Meme: Post the first line of your first journal entry of each month for 2007 (snerched from davidlevine)



January
Last night I bought a half-pint of Jim Beam to put in my eggnog, and I am just infatuated with the little flask-sized bottle.

February
Joining works by a good many people whom I know and respect, my story "Far As You Can Go" (from my chapbook Show and Tell and Other Stories) made the 2006 Locus Recommended Reading List.

March
To all the people calling me on my cell phone, once again, I am not the HR department at Wendy's corporate headquarters.

April
Picnic on the beach, drive down the coast (through some of the most beautiful scenery I've ever seen, which I didn't even bother trying to photograph, because it's too beautiful for me to capture with a mechanical device), and even some writing done at a pretty roadside stop.

May


June
Looks like Year's Best Fantasy 7 is out, wherein my story "The Osteomancer's Son" is reprinted.

July
In San Diego to apartment hunt, probably not for the only time this month, but you gotta start somewhere.

August
Good news for everyone: I got a decent night's sleep and feel less like whining about moving!

September
Well, many if not most people reading this already know that the Hugo Awards (that's a big-time science fiction award, like the Oscars, for anybody out there who doesn't follow this sort of thing) were announced last night in Yokohama, Japan, and while I wish one or two categories had gone another way (because I had friends with awesome stories in those categories, but I know with certainty their times will come) I am so immensely pleased that talented artist and Good Guy Frank Wu won for Best Fan Artist, that my Viable Paradise teacher (and the guy to whom I made my first professional sale) Patrick Nielsen Hayden won for Best Editor (Long Form), and that my dear good friend and buddy and dude with whom I have drunk much beer tim_pratt (Tim Pratt) won for Best Short Story.

October
Working on the Weird Beach YA, I thought it might be a good idea to back up a bit.

November
The bagel is mine.

December
Funnies, robots, the poignancy of childhood.