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lauraanne_gilman ([personal profile] lauraanne_gilman) wrote2009-01-24 07:33 am

Saturday's like Tuesday. Except you're running errands while I work.

Yesterday I had discussions with my agent, my editor, and my contractor. All satisfactory. Nice way to end the business-week. Also, I think I answered all pending e-mails?

Today I am entering Stage 7 of the Vineart 1 revisions. Send diet coke, popcorn, and a bottle of rum antacid.



Food news:

-the short ribs braised in red wine and tomato turned out good-but-not-fabulous. Recipe tinkering will continue. The garlic bits, however, were eaten like (alcoholic) candy. Nom nom nom.



Political/anthropological thought:

Looking at photos of the First Family together, I am struck -- when was the last time we had a non-dysfunctional* family in the White House? (ETA: I say this because the Obamas look like every textbook description of 'functional" I've ever seen. And I say that coming from a high-functioning family myself)






*The Bushes were poster children for Not Healthy, ditto the Reagans. The Clintons had obvious issues. The Carters... I remember Amy being a normal awkward teenaged hellion, but Jimmy and Rosalyn came across as repressing things...

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