blonde

The photo above was taken by Daniel Glasser (Jodi, Allison and me, performing "Life Is A Bowl Of Oreo Cookies" in honour of Lissa), modified in Photoshop by Chris Conway. So now I know what I'd look like as a blonde. :-)

Thanks to Gary McGath for sending the photo below, which he took during Joey Shoji's concert at FilKONtario. From left to right: me, Allison, Jodi, Anke, Joey, Dave Weingart.





My FKO time off was fun, but I'm back into workmode now. Upcoming deadlines: short story collab with Michelle, my new marketing and promotion column for Writing-World.com, some Web work I'm doing for Moira Allen. JBR called last night and said he saw my piece in the current issue of Cottage Life magazine (he has a subscription); I have to remember to go buy a copy tomorrow!

I've also been invited to take the "Hot Seat" in misc.writing next Tuesday. I haven't decided whether this is an honour or a punishment yet. :-) From what I can tell, people in the Hot Seat basically do an often intense online Q&A session in the newsgroup. Sometimes the discussion gets pretty heated and erupts into a flamewar. Sometimes several flamewars.

I'm a bit nervous (I suspect I might get grilled about the whole Inkspot/Xlibris experience) but also looking forwards to it. I've been lurking in misc.writing since returning from my sabbatical, wanting to participate more but feeling somewhat shy about it. Nothing like a baptism by fire to force me to start speaking up more. :-)

re: shyness. I've always thought of myself as shy, though I know that some who see me performing with Urban Tapestry would disagree. :-) Funny thing is, I find that sometimes acting goofy on stage is a great cover-up for my deeply-ingrained shyness. Does that make any sense? I'm sure some of you are also thinking, "Yeah right, how can you be shy and have a public online journal?!" Good point, except that only a tiny percentage of what's going on in my head ever makes it into my Blatherings (and that could be reassuring or scary, depending on how well you know me :-)).

Poll Question: Do you consider yourself an introvert or extrovert? Post your answer in Blatherchat.

Jeff and I had some of Dave's leftover chili for dinner last night. It tasted even better than the day before!

Going through some post-con blues and really missing people right now.

Glad I have a ton of work to do. :-)