2005-07-21 - 10:01 a.m.

so far on eBay i've made about $150. that's gross, not net.
the eBay fees eat you alive. well, maybe not.
then there's shipping and handling, which i don't charge excess for. in reality i've probably made about $120. but that's $120 i didn't have before--AND my "bag" area is looking more like the "bag" area of a normal human being and less like the "bag" area of a "bag" lady--ha! ha!
oh, god, i just kill me.
wooooo.
it is only a brief five days until i leave for the homeland. the next couple of days, thursday and friday, are really my only days to straighten up and fly right. maybe sunday will be OK, but saturday we are having a very old friend of my up to ride and swim--sort of triathlon training.
sunday i want to go mountain biking and then it's Peggy's birthday that day, so i have to find her something good for her birfday.
maybe i'll be able to *make* her something, like a set of xmas cards...or ooooh oooooh maybe a set of Sprocket cards! hmmm! now there's an idea!
i like making gifts. i'm just generally too swamped for it.
i am aiming to finish my novel before i take off. i want to be able to ship it off to jen, the editor who's working with me, and the fatabulous Kate, before i actually leave. then, as i'm gone for three and a half whole weeks, perhaps Jen will have some news for me when i get back.
hopefully it will be good news. i am really really tired of bad news.
i mean, i guess it hasn't been all bad. in fact, it's been quite good. Jen's been really good to me to actually read the thing and feel good enough about it to then pass it on to her colleagues AND then work with me outside of contract. it's pretty terrific, actually.
so i want to do right by her. which is why, i think i'm kinda dawdling on the revisions. they've proven to be hard work. and i find myself (and this is really weird) stalling the minute i get started on a good train of thought. like, i'll start typing, and get halfway through what i want to write, and think to myself, hey, yeah, that's pretty good, and then, right on the heels of that, i'll think, i'm tired. let's see what's on the tube. which is just very strange.
goodness. fortunately i manage to get rid of those thoughts pretty quickly.
oh, have i even mentioned where i'm going?
i have to go to taiwan for about two weeks and then i'm off to the canadian rockies with my parents and brother.
we'll just see how that goes. i'm reserving judgement until i actually get there. it's just going to be me and my father in taiwan for a week and then i'm on my own for the next week and then it's back home again.
it's going to be 92 today. and it's going to be humid again. i am so tired of humidity. whose idea was this, anyway.
thank goodness for air conditioning.

 

 

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