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[sovay]

My first-ever collaborations with other poets have recently been accepted for publication. (Since I have no idea what I'm doing in collaboration, this rather amazes me. I'm chalking it up to the talents of the other person involved.) Several months ago, Mike Allen invited me to write a rengay with him; the resultant tangle of strings, constellations, and faces, "Aranea," has been accepted by Not One of Us. John Benson, meanwhile, is entirely to blame for (a) "The Waters Where Once We Lay" (b) the fact that it just sold to Jabberwocky; it's full of kelp and loss, and does not conform to any known meter. So this is all good.

In other news, my life is rather in the gutter. At least I have new music.

[edited 2005-05-24 21:50]

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Comments

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

*sends poncho, useful when lying around in gutters*

Am being a couch jockey today, thanks to handy new (old?) diagnosis. You might just get fic out of it.

Dude, have YOU been tested for Gaucher?

[sovay]

No . . . So far as I know, my spleen still functions. It's mostly just everything else that wants to skip out for the Bahamas and leave me to deal. What is Gaucher, precisely?

(Mmm, fic.)

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Gaucher = Ashkenazi genetic disorder leading to immunosuppression, lack of appetite, fatigue, bone pain, lots of bleah. It's what's wrong with all the best selkies.

[sovay]

Yergh. And I thought my immune system was a deadbeat.

*hugs*

What can be done about this, if anything?

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

It's not that serious, as these things go. Pain management, mostly!

Well, and a freaky, expensive, placental-cell based enzyme replacement infusion therapy, which we're not trying.

I keep having to buy magazines cos you keep being in them.

[sovay]

I'm a selkie's best opiate.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Are you back in MA for the summer, or hanging around New Haven? If the latter, I'll be working at the Slifka Center starting Thursday- want to meet up after I get out of work sometime?

[sovay]

If all goes well, I will be away from tomorrow through Monday or Tuesday, then I'm back here and reading for my exams. I'd love to meet up and hang out. Can I get back to you once I've survived my weekend?

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. GOod luck!

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Yay acceptances. Bleah suckiness. Is there anything I can send you? Music? Television? Essays on the Enlightenment?

*love*

[sovay]

I already followed one pointer of yours to the Dresden Dolls' cover of "Hallelujah," which was truly, deeply awesome, so I'd feel bad asking for further music suggestions. But I have no shame and this day really does suck, so: anything else you recommend?

[sovay]

*thanks*

[gwynnega]

Sorry about the life-in-the-gutter syndrome. But hooray for acceptances and music!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

When life hands you gutters, snipe.

Nine

[sovay]

I've been hunting, but I can't find one.

[greyselke.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear your day sucked! *smacks day soundly about the head*

Unfortunately I don't have a free copy that I can point you to, but if you ever have a chance to see a film of the "The Descent of Inanna" done at the 1998 Burning Man festival I would recommend seeing it as quite a . . . um . . . unique experience. Between that and having just read "Snow Crash" last night, I feel like I am on a twisted Sumerian mythology binge.

In other news, had you heard about this (http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/mirrormask/)?
A new movie by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, and the Jim Henson Company