A Stupid Factoid

It's now day 85 of 2009, and in looking at my Mail program, I notice that there are 455 messages (either sent to me or messages that I have sent out) for faculty and students at NKU. That's roughly 5.4 messages each and every day, seven days a week. And that total doesn't include the messages that I received and deleted since they didn't require action and didn't seem to need to saved for future reference...

(Brought to you because so far this morning I've had to send out seven e-mails responding to students and it's not yet 11:00 AM...)

Since all the cool kids are doing it...

... and I'm such a sucker for peer pressure, I've opened a Twitter account. You can follow me at sleighwriter if you're so inclined. Or if you're really, really bored. (ETA: try going to http://twitter.com/sleighwriter if a search doesn't show sleighwriter, as a couple people have indicated. I'm there, honest. I already have a few people following me...)

There's been a large "Twitter, yes or no" discussion on one of the writers' groups to which I belong, and the majority seem to feel that twittering has worked for them, so I'm dipping my toes in the water-- and we'll see whether I like or hate it.

Hmm... Anyone interested in what I had for dinner? :-)

Huh -- A MAGIC OF TWIIGHT wins another round!

A MAGIC OF TWILIGHT managed to hold off the strong competition of Michael Swanwick's THE DRAGONS OF BABEL, and is in its fourth round of the Bookspotcentral March Madness tournament, this time facing THE ENGINE'S CHILD by Holly Phillips, which shredded Gene Wolfe's AN EVIL GUEST last round. (Oh, the thought of being up against Gene, whose work I admire greatly...)

If you're so inclined, you can check out the contest here. TWILIGHT has an early lead, but the voting's open until 8:00 PM on 3/30...

Kinda cool, since I didn't know TWILIGHT was even in this thing until the third round... :-)