You Know...

You know you're in the writing groove when you get up and head for the computer and don't even think "I should clean the kitchen first" (dinner last night was a multiple-mess thing and thank god for a dishwasher). Also? I didn't take time to make coffee, just took slugs off the diet coke bottle.

You know you have a Mellow Cat when you pick him up off the desk ('don't bother mommy now, sweetie') and hold him upside down over your head (arm strain!) and he lets you do it without struggling or complaining.

You know you're a fantasy writer in a technological world when you IM someone to ask a detail about wet cooperage, and they give you the URL of a site that gives you the entire history of wood for that purpose. Yay!

You know I'm on my coffee break because I'm posting instead of writing...

Now go and give me more FAQ feedback!

Monday's accomplishments:

woke up
wrote some
made coffee
went to the gym.
did some e-mail stuff
had lamb chop and roasted corn on the cob.
fed the cats (they insisted) (not lamb chop, although Boomer made a case for it)
did some more e-mail stuff
made some phone calls
waited for people to get back to me re: the e-mail stuff.
wrote some more stuff (about 1800 words total for the day)
ate some salad
did research trip planning
did some research on my newly-acquired silver box (I've established it's pre-1912, but not much beyond that. nothing else from the maker [Victor Silver] has the same design, although some are similar)
refilled my fountain pens (I use bottled ink, so this usually involves scrubbing my fingers afterward)
fed the cats again

Wasn't that exciting?
and now I am off to bed, still waiting on e-mails (you-all know who you are)


meanwhile, consider this from Locus, via clarkesworld...

"Results were tabulated using the system put together by webmaster Mark Kelly, with Locus staffers entering votes from mail-in ballots. Results were available almost as soon as the voting closed, much sooner than back in the days of hand-counting. Non-subscribers outnumbered subscribers by so much that, in an attempt to better reflect the Locus magazine readership, we decided to change the counting system, so now subscriber votes count double. (Non-subscribers still managed to out-vote subscribers in most cases where there was disagreement.)"

AFTER the voting, they changed the way votes were tabulated? Um...... right. Another reason why I don't really bother with Locus any more. If they don't want to count all readers equally, why open it to non-subscribers at all?