I had a good Tuesday, too, although I missed Venus. I got to eat lunch with Jessica, and Neil Gaiman and Molly Ringwald were at the Harper party after BEA.

I've been reading my agent's twitter feed while she's at BEA and it sounds like fun. I hope she's running into lots of people who are interested in a middle-grade steampunk novel :)

R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles

What?! Oh no. Dammit, he was supposed to live forever.

Dammit, he was supposed to live forever.

I know, right?

It's fair to reject job applicants out of hand because their resumes are ugly as shit, right? Like, if everything is centered and it's a Word doc with visible gridlines turned on, I can assume that they're lying about having good attention to detail?

Yes.

Lehman declares victory; result would shift Senate power to Dems

Far as I know, the Senate is out of session until late fall.

Dammit, he was supposed to live forever.

Seriously.

Raises toast to The lovely Mr. Bradbury.

Ray Bradbury gave a commencement address at my college while I was there - not my graduating class, but I went to the ceremony. It was a lovely, tear-inducing speech and nice to remember today.

Sad about Bradbury.

mac took money out of purse, lied about it, and then refused to go to the outpatient place because he did not like the consequences here and he didn't them there. fuck all. I am working from home (thank dog I never turned in my loaner laptop) and have cancelled what was to be day 2 with the new sitter. This may well be the end of the new sitter, I do not think she likes the idea of this type of thing popping up unexpected and/or what it would mean if it happened with her.

One stupid decision on his part - all these cascading consequences. Will he ever get it.