Almost on the road again
Nov. 25th, 2008 02:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desayunoencamaIt's 2am so technically Tuesday already. Can't believe I need to pack again so I can head to Valencia later today. Sigh.
Although I'm looking forward to the trip, since this is the first presentation of this new book.
My very first presentation in Spain was in Valencia, in the late, lamented bookstore El Cobertizo, run by Juan Alberni. This was the year before I moved to Spain, and was one of the nice incentives for my moving there: I had published over 20 books in the U.S., but this was the first time a publisher had toured me anywhere. (I was in Madrid on my own dime en route to the Frankfurt Book Fair, and the publisher paid to send me down to Valencia since the bookstore had requested me and they put me up for the night in a hotel.)
Very busy day, juggling as fast as I can on too many open fronts, and still very groggy in the am from jet-lag, alas. (Good thing the event on Wednesday hits in the mid-afternoon when I'm lately wide-awake! :->) But I think it was productive overall.
Hopefully will be able to get to some more things in the morning, before heading off.
Alas, my laptop battery is in its final throes: it no longer even gives that warning of "you are on reserve power" or whatever it used to say, it just shuts off randomly, and sooner than it used to. Bother.
But when I'd tried to buy a new battery when I was back in NYC, they didn't have for my little ibook G4. Sigh. Must try and look online or something, when things settle down and I have a spare moment...
(I do have a spare battery, I always buy an extra when I buy a laptop--among other things, the flight between Madrid and NY is too long for a single battery00, but I don't really use it any more because, as I recall, it was dying and I switched to this one. Unless I confused them and this is actually the dying one and the other is still good...??? Too much to hope for.)
Although I'm looking forward to the trip, since this is the first presentation of this new book.
My very first presentation in Spain was in Valencia, in the late, lamented bookstore El Cobertizo, run by Juan Alberni. This was the year before I moved to Spain, and was one of the nice incentives for my moving there: I had published over 20 books in the U.S., but this was the first time a publisher had toured me anywhere. (I was in Madrid on my own dime en route to the Frankfurt Book Fair, and the publisher paid to send me down to Valencia since the bookstore had requested me and they put me up for the night in a hotel.)
Very busy day, juggling as fast as I can on too many open fronts, and still very groggy in the am from jet-lag, alas. (Good thing the event on Wednesday hits in the mid-afternoon when I'm lately wide-awake! :->) But I think it was productive overall.
Hopefully will be able to get to some more things in the morning, before heading off.
Alas, my laptop battery is in its final throes: it no longer even gives that warning of "you are on reserve power" or whatever it used to say, it just shuts off randomly, and sooner than it used to. Bother.
But when I'd tried to buy a new battery when I was back in NYC, they didn't have for my little ibook G4. Sigh. Must try and look online or something, when things settle down and I have a spare moment...
(I do have a spare battery, I always buy an extra when I buy a laptop--among other things, the flight between Madrid and NY is too long for a single battery00, but I don't really use it any more because, as I recall, it was dying and I switched to this one. Unless I confused them and this is actually the dying one and the other is still good...??? Too much to hope for.)
