{"id":31,"date":"2002-01-02T13:40:16","date_gmt":"2002-01-02T18:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/back_to_work"},"modified":"2002-01-02T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2002-01-02T18:40:16","slug":"back_to_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/01\/back_to_work.html","title":{"rendered":"Back to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI’ve bowed to pressure. I now have a Contact<\/a> page.
\nOf course, this pressure came from people who already have my email address.
\nHmmmm…\n<\/p>\n

\nAfter some deliberation, I’ve decided to hide my private email address behind a
\nscript. I just don’t feel comfortable putting it out on the web for
\nanyone to grab (particularly a spambot). Maybe I’m being too cautious.
\nBut the way I see it, my email address is like my phone number. Heck, maybe
\nit’s more important — after all, I’ve had the same email address for
\nthree-and-a-half years, while my phone number has changed three times.\n<\/p>\n

\nFirst day back at office, and basically I just made more work for other
\npeople. Heh, my kind of day!\n<\/p>\n

\nI still have a lot of unpacking to do. To avoid that,
\nI picked up a couple of books at the bargain rack at Waldenbooks. The first was
\nIf
\nYou Lived Here, You’d Be Home by Now<\/a><\/i>,
\nby Sandra Tsing Loh<\/a>. It’s… OK.
\nI like her language and her style. But let’s face it: she’s taking her shots at… Los Angeles.
\nHow hard is that? Plus, I can only take so many sardonic comments and wry observations
\nat one sitting. Pot calling the kettle, maybe, but still.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe second book was The
\nComplete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Science Fiction<\/a><\/i>. Hey, it was three bucks. And it’s not
\nwithout its charms. Take the cartoon sidebars. When the authors provide an anecdote, they
\nuse a cute little cartoon of an astronaut pontificating, labelled, “As You Know, Bob”. When they want
\nto warn you about a publishing industry pitfall, there’s a cartoon of Robby the Robot,
\nwith the title, “Danger, Danger!” How could you not love a book like that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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