Signs, manuscripts, and eggs
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la_belle_laideWhoop whoop! I sent out the manuscript!
Okay, so I was bummed because the web page said that I was entitled to a media rate for a literary manuscript, and the lady who worked next to the guy who was helping me started giving me a hard time. "Is it books? Is it bound? You're only entitled to a media rate if it's bound." Etc. In short, she wouldn't let the dude who was helping me give me a media rate. It was only a difference of two dollars, but she was so rude about it and I was just hormonal enough to be really peeved. I went and paid the extra but it still kind of pokes at me. I actually just emailed the US postal service for an answer. I don't care about the money, I just want to be right. ;)
Anyway check this out! I kept the receipt for sending out the manuscript. My clerk was number 9, and it was received at 12:18. I kid you effing not. Oh, and my mileage added up to six. 12:18 adds up to three and the clerk was number nine. 3,6,9. Those numbers have been following me for months.
Okay, so here's another weird thing. First of all, you guys know that I am really OCD about numbers and letters. So it's par for the course that I notice these things.
Err, license plates have been haunting me. For almost a year, everywhere I turn I see a license plate with the name of this particular publishing company. (It's a short name.) They rejected the query letter last year, but seeing their name every frigging where made me want to try again. But that's not the only word I see on plates.
For the last month or so, I keep seeing plates with the word EGG on them. All the time. Everywhere. And today, when I pulled up to the post office, I was beside a car with the license plate EGG. As I was walking to the front door, I passed another one. EGG. After mailing the manuscript I went to Target and was behind a car coming out of the parking lot. EGG.
Now, WTF. I want it to symbolize something cool, like, "This is the beginning of a creation!" and not something crappy like, "You'd better get knocked up real soon, because you're running out of EGGs." Or that I should eat more eggs and less eggbeaters. ;D
Thank you al for the wishes of good luck! This manuscript, it will surely be rejected. I'm not saying that to prepare myself for the worst or anything; it's just a matter of odds. I did, after all, send it to the biggest sci fi publisher in the entire frigging world. I dunno, I just started at the top, where I know they get thousands of manuscripts per nanosecond and reject most of them. And bearing in mind that they already said no when I sent them the query letter. But for some reason, according to license plates, I am supposed to send it to them anyway.
That, and EGG.
And because this is FANTASTIC! Seriously, give it a click; you don't even have to like him to recognize how hilarious and clever this is.
Rickrolling Obama!
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skitty_kitty. Best thing you've ever seen, Y/Y?
Okay, so I was bummed because the web page said that I was entitled to a media rate for a literary manuscript, and the lady who worked next to the guy who was helping me started giving me a hard time. "Is it books? Is it bound? You're only entitled to a media rate if it's bound." Etc. In short, she wouldn't let the dude who was helping me give me a media rate. It was only a difference of two dollars, but she was so rude about it and I was just hormonal enough to be really peeved. I went and paid the extra but it still kind of pokes at me. I actually just emailed the US postal service for an answer. I don't care about the money, I just want to be right. ;)
Anyway check this out! I kept the receipt for sending out the manuscript. My clerk was number 9, and it was received at 12:18. I kid you effing not. Oh, and my mileage added up to six. 12:18 adds up to three and the clerk was number nine. 3,6,9. Those numbers have been following me for months.
Okay, so here's another weird thing. First of all, you guys know that I am really OCD about numbers and letters. So it's par for the course that I notice these things.
Err, license plates have been haunting me. For almost a year, everywhere I turn I see a license plate with the name of this particular publishing company. (It's a short name.) They rejected the query letter last year, but seeing their name every frigging where made me want to try again. But that's not the only word I see on plates.
For the last month or so, I keep seeing plates with the word EGG on them. All the time. Everywhere. And today, when I pulled up to the post office, I was beside a car with the license plate EGG. As I was walking to the front door, I passed another one. EGG. After mailing the manuscript I went to Target and was behind a car coming out of the parking lot. EGG.
Now, WTF. I want it to symbolize something cool, like, "This is the beginning of a creation!" and not something crappy like, "You'd better get knocked up real soon, because you're running out of EGGs." Or that I should eat more eggs and less eggbeaters. ;D
Thank you al for the wishes of good luck! This manuscript, it will surely be rejected. I'm not saying that to prepare myself for the worst or anything; it's just a matter of odds. I did, after all, send it to the biggest sci fi publisher in the entire frigging world. I dunno, I just started at the top, where I know they get thousands of manuscripts per nanosecond and reject most of them. And bearing in mind that they already said no when I sent them the query letter. But for some reason, according to license plates, I am supposed to send it to them anyway.
That, and EGG.
And because this is FANTASTIC! Seriously, give it a click; you don't even have to like him to recognize how hilarious and clever this is.
Rickrolling Obama!
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skitty_kitty. Best thing you've ever seen, Y/Y?
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Date: 2008-08-11 06:11 pm (UTC)I love that Obama vid, it cracks my ass up each time I watch it.
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Date: 2008-08-11 06:59 pm (UTC)Obama, dude, the whole thing just puts a smile on my face. :D Thanks for sharing that.
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Date: 2008-08-11 06:27 pm (UTC)Re: LOVE
Date: 2008-08-11 06:59 pm (UTC)