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Love and ferrets and pretending to be a writer.

2004-01-21 7:27 PM
nylon and Geoffrey Landis

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The ferrets are: eating, following a hard romp

Weather: getting cold again

Reading: The 1989 Annual World's Best SF

Listening to in the car: Saint Maybe , Anne Tyler

Nylon is a strange fabric. When you wear pantyhose it makes your legs and all too hot, and your feet cold. Not sure how that works. My feet are cold tonighyt. I put on some nice warm wool socks to warm them up, and then while I ate dinner I put my foot down on the floor -- imagine that! -- and into some water. I was sitting by the dog's water bowl, which a certain ferret considers to be her wading pool.

I keep feeling ferrets at my feet even when they are not there. I actually feel something brush my right heel, and there is nothing there. I feel it when i am sitting in this chair. I am not sure if it's habit of something being there, since that's the greeting point Sally uses, or if there's something wrong with the way my nerves are working beacuse of the chair, or a brain fart. It is minor, and I don't care, except to find it mildly interesting.

Geoff Landis, who was one of my Clarion instructors, is in Pasadena doing things with the Mars rovers. He is thrilled about it, and so is his wife, my friend, Mary Turzillo. The current pair of landers are so much better than the old ones. We should be able to get a lot of good information from them. It is possible we'll find out that there was once life on Mars. I don't think we will find out that that there never was any life there, as it's difficult to prove a negative.

Geoff has a story in the book I am reading now, "Ripples in the Dirac Sea." It's good, like all of his other stuff that I have read, except for one story about a penis that I didn't care for. I was going to say that maybe it is that I did not care for it personally and that it might have been a perfectly good story. Alas, such would not be the case. Geoff autographed the Dirac sea story for me, writing, in addition to his signature, which is what an autograph actually is, "For Kathy -- Keep writing, damnit." He wrote a very good novel about Mars, Mars Crossing, that won him the Locus best first novel of the year award in 2001. Here is a link to Geoff's website.

My facts might be off a bit. But not all of them, and not all of the time.

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