About food, and books, and more food

[annathepiper]

So, well, aside from the whole agent turning my novel down thing, the tail end of this week has really been quite good. Quite a bit of this has involved adventures in lunch. ^_^

Wednesday spazzkat and I went to lunch at Todai in Westlake to celebrate his one-year mark at the Times. Mine is coming up real soon now. It's a comforting feeling to be hitting a year mark on a job and not having to worry about having to look for another position in the immediate future. Here's hoping we'll still have this same job this time next year.

Thursday I met up with casirafics to fork over the ticket I'd bought her for the July 29th GBS show, and that was highly enjoyable. We had tasty World Wrapps food and there was much fangirling over Doctor Who, and then a visit to the Dilettante cafe for hot chocolate and truffles. I didn't expect to get the latter--my compatriot in Tennant-ogling wanted the cocoa, I was going in to accompany her--but one look at the truffle counter was enough to make me heave a resigned sigh and make my peace with the fact that I wasn't getting out of there without truffles. Because, I mean, c'mon people, truffles. Those of you who are local and/or who have had Dilettante truffles will know exactly what I'm talking about here. Two words: Dark Ephemere. Mmmm.

Friday, back to spazzkat as we finally tracked down Blue Moon Burgers, this place near the Times at which I've so far managed to miss at least two team lunches and we wanted to see if it was tasty, darn it. Verdict: not bad, though Kidd Valley really has 'em beat on the garlic fries and on the milkshakes. We spotted a couple other places that might be worth checking out as well on the days when we need a break from Whole Foods.

The tail end of this week has also involved adventures in books. I wound up picking up four from Third Place on Thursday: two Eighth Doctor novels, the latest Victoria Thompson mystery, and Witch Fire by Anya Bast, since I'd seen seimaisin squeeing about that coming out over on her journal. And just because I could, I went to the Baen Free Library and yoinked down several ebooks to read on my frob. I'm starting to really dig this whole ebook idea--very nice way to get around the whole shelf space problem, and it saves paper too. (Though I can see one reason to have a physical book--book signings. Hee. I can't exactly see coming up to an author at a signing and going, "Hi! I have a copy of your ebook that I bought off of ebooks.com, will you sign my computer?")

Tonight we're all going over to a housewarming at sksouth's new house, and there should be barbecued things, and they will likely be tasty. And there will be cool people and chatting and generally hanging out. Yay!

Meanwhile I sent out another e-query on Lament, just to keep another one out there until I get a printed partial together for it to fire off to Tor. And it's worth noting that I'm finally closing in on the nine-month mark with Faerie Blood in the e-queue at Baen; hopefully sometime soon I'll hear back on that one way or another.

Miles since the 3rd: 23.9
Miles out of Hobbiton: 2067.2
Miles out of Isengard: 274.2
Miles to Minas Tirith: 511.8

Comments

[peregrine-ek.livejournal.com]

I am really sorry that your novel was rejected, but the agent did leave you some really good feedback, and as a writer, I would certainly take away encouragement from that.

[annathepiper]

Thanks! It does help me to remember that, indeed. As rejections go, I think that was the best possible rejection I could have gotten. :)