{"id":1869,"date":"2010-04-09T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2010-04-09T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T07:00:19","slug":"quick-post-from-provo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/quick-post-from-provo\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick post from Provo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is going to be quick, because it&#8217;s late at night and I want to get some sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I made it to Provo.\u00a0 I&#8217;m currently staying with an old roommate, sleeping on his couch.\u00a0 To do: find a job and a place to live.\u00a0 Fortunately, I&#8217;ve just about got the second one secured.<\/p>\n<p>I talked with the editors at <a href=\"http:\/\/leadingedgemagazine.com\"><em>Leading Edge<\/em><\/a> today, and they told me they&#8217;ve been having problems with the buy function on their website.\u00a0 If you tried to buy a copy of issue 58 (the one with my story) before this month, they probably lost your address.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t worry, they voided the purchase, but if you want a copy you&#8217;ll have to go through the process again.\u00a0 Sorry for the hassle.<\/p>\n<p>Wrote the last academic paper of my undergraduate college career today.\u00a0 <strong>The last freaking paper.<\/strong> Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>I dropped in to English 318 tonight, and a couple of Sanderson fans got engaged in front of the whole class.\u00a0 It was pretty cool, not the least because they were cosplaying at the same time.\u00a0 Good luck, Mi&#8217;chelle!\u00a0 May you and your future husband have a wonderful life together!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for all the feedback on the new title.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m going to stick with it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s weird to call the book by a different name after working on it for so long under the other title, but I think <em>Mercenary Savior<\/em> works much better.<\/p>\n<p>Looked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westercon63.org\/\">Westercon <\/a>today and found out it&#8217;s only $60.\u00a0 Thinking seriously about going.\u00a0 Should I?\u00a0 Is anyone else planning on going?<\/p>\n<p>To do tomorrow: get cap and gown, complete and file taxes, sign a spring\/summer contract, meet up with old supervisors\/professors in pursuit of a job, go to a bonfire and have a good time.<\/p>\n<p>My mom always got depressed with to do lists; she always felt daunted when she saw all the tasks she needed to accomplish.\u00a0 To counteract this, she made a &#8220;tasks accomplished&#8221; list at the end of the day to make her feel better.\u00a0 So, on that note:<\/p>\n<p>Accomplished: finished all Washington Seminar coursework, attended English 318 and obtained leads for Mormon Artist article, attended <em>Leading Edge<\/em> and caught up with the slushies, got a date for next Friday (totally unrelated), submitted <em>Genesis Earth<\/em> to an agent, wrote +2.2k in <em>Mercenary Savior.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not bad.\u00a0 Now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I&#8217;m going to crash for the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is going to be quick, because it&#8217;s late at night and I want to get some sleep. I made it to Provo.\u00a0 I&#8217;m currently staying with an old roommate, sleeping on his couch.\u00a0 To do: find a job and a place to live.\u00a0 Fortunately, I&#8217;ve just about got the second one secured. 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