Go me! Stop, sky!

Posted by on Jun 30, 2005 in dish | 0 comments FINALLY my revisions are finished, my new synopsis is in good shape, and I’m ready to take the whole thing to the post office. Or UPS. Or FedEx, given the difficulty Crash Test had arriving in Florida with the post office and UPS (complete messy story here and here). That is, I’m off if it will STOP. RAINING!!!Today’s Orlando Sentinel says that this is the second-rainiest June...
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Rain, Rain, Go Away…

Posted by on Jun 5, 2005 in dish | 0 comments It is MONSOON season in Central Florida. Seriously. We tend to have wet weather quite often–every day at 4:00 pm during the summer–but the past week has been ridiculous. Suddenly, we’re Seattle. We’re talking rain every day, all day, for the past seven days. The Weather Channel isn’t predicting any change for the next week. Scattered thunderstorms every day through...
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Up on the Roof

Posted by on Mar 2, 2005 in dish | 1 comment Yesterday, I came home to the most wonderful sight in the world.ROOFERS!!There’s no way non-Floridians can understand the sheer ecstasy of real, live, roofers with real, live power tools. I’m sure you all know about the hurricanes (God knows we do; we were told we were going to DIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE immediately for six weeks straight last summer). What you may not know about is the...
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Weather Wuss

Posted by on Jan 24, 2005 in dish | 0 comments So I wake up this morning and it’s 37 degrees. Did I mention that I hate being cold? That the only thing worse than being cold is being wet and cold? That once I catch a chill, it takes for-freakin’-ever to warm back up again? This is Sunny Florida, for goodness sakes! Where’s the heat?? Then I read in the paper that Boston’s buried under two feet of snow. I feel for...
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