In Which the Author Waits

[rolanni]

What does the author wait for, you ask?

Well, happily, she no longer waits for the power to come back on.  Central Maine Power was on the case almost immediately, and we were back on the grid in less than two hours.  Since the coffee auto-brew cycle had finished *this much* ahead of the black-out, I believe we can chalk the whole experience up to: More Fortunate Than Not.

But I am waiting for Other Things, among them:

*An answer from someone who sent me her email address, but apparently never checks her email

*A contract with signing check

*Galley proofs

*Authors' copies -- I called this one yesterday when the UPS truck pulled up in front of the house (as in, I said, "Now, what. . .?  Oh!  BOOKS!").  It turned out to be the monthly order of cat litter, and after we took it on, Steve said, "What books are we expecting?"  and I said, "Mass market Trade Secrets."  and he said, "Already?"

*Books -- this being a modest order of used books for moi

*The backbrain to get on the case and fork over with the short story I need to write

*A buyer, krugerrands twinkling on his fingertips, for this house

*The perfect in-town house for us to move into to manifest, but not before the guy above puts the krugerrands into our hands

*A movie deal for Agent of Change (or The Tomorrow Log, or Carousel Tides, or Barnburner; I'm not particularly picky on this point)

. . .I think that's it.

So!  It's a good thing I have some peppers and onions to chop up for the freezer, and some vacuuming to do, while I wait.

What're you waiting for?

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Waiting for Godot.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Dress warm.

Waiting

[bookmobiler.livejournal.com]

The next Lee and Miller story. You really had to ask?

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

For my morning sickness to stop! I don't mind being pregnant, but the constant nausea plus constant hunger gets old.

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

My bleeping roofer to give me a date, hopefully this week and before any more rain ...

Bookshelves

[aska-kettlingur.livejournal.com]

After waiting for a wall of bookshelves to be delivered, and waiting for the assembly team to assemble them, and then waiting for them to come back to secure them to the wall, I am now waiting to discover where that last missing box of books has gone. It contains half of my Lee and Miller books, of course. Luckily, I have most of them on Nook as well, but I want to be able to look at that nice shelf of 'real' books as well.

It never occurred to me that having five cats, each of them at least twice the size of my petite kitty, would require litter to be delivered by the truckload. When do you have time to write?

[caoilfhionn.livejournal.com]

Two pounds of Corriedale blend wool roving, to be used in teaching drop spinning. Also, checks. There's always waiting for checks.

[elbales]

A movie deal! Nifty! I would love to see Barnburner made into a film. The Liaden books would also be wonderful, but I fear that Hollywood would make decisions that would pain me because they do that with science fiction.

I am waiting for this headache to pass. RSN, plz.

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

This years plague of spiders ( of various species) to *go away*. Ditto the pollen -every time we have a windy day the pollen from the beginning of the summer gets stirred up out the undergrowth and added to the fall stuff.
Yes Barnburner for a film.

Waiting for the same thing re House

[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

A buyer. Then a suitable place to move to. Ranch houses had their day between about 1955 to 1970 or thereabouts, and there are few areas we WANT to live in that have them.

Sigh.

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

HURRAY for your power being back so quickly!

Me, I'm waiting for this dratted cough to stop long enough for my ribs to stop aching. And for Friday, it being, happily, payday. And for Saturday, which happens to be my birthday

Like Lawrence Ferlinghetti...

[david tate (from livejournal.com)]

I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic western frontier
and I am waiting
for the American Eagle
to really spread its wings
and straighten up and fly right
and I am waiting
for the Age of Anxiety
to drop dead
and I am waiting
for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe
for anarchy
and I am waiting
for the final withering away
of all governments
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the Second Coming
and I am waiting
for a religious revival
to sweep thru the state of Arizona
and I am waiting
for the Grapes of Wrath to be stored
and I am waiting
for them to prove
that God is really American
and I am waiting
to see God on television
piped onto church altars
if only they can find
the right channel
to tune in on
and I am waiting
for the Last Supper to be served again
with a strange new appetizer
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for my number to be called
and I am waiting
for the Salvation Army to take over
and I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth
without taxes
and I am waiting
for forests and animals
to reclaim the earth as theirs
and I am waiting
for a way to be devised
to destroy all nationalisms
without killing anybody
and I am waiting
for linnets and planets to fall like rain
and I am waiting for lovers and weepers
to lie down together again
in a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the Great Divide to be crossed
and I am anxiously waiting
for the secret of eternal life to be discovered
by an obscure general practitioner
and I am waiting
for the storms of life
to be over
and I am waiting
to set sail for happiness
and I am waiting
for a reconstructed Mayflower
to reach America
with its picture story and tv rights
sold in advance to the natives
and I am waiting
for the lost music to sound again
in the Lost Continent
in a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the day
that maketh all things clear
and I am awaiting retribution
for what America did
to Tom Sawyer
and I am waiting
for Alice in Wonderland
to retransmit to me
her total dream of innocence
and I am waiting
for Childe Roland to come
to the final darkest tower
and I am waiting
for Aphrodite
to grow live arms
at a final disarmament conference
in a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting
to get some intimations
of immortality
by recollecting my early childhood
and I am waiting
for the green mornings to come again
youth’s dumb green fields come back again
and I am waiting
for some strains of unpremeditated art
to shake my typewriter
and I am waiting to write
the great indelible poem
and I am waiting
for the last long careless rapture
and I am perpetually waiting
for the fleeing lovers on the Grecian Urn
to catch each other up at last
and embrace
and I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder

Re: Like Lawrence Ferlinghetti...

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Thank you.