> >I didn't get it before Shalanna's response, either, but it arrived 
> >in the same batch of mail as your query above.  It's from Lezlie.
> 
> For me, Lezlie's message arrived in the same package as your answer to
> me

>That figures.  I think Fidonet propagation was always a little
quirky, but with such a small echo one notices much more.

 Then the original arrived at the same time as Mike's repost of
it.
> 
> Weirdness
> 
> How are you doing? What are you writing now? How is your health? How
is
> the household income situation?

>I'm slogging away on the Liavek novel.  It is at least well and
truly launched now -- five chapters and counting. 

I'm very happy to hear that. I'm looking forward to this one.

> I'm also
thinking about a joint sequel to HILLS and WHIM, and the editor
who is reprinting the Secret Country books is actually interested
in such a weird wild object.

That's cool! How was Hills received in general? It was so out of the
ordinary, I'm curious to know whether it bothered or pleased people

>I'm starting to believe that the reprints will happen, and preliminary
reports of the general attitudes of the sales reps and the numbers of
orders are pretty encouraging.

Better and better

>My health is better.  I got to cut the dosage of one of my four
blood pressure medications in half.  And I'm thinking that if I
am attentive to diet and exercise, I could probably cut another
in half sometime in the next few months, or cut this one in half
again.

This is encouraging. I was completely off blood pressure medication,
but got thrown out of the Zone during the trip to New Zealand, so I'm
back on a low dose right now, working away to get things back to where
they were. I'd also lost weight, which all came back, but it looks as if
that's starting to shift again, too

>The income situation is pretty awful.  David is working and I'm
writing, but the money is very uneven and we have an enormous
debt load, partly my medical bills and partly the result of our
habits when freelancing still brought in huge chunks of money far
apart.  We'd put stuff on the cards and then pay it off as soon
as we had money, but if you get to a point where you don't have
money, this is a problem.

Urk. Yes

> Laurie (feeling out of touch)

Yes, how's by you?

The law firm I'd been working with for the past 4+ years closed down,
but one of the lawyers I used to work for found a job for me where I
work from home. The BC government is putting all legal documents
on-line, and I'm part of the development team. More than twice the
income I had as a paralegal, with no commute. Office politics has me
cooling my heels at the moment. I have enough set aside to coast for a
whole month. If the trouble maker isn't gone by the end of that time,
I'm in real trouble. If I can pull something out of it, though, things
have been (financially) going very well.

The workload was so high between April and now that I haven't even had a
chance to look at my writing, but now I'm taking this unexpected
'holiday' time to catch up in my yard and to get back into writing

Lisa has now been living here for a year, and we both appear to have
survived the experience

:)

LJ


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