I am taking this opportunity to answer some of the questions posed by me, myself, yesterday.
So.
1. Not much more, I don't think. Today he only put up with a few spoonfuls before growing tired of it and refusing to open his mouth again.
2. Yes! I just did. Pretty thrilled about it.
3. Some reading is due. The speaker canceled, too, which means we'll be working in small groups. Groan. Some people know how I feel about working in groups: not entirely good.
4. Holy crap, so far six slices of toast, and considering it's only Tuesday, I'm doing fairly well, I think. Almost through the first jar of jam, too. Or jelly. I can never remember which is which.
5. Since #2 has been answered, and since I mentioned YA MS the Second on the phone with the receptive agent in question, I suppose I better get on that in full. That will be my Thursday evening, I expect.
6. Today it has a little. So yay for that!
In other news, I am now in my third week of obsession with Squeeze's "Vicky Verky." If there is a better, more positive, more optimistic song about abortion, I haven't heard it yet. (I bit that line very slightly from a very old friend, and I don't think he'll mind.) Anyway, I have been thinking about writing a novel based on that one song. That's how rich Glenn Tilbrook's characters often are. I'm sure the urge will pass.
Or maybe "Separate Beds." That's such a YA too. Not quite the oomph, though, that "VV" has.
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I think both songs could fit around the same two characters; so why choose one? In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to find that in Chris Difford's mind, it was the same two characters in both.
February 24, 2009 at 3:41 PMI really hope you write that book. I've imagined this story thousands of times in my head. You could really mine those guys for a lifetime of very good material.
On other topics, I envy Sam. I think I was 18 the first time I tasted avocado (it was in the form of guacamole, naturally). I really wish I could get those 18 avocado-free years back and do them over right--it's such a wast.
Yeah, absolutely. In fact, you got Slap and Tickle, VV, Separate Beds . . . Up the Junction?? Kinda sad to think so, but it works if you let it.
February 24, 2009 at 3:46 PMOf course, once you get to Up the Junction, it's less YA and more John Updike, but that's a whole other thing.
And I know. I too am jealous. I don't even know the first time I had avocado, but it was very likely toward the end of the list of ingredients in Taco Bell's "guac."
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