to UCSC next week - but first, the seals!

[ellenkushner]

Heavens, what a week! Best friend from summer camp long ago in for the weekend along with signing & socializing at NY Comic Con, then lunch with desayunoencama on Monday, dinner with blackholly on Tuesday, last night a reading with real actors in our livingroom, of the first draft of a friend's play based on a 19c ladies' manual of manners (all interspersed with frequent bouts of Being Helpful about my brother's upcoming wedding in Norfolk, VA). . . and tomorrow, we're off to Santa Cruz, where we're reading at UCSC next week (and speaking to Karen Joy Fowler's creative writing class). Before that, however, we're running off for a romantic weekend in Big Sur. It will be cold, and rainy, and I Do Not Care. There will be surf and fog and redwoods and maybe some seals - and definitely a hot tub and massage or two. I will speak to no one except Delia (who will probably not speak to me, as now that she's done settling Interfictions2, she has to catch up on all her World Fantasy Jury reading).

Back to civilization on Weds. Feb. 18th for a reading at UCSC, 5:00 p.m., that is open to the public - maybe we'll see some of you there.

And may I just say that A Little Night Music is the most perfect musical ever written?

Look, ma'am, an invitation!
Here, ma'am, delivered by hand!
And ma'am, I noticed the station-
ery's engraved and very grand . . . !

Comments

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Have fun in Santa Cruz. Alas I'll miss the reading, as I'll be up in San Francisco for a Sofia Gubaidulina premiere ...

[castellucci.livejournal.com]

Santa Cruz is too far, but are you LA bound at all?

Say hi to Karen for me.

love to you and Delia!

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

If you're going to the Post Ranch Inn, I heartily endorse your choice. And if not, I endorse it anyway, because how far wrong can you go in Big Sur?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

"A weekend with that woman ... It's insulting!"
"It's engraved..."

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Ah, glorious Santa Cruz. I've many fond memories of my freshman year there. Have a wonderful time!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Wow. Now, that's a good reason.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no - just running in, collapsing, reading, heading out. LA next time? MIss you!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Was hoping you'd say that!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I've never been, but hear it's great.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess we'll see . . . They told us to call first to see if the road is washed out!

Nothing so splendid as Post Ranch - just a cabin - but should we try to have dinner there?

[nanne.livejournal.com]

That's the best song from the musical! Though I don't think it's the most perfect. The 3/4 tempo gets on my nerves a bit after a while... or maybe that's because I have the London recording ;-)

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Oh, you were at Comic Con too? Cool! I had a lot of fun there. (Sorry, have been poking around here a bit since discovering your journal. :) Looks like you have a ton of fun things going on now.

There will be surf and fog and redwoods and maybe some seals

I am VERY jealous. :) Sounds fantastic.

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

As I recall, the food is excellent, and the restaurant is perched over the ocean, so I say go for it. I never actually had dinner in the restaurant, though -- I ate in my cottage, which also had a good view. (They bring you a picnic basket and make up your fire before they go. Sigh.)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Sigh, indeed!

[(Anonymous)]

Always wanted to hear Dolly Parton or Emmy Lou Harris sing "Everyday a Little Death" from that show.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

omg, I'd pay money to hear that!! (Which "Anonymous" are you, btw?)

[(Anonymous)]

Anonymous is me, David Torbett from Marietta, OH. Happy Mardis Gras and looking forward to Purim. DT