7/24/05: Miscellany

[davidlevine]

• Kate and I just sent a new issue of our fanzine Bento off to the printer. We'll have copies at the Worldcon, and mailed copies will be sent out shortly after we return. Promise!

• I just got another rejection on my story "Interview with the Photographer." It's a 6100-word far-future SF tale that involves the construction of a Dyson sphere and the destruction of several planets. It's now bounced from Cosmic Tales from the Far Future, Analog, Interzone , Asimov's, F&SF, F&SF again after a rewrite, SciFi.com, Strange Horizons, Oceans of the Mind, and Aeon, and I'm at a loss where to send it next. I really like this one, it's gotten very encouraging rejections, and think it deserves publication. But where?

• I just sent off another of my irregular "David's Writing News" emails. If you don't get one and would like one (or, for that matter, if you got one and don't want any more), drop me a note.

• I hate my hair. I'm growing out the sides, and they are now long enough to fly out like wings but not yet long enough that I can pull them into the ponytail. This situation is going to get worse for another couple of months before it gets better, I think.

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

... just saw "Sideways" last night. Glad you're published at least! "Encouraging rejections" must be like waiting for Christmas on December 26.

... you could probably go for a mullet. It was all the rage with lesbians in the 80s, but for my money, I'd say "time for a buzz!"

[deedop.livejournal.com]

Save me a Bento, wouldya?

[katybeth]

Barrettes. The little metal snap kind.

[davidlevine]

I can hold onto one for you for the next time I see you (which would be when?), or I could put one in the mail when we get back from Scotland if I had a snail-mail address for you (which I don't).

[davidlevine]

Um... yeah.

Uh-huh...

[damascene.livejournal.com]

I hate my hair. I'm growing out the sides, and they are now long enough to fly out like wings but not yet long enough that I can pull them into the ponytail. This situation is going to get worse for another couple of months before it gets better, I think.

I know that stage, I've been through it several times, so I will forthwith pass along the most absolutely important advice I've ever received while being in that stage; it was from kalmn just a few years ago, the latest time I grew out my front hair, and I wished then that I'd been friends with her long before then so she could have told me sooner: "Hair bands are your friends in this stage. Staplers are not, no matter how they call to you and try to tell you that they are."

I didn't ask her how she'd learned that.

[sallytuppence.livejournal.com]

I thought of Bento the other day because our local Japanese restauraunt just started serving bento boxes for lunch.

Save it for your collection, dude.

Got the writing news email. Yeah!

Hair. I hate that awkward in-between time, too.

[amysisson.livejournal.com]

David, got your writing news e-mail -- congrats on too many fronts to mention individually! You've worked hard and deserve every success!

See you in Scotland! (I'll be watching for the barettes!)

[davidlevine]

Staples... hmm... tempting...

<snaps out of it>

Hey, is there any chance you might slip a Fiddler's Green program book into your Worldcon luggage for me? Mine never did arrive.

[damascene.livejournal.com]

Oops, you did ask me for another one and I forgot when I got home, sorry. I've just added a packet to the stack-o-things which must be packed for The Scottish Trip. See you there!

[davidlevine]

Ta.