Florida was hot and damp and flat and green and exactly what I needed, especially the thunderstorms. Ate, drank, swam, played, wrote a little — about twelve hundred words of a story I’ve been meaning to write for maybe ten years; either I’m finally ready for it or the sight of John Kessel’s daughter crowning Matt Ruff with the Tiptree tiara has fevered my brain. I could get used to the lifestyle, if only there wasn’t work tomorrow.

Lots to catch up on. “Fetch” will be reprinted (or, rather, printed) in Strange Horizons: Best of 2003. Nick Gevers reviewed Flytrap #2 for Locus and called “The Ideas” a “deftly conceived allegory of obsession and inspiration”. The proofs for ASZAS are almost ready to go out. And yesterday I got within striking distance of the end of my zeppelin story.

Went to the gym, got the car washed. Things are looking up.