It’s been one of those days. I went to the post office as part of a very busy day yesterday, and the ARCs of Cat the Vamp had arrived. Today I thought I would finish catching up on backlogged e-mail and get the pre-pub review copies of Cat the Vamp ready to ship. Then, at around 1:30 p.m., I had a call from a Bill Scott looking for a guest for a two-hour web-radio show called Into the Shadows. It focuses on paranormal/conspiracy topics and they wanted a vampire expert. Tonight. I can’t afford to pass up a promo op so I said yes.
I went on catching up with mail–still not done! I went out for groceries because I had nothing left in the house (leftover party platter fruit has fed me for two days in row, though! I sorted it out and weighed it so I could calculate the calories, because I’m now back on my dietary regimen after five days of eating con party food almost exclusively, bleh. I intended to buy some healthier food in Montreal and never got around to it!).
I had to make more of my oatmeal/whole wheat cookies because the ones I took to Montreal got waterlogged in the cooler on the way home. That’s an involved process because I have to make the fruit pulp from fresh fruit–strawberries and blackberries for this batch–plus chop dates, weigh and measure everything, calculate the calories, etc. I started those while my hair color was setting because now I had the radio show from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. Four minutes before I was about to start cycling, Staples called and wanted to ask me a few questions about my “experience” using their Copy Center for the convention flyers and banners I did last week. Well, my “experience” was terrific and I told them so, but their timing for follow-up phone calls sucks rocks. *sigh*
Ten minutes into my cycling, my next door neighbor knocked on the door. Fucking UPS left the entire shipment of Gideon Redoak in their garage!!!!! Four cartons, about $800 worth of books!! Those assholes!!!! Gods, but I swear UPS must have a maximum I.Q. for hirees–no one above an I.Q. of 80! They are so fucking stupid!!! I apologized profusely to my neighbor and now I have to complain to Lightning Source and UPS. I had to hop off my exercycle to answer the door, had no idea where I’d put my shirt and went to the door in my leggings and sports bra, thereby giving the neighbor a thrill. “Oh, are you working out?” he asked sweat-dripping me as I helped him unload books from the trunk of his car. “You look good!” Well, thank you. He should know, he sure got a good view. *grump* When I subtotaled the calories after I ate supper, it came to 666. I wasn’t at all surprised.
Got workout done, got the cookies done, and to my amazement, got sunset attunement done without an interruption. Yesterday my sister called me just minutes before I would have started and we talked for about an hour.
The radio show was rather fun and I talked for the whole first hour. Then they had other guests talking about UFOs and conspiracies, but I actually know a lot about UFOs so I jumped in on that, too. They mentioned Mortal Touch and By Light Unseen Media and my website about twenty times so it was really great PR. I’m not sure how big their audience is, they said about 1000 people. They had open lines for call-ins but nobody called. Bill and Chris Sloan, the hosts, say they’ll have me back when The Longer the Fall comes out.
