today, and a reminder of days gone by...
Jul. 6th, 2009 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilman3,000+ new words today. Not bad for first day back on the pony. Tonight, more client-work.
Had a slightly surreal moment -- doing a search on something totally unrelated, and my name came up in a link to a book I had totally forgotten about. No, not one I wrote -- but one I created/edited. "Wish You Were Here" =-- a YA series published by Berkley back in 1996, the year I left to go to Roc/NAL.
How could I forget about those books? They were so much fun to work on... it's sad they didn't take off.
Many years ago, I had a resume that listed all the projects I edited, including the ones I created in-house. I really wish I still had that file... (it ran to three pages, single spaced, by 1996). SF and fantasy, mystery, YA, non-fiction, suspense...
It all seems so very very long ago. A different lifetime. But the memories, for the most part, are sweet.
EtA: om nom nom. A chunk of wild-caught sockeye salmon, pan-cooked with garlic, a splash of white wine, and a sprinkling herbs until the fish is pale orange and flaking to the fork. When healthy food tastes this good and is this easy to prepare, why would anyone eat junk/fast food? (the price really isn't that much different, all told)
Had a slightly surreal moment -- doing a search on something totally unrelated, and my name came up in a link to a book I had totally forgotten about. No, not one I wrote -- but one I created/edited. "Wish You Were Here" =-- a YA series published by Berkley back in 1996, the year I left to go to Roc/NAL.
How could I forget about those books? They were so much fun to work on... it's sad they didn't take off.
Many years ago, I had a resume that listed all the projects I edited, including the ones I created in-house. I really wish I still had that file... (it ran to three pages, single spaced, by 1996). SF and fantasy, mystery, YA, non-fiction, suspense...
It all seems so very very long ago. A different lifetime. But the memories, for the most part, are sweet.
EtA: om nom nom. A chunk of wild-caught sockeye salmon, pan-cooked with garlic, a splash of white wine, and a sprinkling herbs until the fish is pale orange and flaking to the fork. When healthy food tastes this good and is this easy to prepare, why would anyone eat junk/fast food? (the price really isn't that much different, all told)
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Date: 2009-07-06 11:10 pm (UTC)I completely understand what you're saying. When the people in our lives change, the scenery around us changes, and what we do all day . . . well, completely changes, we cannot help but become new people.
We are sometimes jolted at a reminder of who we were in the past.
I taught college for twelve years, and much of that was spent teaching business writing. I have helped countless students prep their resumes and cover letters, and I loved my job. Every once in a while, one of them will drop me an email, and my mind rushes back, but it is a different "me" that I see in my mind.
My world and my life are different now. So am I.
I do understand your feelings.
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Date: 2009-07-07 03:33 am (UTC)I'm also finding it strangely fun to cook for one these days. I don't have to worry about people looking at the pan on the stove and going, "Ew, what's that?" (Yeah, nearly every day when the sister was with us.)