This has to be my what, seven millionth time rewriting the prologue of Alien Blue? This week: a huge stack of AB edits that I should have addressed already. I pulled them off into their own little pile and saw the first chapter comments for the new book, which I now want to work on, […]
I perfected the beer batter recipe tonight. Batter:1 c all-purpose flour2 T cornstarch1 t baking powder1 T salt1 egg1c beer –I just adjusted the salt. Make sure to dredge the stuff in flour first; the batter seems to stick better. Fried: Button mushrooms, tilapia, white onions (sliced very thin to offset their stronger flavor), pickle
I ordered some tea from Stash tea. Of all days, it arrived today, when I cannot truly appreciate anything other than the taste of salt and vitamins. (I had a six-fruits-in-every-bottle! white people juice with vitamins in it and all I could taste was the vitamins.) I had ordered pu-erh tea and some other stuff.
We have a hard time remembering how to say “fruiteria” (“fruitereria? fruitorama? fruitarena?”) so we ended up calling the place “Fruitopia.” Which turned out to be exactly the case. So last Saturday it’s bad out, the kind of gray snowishness that promises to work its way between the cracks of your house and freeze you
Send us your vitamin-rich thoughts.
Taught Ray how to elicit toots from a bottle today. As always, the experience of successfully teaching something comes to me as a miracle: I say stuff, and suddenly the light goes on, but the connection between the two isn’t as straight a line as the ego would like. She did the work. I just
Lee has spent a considerable (and considerate) amount of time setting up the computer IN MY OFFICE for me. AHAHAHAHAHA! I can’t tell you how good this feels, how nerve-wrackingly good. I had been trying to pick out the perfect desk, but I abandoned that plan in favor of a cheap-ass-but-for-all-practical-purposes-perfect desk. The room is
First of all, I’ve been trying to figure out whether I should call this the “Hispanic” or “Mexican” grocery store project. It would be more PC but less accurate to call it “Hispanic,” as the grocery stores to not appear to cater to wider, pan-Hispanic tastes. Here’s the deal. During January-February, I worked on getting
I send hugs to the gay couples I knew in Iowa. Hopefully this helps with the adoption situation, too. A couple I knew had started proceedings to adopt a little boy they had fostered, but he was taken away when the social agency found out they were gay and wanted to adopt instead of just
I had two readers for Alien Blue in the ABNA contest. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it to semi-finals, but I did get these two reviews back, see? And while semi-finals were announced March 15th, the reviews just came back today. Understandable; the staff needed to sleep for two weeks, and April 1st would have been
