Coming Up For Air

Things I have been doing lately: Moving, preparing for a wedding, finishing up a massive work project.
Things I have not been doing lately: Blogging, sleep.

These things are not likely to change soon, but I did want to stop by and say hi and share some good news, now that the check has cleared: The fine people at Escape Pod have purchased another one of my Death Traps stories for podcast publication on some future date yet to be determined. Obviously, I will let you know when I find out more, but for now I can tell you that the title is Springtime for Death Traps and it is about, among other things, toads, calendars, career choices and what happens when you lock your keys inside the temple.

May I Be Excused?

I know I haven't been posting much here lately. The thing is, work has been kind of busy:

Maybe more than kind of.

Shoesday: Back On My Feet

As I have mentioned, my foray into early-morning bootcamping left me with one moderately damaged Achilles tendon, which I have been slowly nursing back to health by not doing any running and coming up with reasons to avoid swimming. But break time is just about over, because I made it 45 minutes on the elliptical the other day, and if this keeps up I might actually be able to participate in the half-marathon I signed up for in a burst of deeply unreasonable optimism. (I haven't run for two months and it's in October. What could possibly go wrong?)

I Am Lame

I had posts for both Winesday and Thurscheese planned, but they did not happen. I have no excuse. Perhaps I will pre-write them for next week, perhaps I won't. Either way, I'm going to have to come up with some thing for tomorrow, or this is going to become a pattern.

One Flu Over the Tempura's Nest

That's right, once again I am depriving you fried, crispy (or perhaps soggy, depending) goodness, this time depending on the excuse of a bad head cold. Which, admittedly, is largely finished by now, aside from the constant and annoying need to depressurize my head and occasional coughing fit, but I feel that the lack of full nasal capacity would hinder my judging ability*. Also, it's really hot.**


*The fact that I ended up eating at the (well air-conditioned) Outback at the mall, splitting a steak sandwich with my roommate and getting moderately drunk on very silly beverages, should not be considered as factors in this matter.
**For here.