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April 27, 2006

Reports of my Death

Not dead, but not all that great, either, it must be said. I've been muddling along since you last heard from me, coughing a lot, feeling wheezy and generally "blurrgh", and intermittently quite depressed depending on how I feel about the whole writing caper at any given moment. Right now I feel fairly okay about it, so that's one thing less to worry about.

(Actually, what's been really weird about this flu: during the first 10 days or so of it, I had NO HEADACHES. Since then I've had only one serious headache and it lasted only one day. I've never heard of 'flu-sensitive tension headaches, that clear off once you come down with a cold and start to come back once the infection has run its miserable course, but who knows? Though I do know if I was a patient on HOUSE, I'd have been diagnosed and treated for five different horrible illnesses I didn't actually have, succumbed to either respiratory failure or terrible convulsive seizures, nearly died from all kinds of other related problems, including the meds given me for all the things I didn't actually have, only to be saved (maybe) in the final act with a correct diagnosis. It's a great show, but I'd so hate to be one of those patients.)

I've started re-reading the UMBRA manuscript. So far, at about chapter 4, while it has required surgery and graftings of fresh material here and there, it's holding up well. Surprisingly well, in fact. I suspect later chapters will require more extensive work, but for now I'm feeling okay about the whole thing--which doesn't sound like much, but is a huge improvement on how I was feeling about it not that long ago.

Some news, of a vague and wispy sort, came up today in a note from Publisher Brian, who tells me that "things" regarding "Project Mimosa" continue to bubble along nicely. As always I have very few details to share. All I can say at the moment is that there appears still to be considerable interest from the other party's end, and there will apparently be a series of meetings for Brian, Michelle and me to go to once we hit LA in August. Crikey! I will know more about all this in a month or so, I think. Whether I can report any of it, of course, is another matter. This makes it very frustrating, but might well be worth it in the end. At the very least, even if Project Mimosa falls completely flat, it will make for a fun story. It's not every day something like this happens to a doofus like me.

Last: it was my 43rd birthday just recently. I am increasingly feeble and pathetic. To comfort me in my dotage, Michelle arranged for our broadband speed to be doubled (without it costing anything extra--w00t!), and provided me with numerous other fabulous treats, including a set of Season Two DVDs of INSPECTOR REX, and a copy of bizarre-but-fabulous PS2 game, WE LOVE KATAMARI, which I'm really enjoying, and looking forward to rolling ever bigger things into ever huger balls of stuff. There's something bizarrely satisfied about rolling up birds, dogs, cats and even small children, which continue to wave and squawk as you continue rolling other things up. Or maybe that's just the 'flu talking.

Posted by adrian at April 27, 2006 07:47 PM

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