"Have You Been a Good Girl, Jane?"

Thus far this morning I have done the morning email-and-blog crawl, showered, gone off to Potrero Hill to the post office (for 1300 stamps) and Office Despot (for envelopes, ink-jet mailing labels, and to order the printing of the Nebula Ballots, to be picked up tomorrow). Brought my spoils home (a BART ride and then a Muni bus ride there and back) and am now starting out to finish the last 50 pages of markup on an ms. we're critiquing in my writers' group this afternoon.

All this before coffee. Which I am making now, in abundance. In my book, to have gotten this much done on Saturday morning before coffee argues a degree of neuroticism, and yet, yes, I have been a good girl.