Vagabonding!
It's officially begun now. But first! Check out the incredibly lovely poster that The Great and Amazing Troy Palmer did up for my reading in Vancouver! I'll be sharing the stage with four other amazing writers: Jay Hosking, Andrea Hoff, Taylor Basso, and Jen Neale, and I couldn't be happier about it. Here's the link to the Facebook event. Twenty-five days and counting!
The people who are subletting my wonderful little apartment arrived late at night on Thursday. In preparation for them, I spent the better part of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday packing extraneous stuff into boxes and shuttling it (and one hella-heavy oversized suitcase) all down my rickety apartment stairs. It's five days later now and I am still sore. Fun times! Anyway, it's all done now. Hurrah! The subletters are LOVELY, my stuff is packed neatly away, and I am officially a transient up-to-no-gooder for the next 2.5 months. Three cheers. I am currently house-and-dog-sitting for dear friends who, as it happens, live a short jaunt away from my apartment. Here's a picture of my new roommate. His name is Atticus, and he is wonderful:
I'll be housesitting until the 14th of August, at which point the travels begin in earnest. First stop: a night in Toronto, and a reading at the TO ChiSeries. And then: the world! (Or a scattered tour of the Canadian part of it, anyway.) I am very excited to go, not least of all because I'll be meeting so many of my Twitter acquaintances in real life for the very first time. Also, I'll be seeing and spending time with a great many old friends, which thrills me to no end. Who knows: I might even get some writing done. My enthusiasm for The New Novel has waned considerably, as anyone could probably have predicted, but I'd still like to have a revised, workable draft done by the end of August. Now that my things are packed up and the subletting taken care of, I'm hoping I'll be able to get some good work done over the next few weeks. There might be time for a writing blitz or two before the 14th. Eleven days! That's plenty of time, right? My fingers are crossed, anyway.
