lkh_lashouts | "Vacation, sort of." June 11th blog post. (Reply)

I'd like to add that it had been months since Jon and I got to wonder a bookstore, simply browsing, not because I need something for research. Not because we were buying a present for someone, but simply because we wanted to browse the book shop. We got lots of interesting stuff. I did buy some things for research, couldn't help it. GUIDE TO MARINE MAMMALS OF THE WORLD was the main one I got for research. It's actually going to get used on the current book, if not on stage, it's information that I as a writer would do better knowing. But I bought two books that were just for fun, just because I wanted to read them. Like I said, it's been a long time since I went to the bookstore without a work oriented agenda. The GUIDE TO MARINE MAMMALS was just a happy, useful, accident. Serendipity at it's best.

Now, this is actually kind of interesting. Marine mammals as research for the new AB book? I smell a new werecreature in the offing...who wants to take bets on wereseals or weredolphins or even weremanatees? Part of me is intrigued, another part screams GOD NO NOT MORE SUPERFLUOUS CHARACTERS.

...while Trin is gone on vacation with her Grandma and Grandpa, Jon and I are going to be doing what relaxes us. Good bookstores, reading other people's books, eating at nice restaurants that have no children's menus (all you parents know what I mean), have lots of alone time between Jon and myself (yes, I mean sex), but not just sex, also a chance to talk to each other without a half dozen people running in and out.

...Okay. "Alone time" is already letting we-the-readers know a bit too much about her personal life. We can certainly read between the lines and understand that "alone time" is code for sex. Her actually TELLING us that she had sex with her husband this weekend? T. M. I. We don't need to know that! We don't WANT to know that! Don't misunderstand me, I suppose it's good that she and her husband have a successful relationship on whatever level, but...WE. DON'T. CARE. And we certainly don't need to know about their bedroom antics. For God's sake, she bitches enough about fannish speculation on her sex life as is...why add fodder to the debate?