and that was Friday. The 13th, even.

[lagilman]

Working, working, working. Slightly manic, in fact, but that's more yay than uh-oh.

Unfortunately, one of the prime indicators that I'm in a massive manic word-creating mode is that I have an utter disinclination - nay, an actual aversion - to doing any kind of meal-prep. Which, since I abhor most prepackaged frozen dinner things, means a lot of meals this week were of the "stick a spoon in a jar of peanut butter" type. Oh well. Nobody ever died of peanut butter, right?

Started writing a ghost story on-request yesterday, realized this morning that it had not only skipped into Dark but made a full slide into horror's home base, pulled it back on track, and have it ready for revisions.

Then I went to have lunch with a friend, a lovely long lunch filled with industry gossip and actual business-type talk, and the stuff that friends of 20-years-standing talk about (oh lord, yeah it HAS been that long) and the mac-and-cheese with prosciutto and chopped truffles was OMG to die for and I had the leftovers for dinner, so there's the actual eating today sorted, yeah?

And then I came home to a) stepping on my glasses and making one lens pop out, so that's tomorrow's errand to run, getting it fixed, and b) a gift from the USPS:


Containing, among others, my story "Crossroads."

Baby's first Year's Best inclusion!


So overall, despite a blister and busted glasses, I'm calling this F13th a win. Unless of course a masked serial killer breaks in before midnight....

Comments

Death from peanut butter

[ticktockman.livejournal.com]

Congrats on being selected!

And, sadly, someone has indeed died from eating peanut butter. Her name was Katherine Brodsky, and she was a student at Brown University, and she knew she was allergic to peanuts ... but she didn't know that the chili she ordered at a restaurant was thickened with peanut butter. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/02/us/prize-winning-chili-altered-after-athlete-s-death.html

*daha*

Re: Death from peanut butter

[lagilman]

I knew someone was going to bring up allergies....

[jmward14.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the selection! That more than makes up for blisters and busted glasses--damn near anything except serial killers, in fact. Three cheers!

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's awesome.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I am so pleased about Crossroads. It's a fine story.
And I am very pleased about the proper eating, too. I will nag you to continue doing so over the weekend, I warn you. (I'm on my own, and I hate to cook, so I will have similar temptations just to do my equivalent of the peanut butter -- houmous on pitta. So we can remind each other to eat properly.)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but hummus on pitta is food. I'm not sure anything with peanut butter in is.

(I totally deny the presence of a jar of the stuff downstairs. What you think you see there is actually pureed peanut, you understand, for making satay.)

[lagilman]

Peanut butter is an American thing. Like Vegemite for Australians, or marmite for the British Isles. We don't expect other people to understand, and we don't force anyone who doesn't like it to partake, but we are unapologetic about our love for it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Strangely, Laura Anne insists it *is* food. It must be an American thing. :-)

[shana.livejournal.com]

Surely you can take five minutes to call in a food delivery order?

[lagilman]

Occasionally. But the nutritional value of take-away, even good take-away, when I have perfectly good and much healthier ingredients in the fridge? Plus I'd have to remember to order the food in a timely manner, which I'm not doing in manic work-mode (and also means limited usefulness before noon, or after 10 pm).


And doing that every day would seriously screw with my budget. You can eat cheap-ish in NYC, but it adds up fast, and writers get paid weakly, not weekly.

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, Laura Anne! That's pretty damfine!

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the story, and get cooking! I have the same problem, and really should go cook tonight so I have more to eat for breakfast. Might have to thaw the GF, DF pizza for breakfast before seminar.

Need to cook rice, but the natives are watching a very loud, violent movie. Not conducive to good cooking vibes....