Tonight we went out to dinner with one of Rob´s cousin´s friends, Dr. Jonsson. It turns out he´s an opera buff and into wine so he and Rob had loads to talk about. As we sat at the restaurant, it began to snow. It´s really lovely. Rob and I walked home in it. In downtown […]
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Rob has just been hired as the Script Coordinator. Which means that he’ll be making sure that everyone has the latest draft and doing lots of color-coordinated photo-copying. It also means that we get to eat lunch together every day.
I nearly forgot to tell you that the house moved! Thank heavens. My parents must be so relieved.
Today I had a shot with just me in it. Well, really, just my hands as Trixie, but still it was fun to be solo for a bit. Trixie was falling, and so they needed a shot of her losing her grip on the tower. That meant me, in gloves, with the tower. We shot
Check out the full review at SFRevu Here’s a quick excerpt: This is the second issue of Shimmer that I’ve read and the high quality of the stories continues. An insert tells us, “Each issue presents unusual stories told with conventional storytelling techniques.” That’s a good description. All but two stories got a Very Good
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So I was sitting on the studio floor today, waiting for a shot and it moved. My first thought was that someone was trundling something heavy past me, then I remembered that I was sitting on a concrete slab. Next I noticed the lights jiggling. I wondered if it might be an earthquake, but by
Now, this might seem trivial to some folks but I spent today writing and hanging out at home. Home being our apartment in Iceland. Rob was much more industrious than I, to the naked eye; he washed the windows and scrubbed down the bathroom. I did some laundry and made soup for dinner, but otherwise
I got the galley proof for Bound Man, the story I sold to All-Star Stories Presents: Twenty Epics. Poor David Moles had to send me a pdf because, well, I’m in Iceland. It looks really good; the hard copy galley is on its way here, through the magic of mail forwarding, but it will take
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We were curious about the temperature of the hot water in our apartment. See, in ReykjavÃÂk, the water comes out of the ground hot. So, after receiving numerous warnings from our landlords about scalding hot water, we stuck a meat thermometer under the water coming out of the tap. The water is at least 170
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We’ve finished the first week of shooting and we’re a little behind. This is to be expected during the first week, although not desirable. As the week went on, I think we got faster. I’m tired, that’s for certain.
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Today I was mostly moving carts around. A little bit of seconding with rods, but nothing terribly exciting. After work, most of us went to the pool and soaked in hot pots or swam. When we drove up to it, great billowing clouds of steam rolled out of the swimming area. The walk from the
Last night I finally slept through the night without having to get up and cough. And this morning I didn’t have a coughing fit. I think I might actually be done with this thing.
Today I had the simple task of flipping a sheet over Bessie’s head. Ahahaha. Right. The illusion we were going for was that she was hanging laundry and that a sheet fell back over her, momentarily making her look like a ghost. The trouble, as always, is that I had to do this over my
The newest issue of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has an audio bonus of one of Mr. Card’s stories, read by me. It was just reviewed at SFFAudio An excerpt: Quite short, only 9 minutes, this is ably read by Mary Robinette Kowal who manipulates her voice in all the right ways to lend
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I was on set all day today being the live hands for one of the characters. It was wonderful and exhausting. Being back at work feels great, but it means lots of poses that would make a yoga master wince. Fortunately I only seem to be facing standard fatigue and show no signs of trouble