Stuff

I was written into an Anne McCaffrey book. I was reading along, all unsuspecting, and ran across a casual note that E. Million from Alaska had given birth to a little girl. It was fiction, but I still do an understandable jaw drop, show it to Jake and then flip to the inscription in the front of the book. There I am: a grateful thank you to Ellen Million for her hospitality when Anne was visiting Alaska, in with a list of other credits and thank-yous.

Wait a second, I think. When did Anne McCaffrey visit me?

Then I woke up. Oh, right… a dream. Of course. Puzzled me more than a moment, because I almost always know that I'm dreaming when I am.

Fell back asleep and had weird, crazy dreams about her visit to a cabin we haven't built yet, and she looked about half a century younger than I picture her in my head, and I think it was Jane Yolen who was traveling with her. At some point we were taking a sauna together, and there was a fuzzy bit with a bench on a hill.

Odd.

I have new art in snowunicorn. Well, it's updated art, anyway.

ARTISTS!!! I have new guidelines up, and I will begin sifting through new work at the beginning of the new year. Do let me know if you have any opinions on the electronic submissions method. I'm not entirely pleased with it, and welcome better ideas.

Projects

Things I have already committed to:

+RWH Tarot Cards. MUST get these finished. I've been sitting on these waaaay too long. And I think they'll be fun, once I get more than two hours in a row to sit down and DO them.
+Wendy's logos. *smacks head* These need finished. Egads... these need finished.
+EMG. What, you think that's not an on-going commitment? I have artists to pay, it's nearly yearsend! I have a dozen orders to send out! I got some webpages updated this week, which is an amazing feat, so that's a plus.
+House. Hel-lo. We finished insulation, but still have to vapor barrier (this weekend!) before we can move in. We still have the plumbing to do, and insulating the rims, and setting up a temporary kitchen and bathroom, and a complete vacuum for insulation fibers.

Projects I want to do:

+The Project with Jennie. Very much. Terribly excited. I loved the siteplan you sent, Jennie!
+The Project with Lisa. Much possibility here. It's been on the backburner for sometime, but I haven't really lost sight of it, just trying to work it into the existing components.
+Torn World. I'd really like to make it a fun, publishable, shared-world playground. I have a dozen stories to write and/or finish. I have daydreams of seeing the books, with all the pretty illustrations and stories.
+The Studio. I want to build a studio. It has to be big, because I want many printers and scanners and light-tables and cutters and laminaters and other whirring toys, eventually. It has to be efficient and beautiful and functional and friendly.
+The idea being bandied about elfwood regarding trading cards. (Though to be honest, this one scares me, and I'm not going to pursue it any further than I have. They know where I am.)
+The card game (tentatively titled Fate) that I've been working out in my head for a few years now, but have no art or writing for.

Questions these lists leave me with:

+Where's the love and romance? I have a wonderful, handsome, funny man at my side who deserves some attention once in a while. (He gets a raw deal in my lj... he really does, the poor guy.) I don't spend enough time cultivating what really does equate to the best thing in my life.
+Couldn't all of these projects really be called EMG? It's the business that ate Ellen.
+What's up with people that claim 'there's nothing to do?' No energy to do things, no time, sure. But 'there's nothing to do?!'
+Am I nuts?