The local news covered City Winery, where Rob works, the other day. If you look quickly, you can spot him several times throughout the footage. He’s the one on the left in this shot. Just in case you didn’t know what Rob looks like.
Hey, my lovely NYC readers. Is anyone interested in working at the winery with Rob tomorrow from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00p.m.? It’s $10 per hour, which is isn’t much, but it’s a fascinating look at wine-making. They’re getting in a shipment of grapes tomorrow and need a couple of people to help sorting fruit. I’ll
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Last night I went to bed about twenty minutes after Rob. Normally, he would still be awake, but last night I could tell by the sound of his breathing that he was deeply asleep. The winery tires him out during harvest because it’s all hard physical labor and extremely long hours. He was sprawled across
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Rob works with spaceships. At night, the Martians open this cockpit and ooze out. They are slimy and smell like fermenting grapes. Three of their landing craft arrived at the same time. Rob is making sure that the landing gear is stable. When the landing gear isn’t stable, the spaceships fall over. That makes the
We’ve definitely started into Harvest season. It’s funny, the last harvest Rob worked was 2005 but the rhythm of the winery was so much a part of our lives up until that point that it feels completely natural for him to come home smelling of grapes. He only worked a partial day today, but I
And lo! I have returned to NYC and yet I have not slain any of the tourists who insist on stopping at the top of the stairs. The cats are very needy because Rob has been working long hours at the winery. He got home around 8:30 tonight and smelled like grape juice. The grapes
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I haven’t made a lot of noise about this but one of the things that’s been hard for us over the past year has been the bizarrely difficult time Rob has had finding a job. Some of this is circumstantial; we arrived right before the writers’ strike started and Rob works in film and television.
Here’s a bit of wine-maker jargon for you. Our friend Wayne is in town for a couple of days. He and Rob have been talking wine and wine making like they’ve both been starving. I’ve been listening and mostly staying out of their way. But this, this I had to share. We were at dinner
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I fell asleep before the plane even left the ground and slept most of the way home. I woke up about half an hour before we landed and amused myself by reading Zoe’s Tale. Yes, I know that makes some of you jealous and it should, because it’s a darn good book. Since my flight
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I spent the train trip alternating between writing a new short story and reading Ekaterina Sedia’s Alchemy of Stone. I say “alternated” by which I mean that I took a break from writing the story, read half of Alchemy and then we were in NYC. The apartment is empty without Rob, again, but he left
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@twitter help # On the train and will try to sleep. Supposed to get into the Boston station around eightish. # Next time, I’ll plunk down the extra $30 to go to business class so I don’t have to hear cranky baby. # Also, why is the train so freaking cold? # Just went to
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Watching Act II of Dr. Horrible! # Act II of Dr. Horrible is as good as I’d hoped. # My husband is home. Giddiness ensues. #
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We spent the last two hours or so catching up and hearing the stories of the film shoot. He’s taking a nap now and I’m going to finish the last of my packing. Heading up bright and early to Readercon tomorrow to be there for my kaffeeklatsch at noon.
I’m still up and, thinking about how often and easily I stay up this late, I’ve decided to take the 3:15 a.m. train to Readercon on Friday. I miss Rob (just in case you couldn’t tell from the schmaltzy posts this week) and would rather be tired during the con than miss seeing him by
Had octopus at dinner that looked like Cthulu. Elder god is tasty when flame-broiled. #
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