All posts tagged excitement

An announcement. A BIG announcement.

[Dramatic pause.] I have a literary agent. She is the marvelous Kate Schafer Testerman of kt literary. She loves my book. Giggle. I am still not quite sure this is real. The blogosphere would have me believe this is possible, that querying agents with a polished, revised manuscript will get you partial and full requests, which [...]

The week of crazy is about to start.

The boy tells me (on a daily basis) that I exaggerate too often. It’s true that I have a propensity for hyperbole. I freely admit it. But when I say this upcoming week promises to be crazy, I mean it. (All right, I am probably exaggerating. It will likely be busy but exciting, too, which [...]

Good news!

It’s another Friday, except instead of still being somewhere in February (where I am somehow mentally still finding myself? Why?), it’s mid-April. A lot of exciting things have happened. Most recently, the excitement has surrounded the closing for the new apartment (a week hence, ha!) and the move-in date (the following Monday). I’m trying to [...]

Wow. My thesis is 76 pages.

Luckily that’s double-spaced. But really — wow! I’m shocked (pleasantly so) that I’ve managed to get 76 pages. Peggy said to me this morning, “You should trim some from the ‘dragons’ section,” and I thought, “Trim? Wha? Why?” Well. Heh. I haven’t even written a good chunk of the other theoretical part of the thesis [...]

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