And on the day the wire is spun
Feb. 8th, 2018 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ashlymeWhen I saw last night's news about Cheddar Man, my first reaction was a headline - First Britons give the finger to Britain First. It cheered me: sometimes you have to take hope where you can.
There hasn't been much to today - I got the Kiernan article in to the editor. I stil hate writing bio-sketches of myself but am comfortable now using gender-neutral pronouns in them. Seeing he/him in old bios just feels a bit jarring now. Had an e-mail from Mark Valentine asking for an essay for Wormwood, this time on Jocelyn Brooke. The Concrete Child got its second rejection. I submitted it somewhere else rather than mope.
I was poking about recent donations at the shop yesterday. I found but didn't buy a ninety-year old book on television; I would have bought the tape box set of Radio 4's LOTR but the first four episodes were missing. I did sell this thing that looked to me either like a horse's bridle or some bit of BDSM kit but turned out to be a ring-style puzzle from New York. You wonder how these things end up in a Midlands charity shop.
There hasn't been much to today - I got the Kiernan article in to the editor. I stil hate writing bio-sketches of myself but am comfortable now using gender-neutral pronouns in them. Seeing he/him in old bios just feels a bit jarring now. Had an e-mail from Mark Valentine asking for an essay for Wormwood, this time on Jocelyn Brooke. The Concrete Child got its second rejection. I submitted it somewhere else rather than mope.
I was poking about recent donations at the shop yesterday. I found but didn't buy a ninety-year old book on television; I would have bought the tape box set of Radio 4's LOTR but the first four episodes were missing. I did sell this thing that looked to me either like a horse's bridle or some bit of BDSM kit but turned out to be a ring-style puzzle from New York. You wonder how these things end up in a Midlands charity shop.
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Date: 2018-02-09 09:14 am (UTC)Well, that's no use! I hope you come across the full set soon. (It does actually seem to be a thing that libraries have and sometimes even counts as free as an audiobook, depending on their charges policy.)
Sorry about the rejection.
And that is a good headline. Did anyone go for it? (Probably not...)
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Date: 2018-02-09 04:54 pm (UTC)Knowing my erratic luck I'll find it when I'm looking for something else! I can't stand rereading the trilogy but I'll happily listen to it.
*Sorry about the rejection.*
Not to worry! I've sent it out somewhere else. Plus I got paid for the article I submitted so that works wonders. :)
A couple of people liked the headline on Facebook, at least!