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I'm back!

By laelaps on August 10, 2008.

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The oversized "night light" across the river from where I was staying.


I just made it back from NYC and I had a great time. It was wonderful meeting so many new people and catching up with writers I hadn't seen since the January conference, and my only regret is that I had to miss a few of last night's festivities due to a minor medical mishap. (Don't worry, everything's fine.) Nevermind that every time I turned on the news it seemed that the world was going to hell in a handbasket between John Edwards' affair, the death of Bernie Mac, the murder in China, and the war between Russia and Georgia...

Now it's back to the daily grind. It was nice to get away for a weekend but it's time to get back to doing what I do best. I've got plenty of writing projects and just about three weeks to get everything done, and I definitely want to make the most of the time I have left before classes start up again.

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