May 6, 2007
They Can Put a Man on the Moon, but They Can’t Make a Coffee Pot that Doestn’t Drip When You Pour
Good morning all. I have been very neglectful of my blog of late, but I’ve been completely buried these past weeks. For a woman who doesn’t work outside the home, I seem to have a lot on my plate lately.
On the writing front:
I’m coming up to one year since I sent out my full of Living Lies. The editor who requested it has left the publisher so I’m not sure where that leaves me. As for Witch, I sent out eight submissions to publishers and received rejections from two. I’m still struggling with my Blood and Bone rewrite, but I’ve been rereading the entire MS and I’m wondering if the changes I’d planned are really just over complicating the story. I think I need to just rewrite the thing as is, and stop worrying about crap like whether or not hero and heroine meet in chapter 2 versus chapter 3.
I’ve always believed that something like that would not stop publisher from buying the book if they truly loved the story, so I don’t know why I’m obsessing about now.
My WIP is going well, or at least it was until this past week. I put it on hold to catch up on everything else I was doing. Starting today, I’m back at it.
I had planned to do more gardening today (blech!) but yesterday I got badly sunburned and my shoulder and wrist are killing me from digging and pulling weeds. (Side note–I hate grass.)
There’s only two months left in the school year and I think I might be almost as excited as my DS to see it come to a close. I have developed a special hatred for his teacher. Now, lest you think this is just an overprotective parent (which I am) who can’t accept that her precious might not be so precious when he’s with his friends (Ha!) I would like to point out that so far two other children in his class have been pulled out because this woman had them so terrified to go school.
DS isn’t afraid of the woman, and perhaps that’s what aggravates her so much about him. Not that he can’t be a brat, but most of my friends have boys and I’ve yet to see one who does what he’s told the first time he’s asked. Anyway, after a few conversations with her, I was concerned enough to go to the principal. The principal assured me that he was doing fine so now I’m coasting to the end of the year–or trying to. Every time DS steps out of line I get a note home.
Like on Thursday. I got a note home telling me that DS saw some newly sharpened pencils and yelled out ‘HOLY SHIT!’ Now, I naturally yelled at him and sent him to his room, taking away T.V. and video games, but I have to admit I did kind of get a chuckle over this. I realize he’s at an age where he’s going to be experimenting with swear words, but I would like to think he would have enough common sense not to use these words in the classroom. DS told me on Friday one of the little girls in his class said Shit while they were playing a game in classroom.
No doubt I’ll be getting a note home about that on Monday. 
Music: Honestly - Annie Lennox
Mood: Amused
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