Where the word things are

Flights home today. I know I'll remember all the things I love about my job and my apartment and routine when I get back but for now I'm only recalling the stressful and frustrating and lonely and crazy-brained and unhappy parts. Ho-hum. My first world problems, look how significant and tragic and terrible they are, woe is me.

I have written much less of New Novel than I'd hoped/planned to on this trip, but on the upside I think I may have a vague idea what Next Novel is about.

Bethy is awake and I have asked her and she says I can just live here forever and never leave so I think I'mma go to that.

This batch of photos from the last couple of days is less varied than the last lot, as I didn't think that interludes on an interstate bus or at a Milwaukee IHOP would be of all that much interest. So it's just some silly band I saw again or whatever. I kind of love them a lot and forever.

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I have managed to lose my Australian phone, because I am the most stupid, STUPID PERSON ALIVE. And because I am in, you know, Colorado, I can't remedy my incredible and massive stupid right away. I don't want to lose my number I have had it six years :(. STUPID MARY.

American chaps, lasses, and folk, I have a new US number and it is (872) 333 5823. Use it for telling me what a complete fucking idiot I am! Woo!

The really irritating part of all this is that there are so many beautiful, profound, funny, stupid, amazing things I want to write about today and my trip so far. And instead I get to whine about my own self-made problems of dumbness. Woo!

Back. Sad & glad.

Today we went on a Hollywood tour, on which I got to eat a Sprinkles cupcake om nom. Then we went to Madame Tussuads which was ridiculous and hilarious.

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Tomorrow we fly on to Chicago, and since I'm out of camera battery I prolly won't be posting very much from there. But I'll see you when I get back! Until then, here's a picture I took of Charlie and Lindsey on the weekend that I really love, because the pair of them make such a matched set.

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Today we hung out at the hotel pool, went to the Hard Rock Cafe, and went to Griffith Park Observatory. Also the 'We Miss You Kylie!' picture from yesterday got retweeted by Lindsey and so has been seen 1,900 times so far. I am so glad that this journal is off the general fannish radar, ahahaha.

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Today we went to the magic kingdom and it was magical!

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HEY INTERNET, GUESS WHERE I WENT TODAY. Also we saw a chain-smoking Cheerio and got to walk through the set of Community and all kinds of other awesome shit.

Um, hi journal-type environment! It's been a week since I updated! Largely this is because I have been writing Wolf House at any moment I wasn't studying, working, or sleeping -- and I skipped a bunch of the sleeping, too, which was an adventure I will not soon repeat by choice.

But after a week of telling twitter that writing is hard, writing is hard, why did I ever decide to do this, oh god life is pain... I have finished book 5. I don't know how long the final count is, but when I last checked it was twice as long as any of the other books. Which means it didn't actually make my workload any easier by paring the series back from an intended six to five, ha. But I'm glad I finished it with this one, with these point-of-view characters. I feel like I got where I was trying to go, and even if it's not perfect, it's a damn sight better than I expected it to be.

Except that, shit, now that I'm mostly done with the writing, I no longer have an excuse for not doing PR work about 'em. Urrgh. That'll be, um. Fun.

This whole thing started sitting with Audrey in the middle of the night in April of 2007. The adventure's not finished yet, of course, but I feel like it was apt that I wrote the last words of the main guts of it sitting with Audrey in the middle of the night, here in August 2010. Some things change, some don't.

Um, other news... I have a million billion trillion assignments to do! What a buzzkill, man. But when you've just written five novels it's hard to get too stressed out about eight thousand words of essays due. Bring 'em on, baby, I can do that with my eyes shut.

Plans for the LA trip are coming together, wheee! Lindsey is so awesome that her awesomes have awesomes attached. And SUNNY WEATHER AAAAH. WARMTH. I REMEMBER THAT. I CANNOT WAIT.