Early mornings

I think the problem with getting up early is that I wind up too tired later on to unwind by reading... Or maybe it's the not-having-read-inthree-days that makes me feel so tired?

Maybe I'm just a bit busy right now, too. Deadlines: feh!

I got up around 10 this morning, and managed to translate a handful of poems from Spanish into English, and the second half of the picture book from English into Spanish. (But all while sitting in Cafes, I really need to spend some time sitting in front of the computer and type things up.)

Plus ran all sorts of errands, and managed to vacuum the living room a bit, since my friend Xose Luis is showing up tomorrow morning--alas, bright and early at 8:30am when the train from Galicia gets in to Madrid; gah!--and will be crashing with me for a night or few.

Had an interesting lunch talking about both English and Spanish gay poetry with a Spaniard who lived in Boston when he was getting his MBA; I think he actually came to two Outwrite conferences that I was also out, including the one that I co-programmed with Cecilia Tan.

(One of the reasons I left the country was to never agree to run another convention. Although I forgot, and did get suckered into running the International SCBWI conference in Madrid two years ago...)

Tomorrow is going to be full of coffees with writers: at 1pm, 5:30pm, and 7:30pm. Not to mention breakfast with Xose Luis when he shows up bright and early. Maybe it's time for me to go crash... :-)

LCRW

As posted elsewhere, the new issue of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is out, at least back in the U.S. Copies have not yet been reported in lower Europe.

The table of contents for this issue can be found here: http://www.lcrw.net/issues/lcrw15.htm

This issue has work from truepenny, ogre_san, and Sara and my text-and-image piece, "The Well-Dressed Wolf," among others.