I got back from Chicago last night, glad to be home as always. I spent a few hours at the PITTCON exhibit before taking the convention shuttle back to the hotel, checking out, walking to the red line, transferring to the blue line and getting to O’Hare for only $2.00. I think every city should have a train that goes straight to the airport.
One of the advantages to taking the train is that I didn’t have to deal with the crazy taxi drivers in the city. I think they drive with one hand on the steering wheel and one hand on the horn. I haven’t hear so much honking since the last time a flock of geese flew over the house.
I have until Thursday morning to turn in my edits on the 130-page manuscript I’ve been working on this year. I did a lot of work on-screen in Chicago and printed the pages out when I got home last night, then went at it with a red pen, a process I hope to finish tomorrow morning. Then it’s going to be a full tilt effort to get a short story finished in time to get it to the MWA by their deadline for the upcoming anthology. It’s going to be a very close call.
Summer Glau was a welcome addition to The Big Bang Theory last night. I’ve never seen the Sarah Connors Chronicles, but I liked her on Firefly and on The Unit. Two and a Half Men was pretty hilarious this week, too. That show gets more chuckles out of me than any other. I was a little disappointed by which team got sent packing on The Amazing Race this week. They lost out through no fault of their own, unlike everyone team so far, all eliminated because they did something wrong. In this case it was a U-Turn that did them in, otherwise they would have been strong contenders. I don’t blame the other team for eliminating them, though. It was a good strategy.
I finished When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson yesterday. I love the way she always manages to bring disparate threads together in fresh and innovative ways, and how her books have vicious crimes in them but are more interested in the people involved in these incidents (before and after) than the crimes themselves. She has fierce insight into her characters. Brilliant. Review to come, but not until after I get these edits finished.
