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I have many things to say today!

Actually I have many things to say every day, but a lot of time I don't have the time to say them.

First, cassie_phoenix and linlesiryn, if you're reading this, can you email me? Copperbadge at gmail. You have no contact info on your LJ pages and your numbers are up for Nameless signed copies. :)

Second, Adaigo Tea is doing The Roots Campaign, which is a cool setup where they profile a different tea farmer every month, and 10% of the sales of the tea they provide will be donated directly to them. Last month they raised something like $650 for the farmer (above, of course, what they pay for the tea to begin with). It's also an interesting look at the life of various tea farmers around the globe. And Adagio's a good company, I buy all my loose-leaf from them.

Third: If you are the USDA, and there is a major beef recall, surely the major beef recall should be linked from your home page. Or at least "food recalls" should be linked, instead of totally absent in any way from any area that a customer would intuitively visit. I know I should know what brand of beef I buy and where it comes from already, but I buy from Costco and then repack it in small serving sizes when I get home. I try to buy green and local, but sometimes I just don't have the energy to save the world through my choices in food consumption. Anyway, for everyone's reference, the USDA recall information page is here.

I also have some stuff to say about NaNo and some of its trends this year, but it's on the netbook and the netbook is at home. And by the time I prep it to post it might be irrelevant, so we'll see.

OH ALSO even my mother was less than impressed:

I didn't care much for the NCIS last night...seemed to much like a rehash of past shows and I don't like that guy Gibbs used to work for. Are Ziva and Tony ever going to go out?

<3 her.

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I've been working on Valet of Anize at a more intense pace since NaNo began; I'm a punk NaNo bootlegger, and I defy the Man by never signing up formally and subscribing to Simon's radical opinions on the topic of editing and rewriting, but that's okay because the essential concept still works. (More on this later.) Miraculously I've maintained almost a thousand words average a day, and will keep that up if I can do a little more tonight.

I find that as much as I love writing Carry and enjoy building Carry's view of Leigh Anizin, I have to work very hard to keep Bart and Stick at the periphery of the story where they ought to be. They're funny and weird and Bart's built on a sexual Jack Harkness model and Stick's kind of a kicked puppy of a puritan, and they're just so much fun.

Which informs me that even in stories I write, I prefer the sidekicks.

And given that I chronicle my life here with what I think is a reasonable amount of dry amusement, I think it's safe to declare that I am, in fact, my own Watson.

I suppose this is better than being someone else's Watson, but at least if that were the case sometimes it wouldn't be me breaking limbs and catching the plague.