Who says rednecks don't have senses of humor? On the sign outside Buddy's liquor store in Gulfport, MS it reads, "We specialize in screw-top wine."

44 day rejection from Amazing. An extremely nice, personal letter from Kim Mohan, giving me a fairly detailed critique/analysis of the story, and telling me exactly where he thought the trouble spot was. Very encouraging and complimentary letter, with a "I want to see more of what you've done" in it. He also said that one ding against it was that it was fantasy, and that he's trying to skew the magazine heavily toward SF, at least for now.

I can certainly understand the need/necessity for form rejections, and I've certainly received my share in my time, and still do, but still, it's awfully nice to get the "send me more" letter. Almost makes not selling the story bearable.

I got un-lazy and did nothing but cardio at the gym today. I did 15 minutes on the elliptical trainer, and then a mile each of walking and running on the treadmill. However, treadmill running isn't the same as street running, even though it's still definitely a workout, so if I'm really going to try and do this 10K I'm going to have to work up some sort of route to run around here. As well as figure out when to run.