Sorry to disagree, but this actually IS part of their agenda. If I wasn't so lazy I'd rustle up a cite or two, but it has been stated by state-level Republican politicians that women shouldn't be burdened by the right to determine their own reproductive destiny, that men are better qualified to make those decisions for them.
Maybe so, scary to think people actually think that. Well, there are people who think almost anything, but I mean people with actual power. Perhaps, I'm trying too hard to be moderate.
Because it isn't a clone of anything already published and at least moderately successful. Publishers are scaredy cats.
They really are, in so many ways. Allyson, I'm sorry Sam didn't sell for you with any of the publishers, but as Hec said, those are some top notch rejections in a sucktastic market. It shows that the editors in question read the MS rather than just say, "Oh lordy, more talking animals, PASS."
There are so many things that I wish I could say right now, to try to make you feel better, but I'm afraid they would come across as patronizing and piss you off when that's the last thing I want to do. So I'ma just shut up and hand over the chocolate.
My violist neighbor is practicing with her windows open. Lovely to sit and listen.
"Tiguan" sounds a lot like "tickworm" when you aren't quite paying attention to the ad.
Jilli, want to do a Masters?
YES. That would be a lot of fun. I wish I could go to that conference.
So cute, kids of Amy and Gud!
Crap, crap, crap. A crown fell out while I was eating dinner. Don't wanna find a dentist tomorrow. Just the idea has me feeling like crap. I am way too dentist-phobic.
Suzi, you know to go buy some denture glue, right? Besides it feeling icky, you don't want stuff shifting. And may you find a dentist you like the way I like mine. They've basically gotten me over my dentist appt aversion. OK, that might be the frequency of appts the past 3 years, but... it worked? And had me at 3-4 cleanings a year, which might go back down since the last couple she's made noises about it seems like I'm getting less buildup in the past year. (Probably helps I now have 4 crowns...)
I felt all CSI today. My officemate, the one from California, was complaining that there's no good Mexican food out here. He says that you know you're not going to get good Mexican food if they serve white rice and black beans. I said that there are some good Mexican restaurants, but a lot more not so good ones. Then I remembered that a friend of mine who graduated a few years ago was from Mexico, and she once took us to a Mexican restaurant in Virginia for her birthday, and she said that it was the most authentic Mexican food around. So he asked me what it was called, and I couldn't remember. I said I'd email my friend, but this was at least four years ago, and she hasn't lived in DC for three years, so I doubted that she'd still remember.
So, then I had an idea. We were there for a birthday party. People take pictures at parties. So I checked the flickr accounts of the people that I could remember being there and found a few pictures. One of them had the front window in the background, and when I zoomed in, I could see most of the website address, backwards. It was just missing a few letters, which were easy enough to figure out, so I went to that website, and on the front page was a picture of a plate of food with yellow rice and pinto beans.
