In Which It's A Holiday

No real post today, since it's a Holiday and I won't be online much, if at all. I was going to return to blogging last week but I was sick. Actually everyone in the house was sick. It was pretty much a miserable week of wanting to sleep but not being able to sleep and being in stupid pain from the neck up and running out of Kleenex because everyone was using them constantly.

But it seems we're on the mend. I still have a cough and I'm sure it will stupidly linger, but at least I'm back to sleeping mostly normal.

Anyway, I hope you have a nice holiday and I'll be back on Wednesday with a new Wednesday Weird (another strange murder mystery) and I hope to see you here!

In Which I'm On Vacay

Hey all! I'm on vacay this week, which means no blog posts (and probably no blog post next Monday, either, just due to a conference this weekend).

It's supposed to be warm this week, which means gardening (of course, we went to the cabin to put the dock in this weekend and couldn't, because of the 3 feet of ice still covering the lake. And it snowed a little bit up there on Saturday. Yep. Minnesota).

See you all next week!

Friday Fun

YES! WOOO!! We did it, ape-friends! We made it through another week and now we have reached the weekend!

Pat yourself on the back

It's extra exciting for me, since we will be going up to the cabin for the weekend. And the snow is finally gone (crossing my paws that it stays that way)

So let's get your weekend started off with some fun!

Wednesday Weird: Ata the Humanoid

**Warning: Creep Factor Ahead**


On October 19th, 2003, a man was looking for objects of historical value in the ghost town of La Noria, a ghost town in the Atatcam desert in Chile.

Near an abandoned church he found a white cloth containing a strange skeleton around 6 inches in length.

It had nine ribs, hard teeth, a bulging skull with a nob on top.

People didn't know what it was. Which, makes sense, because look at it:

 

 

 

 

Some people thought it was the remains of a fetus. Or perhaps a monkey. Others thought that finally, here was proof of extra-terrestrial life on earth.

Was it any of those things?

It turns out, no, it wasn't. DNA testing released this year (2013) confirmed that the skeleton was indeed human, but a child (probably) between the ages of six and eight. 91% of the genome matches the human genome, and the 9% that doesn't match could be due to multiple factors, including the quality of the specimen and techniques used. It's mitochondrial DNA, though, show that it's mother was a Chilean woman.

They're not sure how old the bones are, but probably at least a few decades.  The genetic mutations that created it are still unknown, though it's clear the child lived for quite a few years, despite its tiny size.

Thoughts?

In Which I (Still) Revise

Revising. Revising. Revising. That's what I'm doing right now. Well, it's specifically what I WANT to be doing. I'd say I've only been about 60% successful the last few weeks just because of work, and MFA application stuff and other junk.

I heard back from one reader (you know who you are and you are awesome) and I made some big changes based on that. I may still make some more big changes based on her feedback, but I'm sitting on those a bit to let them marinate and also wait on a few other readers.

I really need to work on emotional things throughout the whole MS, as well as some entire MS setting work and theme weaving and junk, but for that I'm going to need to print the whole bad boy out and get to work with a pen. Which is fine, I'm looking forward to it, but I don't want to do it until I'm fairly set on the big picture things that have happened. So until that happens I'm just kind of...tinkering I guess. Which is fine. Stuff gets done. But it doesn't get done quite as fast as I want it to.

So, yeah. Just keep on keeping on I guess.

How about you? How's your WIP going? How was your weekend? Did you see Iron Man 3 (because I did. I saw it HARD)

Friday Fun

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Have I said it enough?

Now that the word has lost all meaning, let's get this weekend started off with some fun!!

IWSG

Holy crap, I alllllllmost forgot to write this post.

And I don't mean the IWSG post, I mean the whole dang blog post! Got distracted by the sparkly things on the interwebs.

Anyhoo, I'm feeling pretty good right now. Last week around this time I was feeling slightly insecure, but I think that comes and goes for all of us. This week I'm excited to have time to get back to work revising.

So I guess, I dunno. How are you feeling? Insecure? Confident? Somewhere in between?