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After a lovely couple of hours with Jacob Weisman of Tachyon Press and running errands, I watched movies tonight. First up was Oldboy but the DVD wouldn't load--not wouldn't play--would not load. I was worried that it was my DVD player but nope, Atonement went in fine, so I watched that. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Depressing as all get out, my expected that. James MacAvoy seems to be getting younger in each movie I see him in. It's weird. I liked the acting. Then I watched the three episodes of Dr Who on the disc with "Blink", which is what I really wanted to see. Thought it would give me some context as I've only watched Dr. Who many many many years ago when it was really primitive and had no production values whatsoever. I was impressed. I could see getting hooked on it--but I won't ;-) However, "Blink" really is excellent and reminds me of the excellent Buffy episode "Hush." Both are horror and both are weird. Loved them both. Bravo!

I've been pulling together the Nebula Award Showcase anthology and it's coming along nicely. I've chosen most of the stories I'm going to use, although there may be one or two more, am awaiting one appreciation and two nonfiction pieces and praying that HarperCollins doesn't give me a hard time with the Michael Chabon excerpt permission. They accept nothing but snail mail so that's what I sent. How will I know the permissions department even receives it? I have no idea.

I still have to write a brief introduction to the volume and need a few more bios and I'm thinking of something a little different if I can pull it off but we'll see. The mss is due into the publisher at the end of June.