Today: writers’ group meeting, parent-teacher conference, reading the page proofs for Mission Canyon, reviewing the copyedited manuscript of Crosscut, feeding and chauffeuring two high school boys we’re (unexpectedly) housing during a rugby tournament, and attending a lecture in London. Also: writing 2,000 words of the new novel.
Later, y’all.
8 responses so far ↓
Monita // March 6, 2008 at 8:21 pm
And in your spare time?
Sharon K // March 6, 2008 at 10:09 pm
What was the lecture in London?
Snart // March 6, 2008 at 11:27 pm
What? I thought you had a ton of free time when you weren’t writing your little stories! Though, I guess those don’t take that much time, being as how they’re only fiction, and crime thrillers at that!
Monita // March 7, 2008 at 12:03 am
Snart: Danger, Will Robinson! Danger, Will Robinson!
Ken // March 7, 2008 at 6:23 am
Meg, we cannot take you seriously, you write fiction.
Meg // March 7, 2008 at 10:59 am
Sharon, it was a travel lecture at the Royal Geographic Society by BBC news correspondent Frank Gardner. Good stuff, and in support of charity.
Snart, I know where you live.
And I must fess up. My husband handled the feeding and chauffeuring. But then he does all the nurturing.
Snart // March 7, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Meg, I’ve moved. And, yes, Paul does all the nurturing…as he has pointed out for 22 years.
A travel lecture by Frank Gardner. Bet it was excellent! How is his recovery?
Meg // March 9, 2008 at 11:42 am
Yep, excellent. Lively stories told with self-effacing humor, involving everything from hissing baboons to a sword-wielding Sudanese tribesman. (Gardner convinced the man to sell him the sword, which he and his wife later used to cut the cake at their wedding.) His recovery is what it is; he calls himself “wheelchair-based.” The “life goes on” portion of the lecture included scuba diving, taking the kids to the Thai rainforest, and driving a snowmobile through the wilderness in Washington state to report on U.S. Air Force survival training.
The talk was in support of Motivation, a charity that provides mobility aids to people with disabilities in developing countries.
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