Friday, September 13, 2002 -

Brush With Greatness

Remember my ConJose' report? And that line about wanting to "punch out Alan Dean Foster"? Imagine my surprise to get an email from ADF yesterday wanting to know why I would want to do that! Yes indeedy! Only I could have an email conversation with an author after twenty years of congoing and never talking to one!

I sent a reply and explained the chain of events to him and offered to edit him out of my post should he so desire, but he said to go ahead and have fun with it. He seems like a very nice man (of course, I already knew he was an awesome writer) and it was nice, if a little odd, to hear from him.

Now that I've brought it up, I should probably explain here how "wanting to punch out Alan Dean Foster" became a highlight of my Worldcon experience, but I'm not going to! He said to have fun with it, and it wouldn't be as much fun if you didn't all have to use your imaginations!

posted by The Dragon's Muse at 5:29 PM | link

Monday, September 09, 2002 -

Remembering

It’ll soon be the one-year anniversary of the attack on our country, and the murder of thousands. I’m not sure what to write, only that I want to write something.

Maybe I should write about how proud I am to be a citizen of this country, and how blessed. I chose to be an American, though I could have easily stayed in Canada and acted on the dual citizenship I held. But I chose this country and these people, and have never regretted that choice. Oh, there are times when some of my fellow citizens make me crazy! But that’s okay too, because living anywhere else is almost unthinkable to me. What happened on Sept. 11 only strengthened my love in my country and gratitude that I live here.

Maybe I should write about implacable rage I feel at those who perpetrated this atrocity. They didn’t just attack those people that were on those planes, in the WTC, in the Pentagon, they attacked me! They want to destroy what they hate, and what they hate is, amongst other things, women like me. Women who walk down the street, uncovered, with the ability to read and write, drive and vote, serve in our Armed Forces and be Free. Hate and murder is their religion. There’s nothing good, nothing noble about such men. When they slaughtered our men, women, and children, and hundreds of others from dozens of other countries around the world, they became my enemy.

Maybe I should write about how vital it is that we stop Saddam and the WMDs he’s amassing in Iraq. This is our responsibility to our place in time as the defeat of Nazism and Fascism was to our grandparent’s generation. Once he has such weapons, if he doesn’t already, he will use those weapons, or give them to those who will. Can anyone who has seen the faces of those that slammed jetliners full of innocents into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, who has listened to the proclamations of such evil men, doubt that they wouldn't have used nuclear weapons if they’d had them? Or infected us with deadly disease? That they wouldn’t rejoice in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of our people, instead of the thousands they did butcher?

I will remember and I will grieve. And most of all, I will pray that our country has the resolve to take up the task of destroying the madmen that would see the deaths of us all.

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"I wish the ring had never come to me...I wish none of this had happened."

"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

Frodo & Gandalf ~ The Lord of the Rings

posted by The Dragon's Muse at 10:06 PM | link

Sunday, September 08, 2002 -

Danger!

Jen, at What's Brewing, mentioned a tea website and their catalogue, and I went and ordered a copy. It arrived yesterday. Oh my!! I was going nuts with a highliter marking off what I want, and what I can actually afford this time around. Gee, thank, Jen, for feeding my addiction! [g]

And the other danger this weekend was Ebay! I got my belly button pierced in July 2001, and since it can take up to a year to heal, I haven't changed the jewelry that came with the piercing. I decided it was time for change, so I shopped around Ebay to find some new stuff. I now own four new barbell type pieces. One with purple crystals, another with two crescent moon, one that's a dragon shield style, and another shield that's a pink jewel, and the shield is a Celtic knot. Now I just have to be brave and change the jewelry! I will admit, the idea kinda squicks me [g]

Other than that, I've dome nothing the last four days except try and feel better, and SLEEP! I've slept a lot this weekend. Probably a good thing.

posted by The Dragon's Muse at 2:52 PM | link