A mostly wasted day

I got up very late because I stupidly stayed up till almost three am last night picking cat fur out of my keyboard (hey, it's kind of satisfying once you get into it)...finally dragged myself over the USPO to mail xmas gifts that were piling up and was stuck on line for 1 1/2 hours--no exaggeration. There was only one person working most of the verrryy long line. The only other open window had one guy mailing/doing something for the whole 1 1/2 hours I was waiting. One person was out sick. The poor clerk hadn't even had time to get lunch. She was very gracious, and everyone online was pretty good, except for a couple of loud curses when people came in through the gates of hell to see what awaited them. By the time I was done, I was so fed up and it was so cold outside that I went across the street to the English store in the Chelsea Flower market, bought some xmas gifts, and went straight home. Never went to the bank (I had zero cash and charged everything) and didn't make it to my PO Box across town. It can all wait till tomorrow.

Finishing up going over the galleys of The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy which are due tomorrow. It's going to be a very weird book, so that cover that I posted last month actually does seem appropriate, after all.

I happily discovered that the contributor copies of Black Thorn, White Rose were sent out ten days ago and are in the hands of most of the authors, even if I haven't yet received mine. The copies of Inferno that were given away last week to the first five readers who promised to blog the book have been mailed out. Hey, if you don't have time enough to read the book over the Xmas vacation, don't sweat it! But when BETTER to read it :-).