I’m having some cool writerly moments lately. They vary from seeing my name and poem in a print magazine (which I don’t think will ever get old) to magical maybes to wandering around my head with my story and not being able to wait until I can get back to it.
Twenty-four hours ago, I was doing dishes and the sink plugged up for no reason I can fathom, and I discovered I have a leak in the pipe below this sink. Then this morning, the computer wouldn’t turn on. Light was on, but nobody was home. I was beginning to think the world was against me. But I had a lovely day in Little Tokyo with some friends. We went to a Loli-Goth event for the Goth Lolita Bible at Kinokuniya Bookstore sponsored by Tokyo Pop. This is volume 1.
I didn’t go to the event for the first volume. But I had some friends who did. I decided to tag along to this second event to see all the fabulous dressed up Loli-goth girls. It was fun. We even got to make crafty things and talk to cool people about where they got their togs or how they made them. We got to swig pink lemonade and snack on pink pocky and strawberries. This is volume 2, what the event was about.
I did not have appropriate Loli-wear and I don’t think I could have carried it off if I had. The design and materials were very pretty. Very fun. Some of the hair styles were terrific!
I don’t have pictures. I maybe able to link to pictures in a few days, but not yet.
So, we decide to come home (we took public transit instead of driving because it’s just easier) and once we got off the subway at Hollywood and Highland and found our bus stop proceeded to wait, and wait, and wait. Finally we started walking. We discovered a broken down bus, and the one that took people on for the broken one had already left. There was not a second one in sight. So, we kept on walking. Found a good major bus stop to wait at, but by now it was dusk. Marginal people were gathering around the bus stop. Still no bus in sight. We continue walking.
By the time we go to my friend’s house at about 8:45-9PM (we’d left downtown around 6 or 6:30), her uncles took pity on us and fed us cocktails, dinner, and cookies.
Now I am home, and the computer works - miraculously - but I’m still going to have to figure out what happened so it doesn’t happen again. I checked the sink, but the miracle didn’t go that far as it is still clogged and still leaking. In fact, the only reason the water has gone down is because of the leak.
*sigh*
However, I think the miracle decided to continue in another direction as 2 separate places I have submissions to have contacted me saying they’re still deciding and I’m one of the finalists (yay!) and someone who I figured was a no-pay from a couple of months ago, might actually pay me. That would be good.
So, it’s been a really good day, today. On the whole.