Wednesday,
January 29, 2003
There's a good side, and a bad side
Today's
bad side was mainly taken up with some sort of tummy bug that flushed out my
GI tract cleaner than Ex-Lax -- I still don't know if it's an actual bug or
some reaction to what I ate yesterday. In any case, I spent the morning at home
trying to make sure everything was, um, stable enough for the commute, and went
home early when I realized I was making a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes
on a project and didn't care because I felt so lousy.
I really, really, really hate this kind of bug, you know? I can take the flu, colds, whatever, but please don't mess with my stomach. Arrgh.
So I spent the afternoon dozing fitfully and shivering while the cats either snoozed on me or wrestled at the foot of the bed. Finally got up for a long, hot shower in time for Lyndon to come home, whereupon he returned to the store for more Sprite and some chocolate. Did you know that chocolate is one of the few foods someone with a stomach bug can tolerate? No lie.
So here I sit, feeling like five flavors of crap. But there is a good side to today -- was an email I got from someone who wanted to know if I was the same Melanie Miller who was posting chapters of a novel called DEUS EX way back in 1991-92. This is why I keep my maiden name in my full name -- you never know who's going to remember you from alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo. So that was a nice piece of egoboo to enter my disease-riddled world.
By the way, the
novel is still available
on the web, if anyone's interested and wants to see what I was writing 11 years
ago. I shelved it when I got fired, had to move in with my dad and spiraled
into 9 months of shell shock from the previous three years (long, unpleasant
story). The really frustrating thing is that I had a major NY editor who was
interested in it. Let this be a lesson to all you newbie writers out there --
finish the goddamn novel before submitting it.