Welcome to day 1,688 of Notes from Coode Street. I started this blog back in May of 2002. I was living in a different house, hadn’t edited an anthology since 1998, was still reviewing for Locus, had only just become reviews editor there, Sophie was only seven months old and Jess was not quite two. God life was different then. I weighed like twenty kilos less than I do today, read many more novels and much less short fiction and was, frankly, probably much happier. I think the happier thing has more to do with the 20 kilos than anything else, still it’s a sobering though in and of itself.
The reason I know it’s day 1,688, by the way, is I started to look back at old blog posts to refresh my memory about some things. Apart from noticing that I used to blog a lot more (that 20 kilos again, I think) than I do now, I also notice that every December I say how tired I am and how tough the year was. I’m now wondering if this is more a function of the time of year, than the year I just experienced.
Just so I don’t forget, a big Happy Birthday to my friend and editor Sharyn for Friday the 15th! Here’s hoping the rain recedes, the health improves, and the presents are terrific.
No idea what’s up, but it looks like some of my email isn’t getting out, and some of *your* email isn’t getting in. I’m looking into it, but in the meantime can you please send any email to my main address and copy it to my back up at strahan(dot)jonathan(at)gmail(dot)com. Sorry for the inconvenience.
If you’re going to dress in pink as a fairy, you have to COMMIT. Sophie had a fancy dress party to go to not so long ago, and dressed herself as a pink fairy. She’s five. Time does fly.
Ok. People actually asked for whining and stuff. I don’t get it. Still. Last week was an insanely busy time at Casa del Madness. Jessica and Sophie were both involved in a particularly full-on dance recital, which ran for two nights with an enormous audience. Sophie had one performance, dressed as a little clown girl, and Jessica had two, one as a bear and the other as a rain girl. It was incredibly cute. This is one of the rare photos their terrible parents. We have video, but you *don’t* want to be downloading that
