning. Phew. The end of summer hols has sure made for strange days at work. I’m actually kind of looking forward to getting back to the eight thirty, nine thirty, ten o’clock rush [...]

Read Full Post »