RTBTCKI ( The Subject Material Edition)
Posted By Kathleen David on February 28, 2007
This is one of those mornings where my mind is a blank at best. I look at the computer and try to find something that moves me to write in my blog. An issue that I have a stake in or something in the news that just starts my brain moving in a direction where I can figure out what today’s entry is going to focus on.
So are there any topics you would like to see me ramble about that I have not touched on?
I shipped off the doll that I am doing a round robin with off to the next participant. I want to make sure it gets there before I send the next one to her. I have a doll in the planning stages for an exhibit at a doll show. I know what and how and I just need to go and finish it. Then there is a puppet I need to get done for LunaCon (two weeks away) along with some new stuff for the art show. I have this kookie idea I want to see if I can execute at a reasonable price. That and I have to make a few more Phluzzies since the number of Phluzzies I have to put into art shows is really low due to sales (which is a good thing).
I have some research to do for my Dr. Who short story for the anthology and I have before that another fantasy piece I need to finish and submit. I think it may be too grounded in reality for the anthology but I know it is a good story idea since I have had authors ask if I have written it or can they use the idea. I tell them this one is mine and Peter’s. So that is on the table.
Peter is writing his next Trek novel so we won’t be seeing him for the next couple of days except for food, the gym, and bowling. He does sleep contrary to popular belief. He and Caroline were so cute this morning playing with her Lincoln Logs and building various buildings before he went back to writing.
I have some wacky ideas for dolls and puppets that I really ought to write down or sketch out somewhere. I keep losing and finding the ideas again and again. My brain goes into overdrive at times which is a good thing to be so creative. I remember a time where I didn’t think I was an artist but more of a mechanic with fabric and foam (does that make any sense?) now I do think of myself as an artist among other things.
I am grateful that my brain does have this creative bend.
Hello Kath,
I wish that I had a literary bent. Oh well, at least I know the right end of a pair of fabric shears, and I’ve been known to wield a mean sewing machine and a mean pair of knitting needles.
We had a bit of excitement at my daughter’s school yesterday at home time. If you can access the Sydney Morning Herald (www.smh.com.au) and look at the story about flash flooding in Sydney’s South West, you’ll see why. The school is in a semi-rural setting. A freak superstorm cell(driving rain, hail, lightning like I’ve never seen) moved through between 2:45pm & 3:15pm. The front oval/Primary school overflow car park flooded to around 2metres (6feet) deep. 3 cars were washed over the 2 metre high front fence of the school. At least 12 were underwater to the top of their windshields. Cars and busses on the main internal school road (above the lip of the oval) were up to their axles in water as well.
Scariest thing I saw was 2 medium sized 4 wheel drives (I think one was a Honda CRV) and a large family sedan picked up by the swirling water and washed at least 10 metres from their original spots (nor the cars that were lifted over the fence). Bravest thing some of the men present tethering themselves with ropes and carrying pool noodles, to trees around the edges of the car park and swimming to each vehicle to makes sure no one was trapped.
There was other damage as well to classrooms etc so obviously, no school today. I’m waiting for a call-back as I’ve volunteered to help with the cleanup.
Megan
Dear Mrs. David,
Is that anthology one of the Short Trips collections? I was just over at Outpost Gallifrey and noticed that Series 3 will include a two-parter “Only Human” scripted by Paul Cornell and based on his own novel from the old Virgin Publishing line. Here’s the best part: On the BBC’s DW web-site there’s a free e-book version of the novel and somewhere among the author’s notes Mr. Cornell writes that he took some inspiration from Mr. David’s “Imzadi.” If you knew all this already I apologize for the space I’m taking up. I just thought this was all really cool.