IB Pissed

Posted by mimi on Jun 20, 2009 in dish | 0 comments I don’t know about you, but sometimes professional conferences are a pain in my considerable behind. Today’s is no exception. I’m at a gorgeous beach resort–no complaints there–with nice food and a room that’s about a hundred feet from the Gulf of Mexico. Fine. Dandy.What’s not fine, or even approaching dandy, is the veritable avalanche of paper I got...
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Off to the Races

Posted by mimi on Jun 18, 2009 in dish | 1 comment The reworked idea for The Five Step Plan and the proposal for Life After Little League are now on their way to Dream Agent. Let’s hope she’s happier with the rework–if she is, I can salvage some main story elements. If not, we’re talking total rebuild (which I’m not wanting to do, but…). Now I’m back to the YA ideas. Who knew designing an entire...
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If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another

Posted by mimi on Jun 17, 2009 in dish | 1 comment Adding to the insult of no money coming in all summer (two teacher household, remember?), today I hear this weird griiiiinnnddd-CLUNK sound from one of my back windows. Yep, now it’s stuck down. All the way down. And this is Florida, where we have a thunderstorm every day at 4:00 p.m.Great. Lacking the several hundred bucks it will take to fix the window (stupid VW window regulators are...
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