I’m starting to get excited about National. I haven’t been on a trip since the conference in Reno, so I’m really stoked for this one. I managed to get my editor and agent appointments with minimal effort. It took 11 minutes to get both booked, which may put me in the minority given some of the posts I’ve read about others who had a tough time logging on. I’m not sure if it had to do with the fact that I logged in a few minutes before and just started hitting the refresh button until access was granted or what. Either way, I pulled off a coup getting both the editor and agent I wanted. Someone indicated you could see the time of the appointment when you clicked in the box, but I wasn’t wasting time to even look. I saw the names, clicked and rushed to the finish. So I know I have appointments with Hilary Sares from Kensington and Jessica Faust from BookEnds, and I hope those appointments don’t crossover into any of the other sessions I really wanted to attend, but if so I’ll work around it.Meanwhile, I’m barrelling through the read through, making notes for the synopsis as I go which will hopefully help me condense this baby down to a 5 page summary. I’m tightening things up as I go and doing some line edits, but so far things are reading pretty good. Some of my chapter-mates and I are doing a write-in at Starbucks tonight so I’m hoping to get some more done this evening.
In other news – I am signed up and geared up for soccer. I have my cleats, my shorts, my socks. Need to exchange my shin pads because they aren’t very comfortable, but then I’m good to go. We start on May 25th. No practices, just jump into the game. Which should be interesting given I haven’t actually played in over 20 years. Here’s what I remember of the rules: See ball, chase ball, kick ball, score ball. Do not score on your own net. Do not touch ball with hands. Do not kick other players in the shins or hip check them off the field. I think that should get me through. We start softball the same day, so right now my Sunday schedule looks like this: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon – two softball games. Nap. 5:00 pm – Soccer. Somewhere in there I’m hoping to get some BF time too. Maybe I can nap on his incredibly comfy couch between games…
