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ellen_datlow ([personal profile] ellen_datlow) wrote2008-08-15 11:19 am

A weekend in the country

I'm visiting my friend John upstate and our friend Donni will be joining us from a different direction. We're specifically getting together for the Saugerties open artist studio weekend.
It might rain a LOT but hey, it's the country and it's beautiful there.

The 3 1/2 bus ride to Margaretville (so John doesn't have to pick me up in Kingston) will be spent reading the rest of my magazines: months of The New Yorker and weeks of Pulbishers Weekly, and New York. I'm also bringing printouts of an online magazine and the novel Sharp Teeth--we'll see how far I get with everything.

I doubt I'll be online much except to check email (I'm not taking the laptop).
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safe travels

[personal profile] themadblonde 2008-08-15 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Hope it's a successful opening & a most enjoyable weekend!

Re: safe travels

[identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
thanks--it should be fun.

[identity profile] krisname.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I loved Sharp Teeth. While I read it I started thinking in that staccato, free verse style of his.

[identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh oh, I hope I don't start doing that Kris! ;-)

[identity profile] raebryant.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
You are one brave woman. I have to say that I'm not keen on bus-ing anytime soon.

[identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh you mean the accidents? Well, knock on wood, I've never had a problem and it's usually the small off name buslines that do...I'll be on trailways.

[identity profile] raebryant.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I was referring to the Greyhound Slayer, but you aren't riding a Greyhound, so no worries. Sorry, shouldn't be putting that stuff in your head right before a trip. Really sorry. If you weren't already made of steel, I'd have waited until after you'd made your trip, but something tells me you don't scare easily.

[identity profile] charlesatan.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Have a safe trip! Enjoy!