Saturday morning. Do not want.

[seanan_mcguire]

Step one: Wake up. This is the least pleasing step. I was having a very pleasant dream about attending a convention in England with my agent and most of my crew of rotating musicians. Vixy and I got to raid a Tesco's. It was nice. Waking up was so not on the agenda.

Step two: Lilly realizes that I have woken up. On weekends, I tend to stay in bed long enough for Lilly to come over and spend some time on my chest, getting heavy-duty affection directed her way. This is because I foolishly believe that if I adore her enough before I start trying to do things, she might leave me alone to do them.

Step three: Check email. Hello, email. Yes, there certainly is a lot of you, and no, none of you really appears to matter. That's always a pleasant discovery on a Saturday morning, as the last thing I want is an emergency or for an unexpected deadline to pop up and wave to me.

Step four: Stare blankly at The Brightest Fell for about three minutes. After that, decide that I am not yet in the necessary head-space to struggle with navigating those particular waters, and close the file again. (Toby Daye, book five. Because finishing four of them in a year just wasn't enough.)

Step five: Copy-edit two chapters of the manuscript I'm currently copy-editing for a friend of mine. It's on today's to-do, even: 'edit chapters 10 and 11.' I am, at this point, sufficiently engrossed by the story that I wouldn't be surprised if that turned into 'and 12 and 13 and just keep going already,' but since I also have to finish the next Velveteen vs. today, it won't go on forever.

...and now, pants, and the ceremonial Saturday morning stroll to the 7-11, hence to obtain a soda whose volume is slightly more than the volume of my skull. Because that will make me feel better.

How's your Saturday?

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I am in my nightgown, I have consumed a pleasing breakfast of potstickers and chocolate and water, I feel happily productive because I am working on Things that are Not Mine, and then soon I will braid my hair, take a shower, find clothing, and attempt to sell myself (rather, my time and energy) to a high bidder in the greater San Francisco area, in between sorting stuff to shove into boxes to facilitate going to the greater San Francisco area so I can sell myself.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Rock and roll, and good luck with the sale!

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.

[kyrielle]

So far, so good. I got to play World of Warcraft for a while (then Scott's work pulled him away so we logged out), there are cute lolcats up, and our cat Ray has only attacked my skirt twice.... Sigh. ;)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I'll see you skirt attacks and raise you pinning me to the chair for an hour and a half because Mommies Shouldn't Move.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

akawil is home. This makes Saturday better for me.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

[mpoetess.livejournal.com]

I have fled the house and returned, I filled my gas tank for 20 bucks, I have 2 weeks worth of House to watch, and I am currently nursing a venti skinny vanilla latte. My Saturday is \o/

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Your Saturday = made of win. So mote it be.

[ladyamber.livejournal.com]

I got to sleep in until 10:30, showered, and got dressed for my shift at 2 this afternoon. Now I get to make food for my husband, consume it voraciously, and go make little podlings smile big for their pictures.

I look forward to an actual day off? :D

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I hope you get one reasonably soon!

[catnip13.livejournal.com]

D forgot his cell phone and we're out of cat food.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Whoops.

[tollermom]

The dogs let me sleep late (almost noon, after having worked second shift last night to cover for a vacationing manager), and I woke up pinned to the bed by all five cats, sleeping and purring. I was warm, and immobilized, and it took another half-hour to extricate myself from the purring sleepy things.

Then I made waffles, and shared them with my niece, and now I'm playing with the dogs and catching up on email and LJ. Life is good. :-)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Life is definitely good. You win.

[mariadkins.livejournal.com]

I woke up at 9:30 with a snuggling snoozing cat beside me. That was terrific. Then it was breakfast and laundry. Now I just "am".

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Existence is an important part of the day, so win.

[mariadkins.livejournal.com]

Very awesome win!

[djonn]

At OryCon, checking in from the Internet terminals in Hospitality.

Premiered "The Ellipse" (originally posted in comments over on cadhla to good response at open filking last night. Hope to see whether one of the other new songs breaks vixy (not permanently, of course) at open filking tonight; also finished yet one further new lyric at around two AM last night (partially set to Vixy's "Emerald Green", but in no wise a parody). Stars Fall Home is at the Friends of Filk table in the dealers' room, and has been duly pimped.

The Vixy & Tony concert begins in about 45 minutes, and I want to catch most of that (will likely have to duck out of the end because I have a 3pm small-group session.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're having a fabulous time!

[aiglet.livejournal.com]

Whence, my dear, not hence. ;)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Wench.

[incandescens]

If you do attend a convention in England, I hope you let us know: I'm English and would like to attend. :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

My last UK convention was in 2007, so I'm definitely ready for another one! I make sure to announce everywhere I'm going to be, 'cause it'd suck if I showed up and nobody was there to hang out with.

[incandescens]

Excellent. (makes note) I am a recent convert to your work, but a very enthusiastic one!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Enthusiasm = awesome. Now we just need to get a UK publisher for Toby, so you don't have to pay import fees. ;)

[incandescens]

Definitely! And get you on UK iTunes, while we're at it!

(I physically can't access US iTunes. Or any iTunes store other than the UK one. It's very irritating.)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Wow, really? That's fascinating.

I'm not currently actually available on US iTunes either, if that helps at all? If you're looking for my stuff, you can buy Stars Fall Home at CDBaby (http://cdbaby.com/cd/seananmcguire), and Pretty Little Dead Girl is available through my website.

[incandescens]

Thank you very much!

(I believe iTunes does it so as to squeeze the maximum cash out of its users -- life could be awkward for them if people started comparing the "standard price for single track" on the UK iTunes (79 pence) with whatever it is elsewhere, then did their buying at the cheapest location.)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. There's a reason I once went to the UK with an extra suitcase, and came home with a suitcase full of children's books. (This was before they started fees for bags.)

[incandescens]

When I visit America, I usually come back with my bags stuffed with books and yarn . . .

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

The new baggage surcharges make me sad, because wow do they complicate the little 'self-import' business so many of us were involved in.

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, my waking-up featured Me-That-May-Or-May-Not-Have-Been-Still-Dreaming making a list of all the people I had to tell that "Stars Fall Home" is the most awesome CD ever and you need to get it too," and somehow you were on the list of people to tell; it did not occur to me until much later that as the person who made it, you already knew about it.

And, yeah, I've been meaning to mention that I bought it the week before last and it is awesomeness to the Xth power, where X is not quite identified but definitely in the double digits. It might be that your songs are the Avogadro's number of awesomeness.

That all said, my Saturday has been rather too cold and too lacking in other people's fanfiction, my computer is still not playing nice with the latest Firefox update, I'm far behind on writing deadlines and now have art deadlines thrown into the mix, and I forgot to rescue any of my Chinese takeout from my dad before he took it to work with him. On the upside, I have warm fuzzy socks and my month-long attempt to be actually prolific at writing has at least met with partial success.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! I'm so glad you got it, and so glad you enjoy it! I adore that CD, I'm still really proud of it, and it makes me incredibly happy when people enjoy it. (Remember, it makes an awesome Christmas gift, and that gets it out my back room, which makes Lilly stop shoving it on top of my head while I'm trying to watch television. She managed to overturn an entire box the other day. I was proud. Also concussed.)

Some of the same songs are on Pretty Little Dead Girl. Most people actually like the live version of 'Pretty Little Dead Girl' better (it has a lot of urgency, and the original third Rosette), but I passionately adore the studio version of 'This Is My Town.'

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

I'm going to show the CD to my 'sister' when she pries herself away from the sewing machine, and if she likes it (I imagine she will; she falls head over heels for sad songs like "River Lies") I will probably get her a copy for Christmas; I'll have to see about Pretty Little Dead Girl, because I'm broke . . .

I have this thing about live music . . . if I'm used to the song being a certain way, every single little deviation from the recording I'm used to hearing is astonishingly jarring; I hear live music that I'm not used to hearing live and I can easily spend the whole time nitpicking that the tempo's a little off or the words or the cadence of the words are changed, and it takes me a little while to get used to the new version.

I bought it mostly because I was utterly in love with "Follow Me Down," and wanted to hear the full song and not just keep playing the two teasers and trying to reconstruct the tune of the rest of the song on my own. I could sing what I thought it was but that was no substitute :) I did get that afore-mentioned jarring thing going on 'cause I'd anticipated that you'd go down and then up on the seven "Follow Me"s, and you went up and then down and that threw me for a few days, but I like it now.

Very, completely, utterly awesome CD, anyway. I could not have ever expected to like "Pretty Little Dead Girl" as much as I do, given the music style and the subject matter. (Both are OK, but I never expected something of either to make it into my alltime favorites OK, American Pie did exactly that like this did. (OTOH, if I die young I wanna be a ghost with a car too.)

I can't remember if I've said this before: I cannot possibly say enough good things about your rhyming talents and the imagery you create. "If you wanna be specific it was Paleolithic" is the most awesome thing I've heard in recent memory.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way with live vs. studio songs -- everything I recorded in the studio I did because I thought we could do something different enough that it would be worth it. (Well, except for 'Maybe It's Crazy,' which is on the live album, but not on the first studio album, 'cause I was already thinking in terms of the mad science album.)

I'm really super-glad you like the album. And my love for Rose Marshall is practically a song cycle at this point, it's spiffy. (The other songs include 'Counting Crows,' 'Hanging Tree,' and 'Graveyard Rose' -- none recorded yet, all on my website.)

Rhyming is fun. We should do it more. The song I'm working on now includes a bit where I manage to rhyme 'committed' with 'you did it' in a way that makes absolute linear sense.

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

Rhyming is awesome. I do not do it often enough, even/especially when writing poetry.

The song I'm working on now includes a bit where I manage to rhyme 'committed' with 'you did it' in a way that makes absolute linear sense.

*impressed Kyra is impressed*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I am writing you this letter from the psychiatric ward
Of the hospital where you had me committed,
And there's bars on every window and a guard at every door.
I asked you not to do this, and you did it.

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

*nods* is good.

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

which makes Lilly stop shoving it on top of my head while I'm trying to watch television. She managed to overturn an entire box the other day. I was proud. Also concussed.)

Cats. :) My newest boy has stopped attacking my hair while I'm sleeping, and has stopped reacting to my hiding my hair under the blankets by pawing at my face with claws out; however he will not be dissuaded from jumping onto the TV, and one of these days I'm sure the extra weight will crush the VCR.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

All cats are total freaks. This is proven and axiomatic.

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

True.

[supersniffles.livejournal.com]

Getting better. I drove firestrike home last night and then neither of us slept well. He got up at 7am to help the parentals move house and I had to be at work at 330pm.
However there was KFC and The Blind Swordsman-Zatoichi (on DVD) so the day is improving.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Rock and roll!