Home again, home again

With a bottle of water from Detroit, but without my luggage. Not so much a fan of NorthWest Air.

The airline said my bag would be returned to me today. I eagerly await its arrival.

At no airport I went through (DFW, Minneapolis, Detroit, Bradley) were bags searched for contraband liquids or gels, or was security any worse than it has been. Bradley had some strange new machine that puffed air in order to test for chemicals, but half the people in line didn't have to walk through it. It seemed like a thing whose purpose was to scare cats.

In short, Connecticut is gorgeous, New York was a lot of fun, and a good time was had, even if I was pmsing for most of it, and had still not recovered from the introvert-fit inspired by Arkansas and my in-laws. Also, Ellen Datlow is allowed to take pictures of me, while slushgod is not.

I have some pictures, and will try to get them up on Flickr today.

Now that I'm home, I have to quickly turn in edits for some fancy editors, and then...crawl back to the novel.

A little drop of squee

I have been authorized by my infernal masters editors to squee in public. So, Ideomancer is buying "The Garden, The Moon, The Wall"! I have written and sold a sequel!

I really wish I knew what happened to its namesake bracelet.

I also wish I knew where my suitcase was.

I can't avoid the novel any longer, can I?

New England adventures

NE - Church
Originally uploaded by Amanda Oestman.

As promised, pictures of Hartford and New York.

The upper text on this banner says "Do not place a period where God has placed a comma." God does not need copyedits.

I opened TDC today after I finished the Ideo edits, and stared at it a while. It's been 20 days since I worked on it, and wow, it shows. So I printed out the whole thing to read and tweak to get me back in the mood. I think I will take Isyllt & co to bed now, and poke them till they start talking again.

I still want my suitcase. If I have to go to work with frizzy hair tomorrow due to lack of product, I'm sueing TSA and NWA for psychological damages.