Yes, it's the second. And yes, it does look funny. If you want to do a nice compromise, you can leave off the quotations and capitalise the P.
Greetings from an internet cafe in NYC.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
deborah grabien - Apr 09, 2005 3:39:21 pm PDT #1125 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
SailAweigh - Apr 09, 2005 3:45:52 pm PDT #1126 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Hey, Deb! Enjoying yourself?
deborah grabien - Apr 09, 2005 4:03:08 pm PDT #1127 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Oh, mercy. Yes, I am. Yesterday was World Horror and the Persephone panel; it was also an amazing piece of luck, in that I wanted to drop off the chocolate espresso bean cookies I had brought to give David Evangelista at the salon so that I wouldn't have to carry them, and David walked in, and he had Erica (the executive producer of the CBS Early Show) with him, so we had a nice squeeing reunion. And I took the opportunity while her eyes were going wide as she munched a cookie to warn her that I had something to pitch to her, a project, and she said cool! Do you have my email, or do you need it?
And I did pitch it to the talent (that would be David - and the SF makeover is part of his professional highlight reel), and David says the Early Show does book launches all the time, and they should do mine, and I should tell Erica, and where did I want to do it?
So I am totally chuffed. Also gawjuss, with hair and stuff all done for free.
Plus? Dinner tonight with good buddy and DMLA stablemate Laura Anne Gilman, and we may both have stories in the 44 Clowns anthology.
Amy - Apr 09, 2005 4:11:40 pm PDT #1128 of 10001
Because books.
Way to start off your trip, Deb! Sniffle. God, I miss New York.
SailAweigh - Apr 09, 2005 4:13:37 pm PDT #1129 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Whooey, Deb! Hobnobbing it! Sounds like a very satisfactory trip.
deborah grabien - Apr 09, 2005 4:14:34 pm PDT #1130 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
God, I miss New York.
Heh. I totally don't; this is the second trip in a row that I've actually found thoroughly enjoyable, and I wouldn't and couldn't live here again for anything you could offer me. I snarled at a guy on the train today, and I had something unpleasantly resembling a panic attack on Canal Street, when I got stuck in a human traffic jam.
But I'm enjoying the visit hugely.
erikaj - Apr 09, 2005 4:17:36 pm PDT #1131 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
I really have to go, one day. EVERY "What City are You?" says it's me. I always think it will be somewhere in CA...I guess I have a little 'tude, after all.
Connie Neil - Apr 10, 2005 3:25:56 pm PDT #1132 of 10001
brillig
Oddly enough, I like human traffic jams--not active mindless mobs, but crowded streets. They make me feel nicely anonymous and weirdly powerful. As if I could do anything and there are too many potential suspects for anyone to pin it on me.
deborah grabien - Apr 10, 2005 5:24:37 pm PDT #1133 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I melt down. I had forgotten just how often I get bumped into, brushed against by, and accidentally footstepped on, and by just how many people I've never seen before and have no desire to see again, when I hit Manhattan. I like it not (the bump-brush-stepping part; Manhattan itself is fine).
Tomorrow is my meeting with my editor. Today was Kristin, and later Kristin and my daughter at a family style Italian restaurant called Carmine's.
Liese S. - Apr 10, 2005 7:05:41 pm PDT #1134 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I can't stand human traffic jams. Thus, desert. I keep thinking about the 'Qatsi movies and feel compelled to do something unexpected and unpredictable, like suddenly lurch sideways, or do a 360 or something. Then at that point, the human traffic jams don't like me.
Edited to add what I meant to say, which is, I'm glad you're having a good trip, deb.