Road Trip Recap

[lagilman]

Although the turnout was light for the first-ever NJ Writers Conference, the energy and enthusiasm was high, and people really got into the "Blending Genres" workshop, although I may never get the image of a vampire Nazi tooth fairy out of my mind. *shudder* Signed/sold a bunch of books, and did a reading from FLESH AND FIRE that had people coming up to get info on the release date, so yay!

[October 13th, in case y'all haven't been paying attention)

Then Gary and I fled the premises and made our merry way to Atlantic City proper, where I had atypical bad luck -- but was seated next to very cute boys in suits, so the view made up for the cards -- followed by a stroll on the boardwalk,and thence -- at 1am -- to Denny's where I had serious flashbacks to several episodes of my misspent youth. It was, however, a surprisingly clean, well-lit, friendly and people-staffed (as opposed to zombies) Denny's, with nary a Garth Brooks fan in sight (in-joke for otterdance)

This morning I grabbed breakfast and headed out for the Road Trip portion of the weekend -- wending my slow, very relaxed way back north via back roads filled with flea markets, antique fairs, and oceanfront zen, wherein I spent a few hours spent reclaiming a part of my past.

My zen, let me show you it.


And now the mind is clear, the well refilled, and I'm looking forward to a rather, erm, busy week, including having a story shredded by the crit group, doing a video interview @ S&S, and various social whirls....

EtA: cats don't know I'm going away next weekend, too. Slowly getting them ready for the Big Leave...

Comments

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

Hey, your zen looks just like my zen!

Glad it was a good trip.

[lagilman]

Yeah, except there weren't many other people on the beach, which is much of the zen-ness. Can't do walking medication (EtA: medication? snerk. Meditation. More coffee!) when there are children shrieking or loud music playing or beer-drinking yahoos yelling to each other.

(I was really annoyed, actually, that the weather turned warm enough that there were die-hards still sunbathing. I wanted a barren autumn beach damn it! But there were long stretches of empty, too. Just me and the occasional napping fisherdude.)

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

Well, one of the things I love about OBX is that you get an entire area of beach to yourself, most days.... no music or beer etc etc. :)