Odds and ends

[alwaysamy]

We have a winner of the signed book contest -- Alyssa H. of Utah. Yay! Thanks for entering, everyone. Will post more contests in the months to come...

I just had to give my driver's license to purchase PediaCare decongestant for Sara, buy it at the pharmacy counter, and sign for it. Those meth-makers are really making it inconvenient for the rest of us, let me tell you.
(Although, how much crystal meth can you really make with a 15 ml bottle of cherry-flavored infant drops? Shouldn't they be monitoring bulk purchases? Should they be monitoring purchases at all? I once made a very effective bong out of an apple, but no one's at the grocery store asking what you intend to do with the fruit.)

Starting to push into the deadline for the next Brava book. Had a mini-panic last night, just before Grey's Anatomy, in which I decided I didn't remember how to write books, I had no plot, and I had no idea who my characters were. That was fun. I think I'm past it today, although I've done more note-taking and brain-jiggling than actual writing.

Grey's Anatomy...well, I won't spoil those of you who haven't seen it, but it's a good thing I like so many of the characters. Because the realism quotient on this show is pretty frigging low. Why do I always assume that a "medical" show (air quotes intended) is going to be more realistic, more "true" than something like Desperate Housewives? It's a puzzle.

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[serenada.livejournal.com]

Don't think of it as a medical show. It's a show in a hospital. I wondered why they used the credits sequence that they do, and that's when it snapped together for me--they'd never been calling it a medical show. It was just my reflex to assume.

[amy37.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, nice icon.

Yeah. "A show in a hospital." I'll have to remember that. Even House is getting to me on that front. With him, I guess it's "modern-day Sherlock Holmes in a hospital." He's even got the drugg addiction!

[serenada.livejournal.com]

I felt really dumb when I realised that House (and Wilson) were Holmes (and Watson). Mostly because I'd been feeling really clever, but that was the same week they revealed House lived at 221B. But it made things fall into less annoying places all the same.

Dr. Burke is a goddamned superhero. I don't care if he's impossible.

He's hot.

[amy37.livejournal.com]

Believe me, I felt dumb, too. As soon as it was pointed out, it seemed so obvious.

Dr. Burke is beyond hot. I think he was one of the saving graces of that awful movie, Ghost Ship, too, although I could be mistaken.

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

Had a mini-panic last night, just before Grey's Anatomy, in which I decided I didn't remember how to write books,

Get out of my brain. That's been MY panic all weekend. I've started two different things and tinkered with two other existing things and have decided that all things Suck. Like. A. Thing. That. Sucks. I can't remember how to write. At all.

Bah.

[amy37.livejournal.com]

Oh, babe. Is that why you've been MIA?

We should totally have a weekend to recharge and dish and laugh and drink and shop. Together!

Take a breath, if you can. Is anything due right now? If not, walk away for a day or two instead of forcing it.

Plus, you *do* know how to write. And very well, I might add.

*smooch*

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, love-- I totally shouldn't have bogarted your cranky post. Should've done my own cranky post. :-)

Nothing's due right now, but I'm trying to put together the proposal for the next YA, completed manuscript which is due May 1, which right now seems really far away, but I know really isn't. However, I did force myself to walk away from everything and just watch skaters and snowboarders and guys in tight unitards that expose what religion they are.

And a weekend together to recharge and dish and laugh and drink and shop sounds LOVELY. I'm already looking at my schedule and trying to figure out when the next NY pilgrimage is. Probably early fall at this point. We shall plot and plan and connive. *smooch*

And thank you! *smoochies again*

[amy37.livejournal.com]

Bogart all you want! I don't mind.

Conniving will be fun, oh yes indeed.

[dachelle.livejournal.com]

O.K., I must ask. I got a book I'd ordered from Amazon today - Bill Graham's U2: The Early Days. On the cover, it says the editor was Amy Garvey. Is that you? I just had to ask!

[amy37.livejournal.com]

What?! Nope, not me. I did a Grateful Dead trivia book once, but nothing about U2. How weird!

[dachelle.livejournal.com]

That is weird. I wasn't sure exactly when you worked as an editor or where, but I thought it was in New York, and the book was printed by a Dell imprint in 1990, so I thought it could possibly be. You should look up this doppelganger Amy Garvey!

[amy37.livejournal.com]

I know! I worked at Kensington, and that wasn't until 1992 or so, and back then I was only a lowly freelance reader. Totally weird.

[dachelle.livejournal.com]

Very weird. I feel the need to Google and see who this woman is, and what she's doing now. Are we sure you're really Amy Garvey? Did you kill this woman and take over her life? *g*

[amy37.livejournal.com]

What's really strange is that if you Google my name, you get dozens of hits for Amy Jacques Garvey, Marcus Garvey's wife. I had no idea there was another one, too!