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Mar. 17th, 2005 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ann_leckieSad thing:
Andre Norton is no longer with us.
I read way more Andre Norton than was healthy for me, when I was a kid. I loved her stuff, and I've still got a huge stack of it. Even when I absolutely had to sell books for space/moving reasons, I didn't sell hers. It's a day that had to come eventually--at ninety-three, she's had a long life, and one that's touched many people--but still a sad day.
Happy thing:
I got an email today telling me I've been accepted to Clarion East!!!! I'm still jumping up and down and trying not to squeak. I also applied to Clarion West, and haven't heard from them. Does lightning strike twice? If it does, which one will I go to? Does it really matter? I'm going to Clarion!!!!
It's kind of a weird day. I go to pick up Paidhi Boy at nursery school, and my first impulse is to say to the teacher, "Hey, I'm going to Clarion! And Andre Norton passed on." I didn't say it--she'd have looked at me funny. Okay, funnier than usual.
Galleys for the Missouri Harmony have been turned in. The book will be out officially June 1, but the Missouri Historical Society says we may have a box of books before Memorial Day to take to Chicago and sell. (Big singing in Chicago that weekend.) Lots of people were asking about the book this weekend, at the Missouri State convention, and though they were disappointed it wasn't out yet, they were pleased to hear it might be available in Chicago in May.
Also, I knitted a pair of bright yellow socks from cheap acrylic in my scrap yarn box. It's been ages since I made socks--back when my mother was sick I made a pair in the waiting room while she was in surgery, and that was the first pair I'd ever made, I was very proud of them. I'm also very proud of my yellow ones, now, since they're beautiful in a kind of ugly way and I made them myself. Now I'm working on a pair for Paidhi Girl. In other knitting news, a few weeks ago I finally finished the sweater I'd been intending to knit for Mr. Cameron for, like, seven years. He was in line at the grocery store the other day when a lady a few places up turned around and said, "Someone must love you an awful lot, to knit you that beautiful sweater. I know that's got to be hand knitted." Heh. I'm proud of myself.
Doesn't take much, does it.
Andre Norton is no longer with us.
I read way more Andre Norton than was healthy for me, when I was a kid. I loved her stuff, and I've still got a huge stack of it. Even when I absolutely had to sell books for space/moving reasons, I didn't sell hers. It's a day that had to come eventually--at ninety-three, she's had a long life, and one that's touched many people--but still a sad day.
Happy thing:
I got an email today telling me I've been accepted to Clarion East!!!! I'm still jumping up and down and trying not to squeak. I also applied to Clarion West, and haven't heard from them. Does lightning strike twice? If it does, which one will I go to? Does it really matter? I'm going to Clarion!!!!
It's kind of a weird day. I go to pick up Paidhi Boy at nursery school, and my first impulse is to say to the teacher, "Hey, I'm going to Clarion! And Andre Norton passed on." I didn't say it--she'd have looked at me funny. Okay, funnier than usual.
Galleys for the Missouri Harmony have been turned in. The book will be out officially June 1, but the Missouri Historical Society says we may have a box of books before Memorial Day to take to Chicago and sell. (Big singing in Chicago that weekend.) Lots of people were asking about the book this weekend, at the Missouri State convention, and though they were disappointed it wasn't out yet, they were pleased to hear it might be available in Chicago in May.
Also, I knitted a pair of bright yellow socks from cheap acrylic in my scrap yarn box. It's been ages since I made socks--back when my mother was sick I made a pair in the waiting room while she was in surgery, and that was the first pair I'd ever made, I was very proud of them. I'm also very proud of my yellow ones, now, since they're beautiful in a kind of ugly way and I made them myself. Now I'm working on a pair for Paidhi Girl. In other knitting news, a few weeks ago I finally finished the sweater I'd been intending to knit for Mr. Cameron for, like, seven years. He was in line at the grocery store the other day when a lady a few places up turned around and said, "Someone must love you an awful lot, to knit you that beautiful sweater. I know that's got to be hand knitted." Heh. I'm proud of myself.
Doesn't take much, does it.