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I am now prepared for anything
Wednesday, October 25, 2006Well, alrighty then! As part of one of the people who helped organize a Civil War Roundtable I was invited to lunch with the reinactors, speakers and the President of the University today. I happened to see the President, at the end, kind of by himself so I seized this extraordinarily rare moment to make myself known to him, because I've never really gotten to speak to him. So he asked me a lot about my life, and I told him things, like I;'d graduated from this same uni as an English/creative writing major, etc. He mentioned that it was possible to get published online now adays, which lead me to confessing I had a publisher for my two books. When he heard they were full sized books, two of him, he was amazed. Of course, then, he had to know what the first one was about. OMGWTFTHIS IS THE PRESIDENT OF AN ACADEMIC INSTITUTION AND MY BOSS OF BOSSES WHAT THE HECK WAS I THINKING? So, I, ah told him. The truth. I gave him a synopsis of Blue Moon, and he accepted it well. Of course, I told one of the faculty about it in the elevator returning to the office, and he gave me a wake up call on how bad I felt about it. So, today, despite the comedic morning I had, was filled with good experiences. I got to watch some reinactors fire their rifles, I got to eat lunch with some people (one of which, who used to be a faculty member of my department and is now in administration I'd wanted to get to know better, because he's a really interesting person.) and I got a reality check from someone who I respect that will help me when I'm trying to sell my book. Most of all, I have this: if I can tell the President of my University about my book, then I can sit there and tell anyone about it. There is no one more mortifying to speak to on the subject. So, yeah. Good day. Really good day. And right now I'm alone in my office, and there are no emails and only three things to do on my list. Extremely good day. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 2:32 PM 0 comments |