I'm Back...
Once again, I dropped off the face of the earth, but I had all sorts of good reasons - really!
First, Mark and I spent a long weekend down on the Outer Banks (barrier islands in North Carolina.) We ate way too much beach food (ah... chocolate and peppermint and cinnamon salt water taffy...) and visited the Wright Brothers Memorial (amazing to think how rapidly air travel advanced!) and drove to the Cape Hatteras light house (or "light station" as they called it in all official publications) and walked on the beach and read and slept and generally hung out without Blackberry reception. (My favorite restaurant: The diner-y dive where we ate breakfast two mornings, called "Bob's Eat and Get the Hell Out." (They were actually much more hospitable than that!))
Then, I was back in town for a few days of work craziness.
Then, Mark and I headed up to New York. Our accountant is in Manhattan, and we needed to get the dreaded taxes done. (Suffice to say, they weren't as dread as feared - we missed a higher tax bracket by $700, meaning that we actually get a small refund rather than owe thousands that I was afraid we'd owe.) Before that business meeting, we saw the new Aaron Sorkin play, THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION (about David Sarnoff, Philo Farnsworth, the invention of television, and man's inhumanity to man - great language, some very interesting staging, not perfect, but well worth the price of attending.) We also went to the BODIES exhibit down at South Street Seaport - a collection of real human bodies, dissected and preserved, to illustrate various body systems, diseases, etc (eerie, gory, fascinating, surreal, and the root of a couple of new stories...) Then, we crossed the Brooklyn Bridge - a stunning excursion, with the cables changing the view around us with every step (after we finally *got* to the pedestrian walkway, which took some meandering across roads where peds were never meant to X.) We ate some great meals, enjoyed the Club Level at the Westin (where I'd received a discount room due to the huge amount of work travel I've been doing - further discounted when the hotel couldn't check us in until 3.5 hours after check-in, due to other travellers stays being prolonged unexpectedly), and generally remembered why NYC is a great place to visit (but still wouldn't want to live there!)
Then, I met with my agent to discuss my Super Secret Project. I've got a few more details to pull together, and then we'll be submitting. It's hard to type with fingers crossed!
Then, I worked in our NY office for a couple of days, including attending a high-end seminar on law library management.
And now, I'm home. Home, with cats glued to my lap. Home, with tons of writing projects piled up. Home with tons of to-be-reads piled up.
But home. Which is a good place to be.
Mindy, sorting out the towering pile of email
First, Mark and I spent a long weekend down on the Outer Banks (barrier islands in North Carolina.) We ate way too much beach food (ah... chocolate and peppermint and cinnamon salt water taffy...) and visited the Wright Brothers Memorial (amazing to think how rapidly air travel advanced!) and drove to the Cape Hatteras light house (or "light station" as they called it in all official publications) and walked on the beach and read and slept and generally hung out without Blackberry reception. (My favorite restaurant: The diner-y dive where we ate breakfast two mornings, called "Bob's Eat and Get the Hell Out." (They were actually much more hospitable than that!))
Then, I was back in town for a few days of work craziness.
Then, Mark and I headed up to New York. Our accountant is in Manhattan, and we needed to get the dreaded taxes done. (Suffice to say, they weren't as dread as feared - we missed a higher tax bracket by $700, meaning that we actually get a small refund rather than owe thousands that I was afraid we'd owe.) Before that business meeting, we saw the new Aaron Sorkin play, THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION (about David Sarnoff, Philo Farnsworth, the invention of television, and man's inhumanity to man - great language, some very interesting staging, not perfect, but well worth the price of attending.) We also went to the BODIES exhibit down at South Street Seaport - a collection of real human bodies, dissected and preserved, to illustrate various body systems, diseases, etc (eerie, gory, fascinating, surreal, and the root of a couple of new stories...) Then, we crossed the Brooklyn Bridge - a stunning excursion, with the cables changing the view around us with every step (after we finally *got* to the pedestrian walkway, which took some meandering across roads where peds were never meant to X.) We ate some great meals, enjoyed the Club Level at the Westin (where I'd received a discount room due to the huge amount of work travel I've been doing - further discounted when the hotel couldn't check us in until 3.5 hours after check-in, due to other travellers stays being prolonged unexpectedly), and generally remembered why NYC is a great place to visit (but still wouldn't want to live there!)
Then, I met with my agent to discuss my Super Secret Project. I've got a few more details to pull together, and then we'll be submitting. It's hard to type with fingers crossed!
Then, I worked in our NY office for a couple of days, including attending a high-end seminar on law library management.
And now, I'm home. Home, with cats glued to my lap. Home, with tons of writing projects piled up. Home with tons of to-be-reads piled up.
But home. Which is a good place to be.
Mindy, sorting out the towering pile of email