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Laura Anne Gilman ([personal profile] lagilman) wrote2012-11-09 07:12 am

It can't be Friday. I still have stress left.

Yes, I'm still here.  You can imagine that I was pleased with the results of the election - sanity won out over the rape-apologists and the white-men-must-rule-ites, and we now have 20 women in Congress, which most talking heads admit makes it more likely that we'll see compromise rather than bullheaded refusal to do so.  Not guaranteed, but more likely.  I cannot see that as a bad thing.  Work, Congress.  If any other employee had gotten as little done as you the past two years, they'd have been collecting unemployment long ago.

Also: national mandatory health care coverage is now the law of the land. It's not a perfect system by far, but it is, as above, a step in the direction of sanity and one-nation-for-all.

Meanwhile, after a local candidate called evolution and other areas of science "lies straight from the pit of hell," voters responded by casting 4,000 write-in votes for Darwin. Well-played, Georgia. Well-played.

Otherwise and in the more immediate world, I've been trying to get as much writing done on FiMyDaNoMo* as inhumanly possible before I head off to the wilds of the west coast to kick off the COLLARED release festivities in Seattle on the 13th.  The full schedule is here, plus you can check Facebook for details.

We also have a NYC signing date - Posman Books, 6pm on November 20th - and possibly more to come, after Thanksgiving.  So there's your holiday shopping, all wrapped up with a personalization!  :-)


And for those of us going mano-a-keyboard with our word count....

486336_528492840511375_850440271_n



And that's all I got.  You?


*Finish My Damn Novel Month

[identity profile] kriz1818.livejournal.com 2012-11-09 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure people can't collect unemployment when they've been fired "for cause." Just sayin'.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2012-11-09 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
That' s more than I have. It's jetlaaaag central here.

[identity profile] joycemocha.livejournal.com 2012-11-09 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
FiMyDaNoMo....love it!

I am wrestling with rewrites and I need to get them done before Thanksgiving. Self-imposed deadline since this is an indie project, but still....this has been the Novel That Wouldn't Die, Damnit.

And I do admit to enjoying a wee bit of the Repo wailing and chest beating. I've been in that position too many times myself (um, 1980, 1984, 1988, 2000, 2004.......'92, '96, '08 and now '12 are nice contrasts).

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2012-11-09 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
If my &*($*@&@(%)(%() brain would work two days straight, I have a short piece AND A novel to finish.

No time to dump stress, but I may go walk for a week or so after it's all over....

Darwin rules!

[identity profile] wood-dragon.livejournal.com 2012-11-09 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
If I substitute "Fix" for "Finish", I'm there with you.

[identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com 2012-11-10 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't forgotten that I owe you a Good Reads writeup. What I haven't found yet is the time to read...

[identity profile] larah33.livejournal.com 2012-11-10 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Since Wednesday morning I've been telling people, "Romney may have Binders Full of Women, but Obama has a Congress Full of Women."

Much relief north of the border. ^_^