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[shadesong]

I am still waiting.

But I dyed the tips of my hair a bright, vivid pink (that is fading, but we'll bring it back) and highlighted the rest of it. I have started the reclamation of my backyard; it's going to have berry bushes and a seating area and a raised bed and an herb spiral. I have, with my boyfriend's input, picked out my future new bed.

Readercon was; the ongoing waiting made it difficult, as it makes many things difficult. But I talked about a book that changed my life (Dhalgren) on a panel, and the man who wrote it (Samuel R. Delany) thanked me, genuinely, for my reading and appreciation of it. That was a big, big moment. And I read from the novel, and everyone really liked it and picked up on stuff I was doing and thought I was doing it really well.

Friday night, I went to a barbecue at the house of a friend who is new-ish, since The Incident. There's a before and after, you know. There are people who've only really known me since. He greeted me with a hug and told me there were kofta on the grill, the same recipe that another friend(/occasional lover) had brought to my Pig Cotillion, and I liked that there was just this ecosystem of parties. Aimee's realizing that, as she lives here, this very very large group of wonderful people that just form and reform in various configurations every weekend, sometimes with the transmission of recipes. I am happy to be here.

And then we went to a burlesque/comedy/variety show, where I saw some of my favorite performers, and the people who knew about the Intimidating Thing I'm attempting (more on that after my audition!) (no, it is not dancing!) were so enthusiastic about me attempting it and so happy that I just felt... tremendously supported.

And seen.

(Witness me!)

I am excited about the New Horizons mission to Pluto. I'm reading a lot. I'm knitting a lot. I will, this week, have my first writing time since March, and I have a story demanding to get out. Before that writing time, I have a date-day with my boyfriend, who is sort of miraculously my boyfriend. He decided he didn't need a code name, and then the potential code names started emerging: Golden Retriever Boyfriend, Farmboy, etc. Matthew. He's Matthew, and one of the things about him is that he is joyful. I have to write about him more, and other people I'm on various paths with. I haven't been writing here because it feels like I have to have Large Things to say and I have the one background Large Thing and then I have smaller things. I should talk about the smaller things more.

It's been a busy and active weekend, and today I'll be resting, because tonight I'm going to a show, and tomorrow is Matthew, and on Tuesday I'll start writing "The Hollow" and will hope it doesn't insist on being a novel. (Everything wants to be a novel know that I know that I can write a novel.)

Wearing: The tank top and underpants I slept in.
Reading: On the Move by Oliver Sacks
Writing: "The Hollow", soon
Knitting: Dewberry in hot pink for Elayna; just finished a Through the Loops MKAL.
Planning: A week of writing. An Intimidating Thing. Buying my new bed, hopefully soon.

Comments

[lawbabeak.livejournal.com]

Oh, tell me Golden Retriever Boy is bouncing and loving and a bit shaggy, and not so ditzy that he's in a whole new world every 23 seconds!

I miss the regular potlucks of my old home. The visiting, the recipe sharing, the trying new things. I am in the land of casseroles and old standbys and meat-on-the-grill. I need to find a grilled vegetarian something that I like.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Bouncy and loving and delights everyone in the room, but not shaggy, and not ditzy. :)

EDIT: The golden retriever thing: http://heavenscalyx.tumblr.com/post/125095092651/desertqueenfuriosa-pacific-rim-well-written

:)

(And he has the build and haircut of Chris Evans as Captain America. But dark hair. And he wears glasses, which makes anyone 20% cuter.)

*wave*

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you (almost) have a new bed and fun knitting, and intimidating new thing that requires an audition, and a boyfriend, and a cute small dog, and a 20% cuter-than-without-glasses husband, and a fantastic Elayna, and all those things that bring joy to your life. I like hearing about all those things, the small daily joys as well as the forks (and other cutlery) in the road. Write us as you can; all the rest of the time, just know that there's quiet happiness out here, and quiet support at the other times, too.

*hug*

[moonfire77.livejournal.com]

Oh you should totally go with Farmboy!