Vacation schedule--

One shall be in California from the 17th through the 25th of this month. I really don't expect to have much internet access, but I do have a calling card and probable access to phones.

*wry* This may mean a daily call to the roommate for updates on the Chaos that is LJ, this may mean calls for y'all if you want them (comments screened for this reason).

o.O

"It's a strange moment, the moment of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence. What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, although sometimes it can be an unstoppable avalanche. The author's position is an odd one. In a sense he is not welcomed by the characters. The characters resist him, they are not easy to live with, they are impossible to define. You certainly can't dictate to them. To a certain extent you play a never-ending game with them, cat and mouse, blind man's buff, hide and seek. But finally you find that you have people of flesh and blood on your hands, people with will and an individual sensibility of their own, made out of component parts you are unable to change, manipulate or distort."

from here.

*snerk!*

One of our geotechnical engineers just had a shiny moment over our tear-by-hand packing tape.