As predicted my internet connection is far too fragile to do an entire thirty day meme. So, out the door it goes!
The weather here in Arizona is mostly to blame, though it's nothing compared to the blizzards that have been happening else where, it's been thirty degrees DURING THE DAY for a week! It's just started to level back into the sixties and seventies! That's far to cold for us desert dwellers to function. I live in a town full of fountains (seriously we're famous for the largest man made fountain in the world) and half of them were frozen solid. So I've been holding up in my apartment with my Nook, Lazarus(yes he has a name!), and only venturing out for work and grocery needs.
In the long cold internetless hours I've read a few new authors and began mapping out a plot for a story in my head that I don't absolutely hate from the get go. That hasn't happened in two years! We'll see where it goes as I've hardly begun and already hit road blocks, but I'm determined to get this one out of me. It's screaming at me when I read and whispering to me at work, I've had to start shutting my phone in a drawer at work because I keep pulling it out and using the memo pad to write chapters and dialogue and other things so often that the big boss is catching me and I'm ignoring customers, which is a no-no. Cross your fingers for me.
Richard Dawkins is going to be at a lecture at ASU this weekend on What is Life and I am going. There will be other great minds there as well but, unfortunately, I have really only read the works of Dawkins. This will be a wonderful opportunity to hear and learn about other scientists and give me more reading material. Which I love. Also, RICHARD DAWKINS OHMYGOD!!!!!!! I read his book The God Delusion in High school and picked up The Greatest Show on Earth, Evidence for Evolution, last month. I have a whole list of his other works I still need to read and have watched lectures and read papers of his online. I'm so excited.
