hello blog-buddies!

Thank you for all the good wishes that I have received.  My friend is doing much better!  Thank heavens.  And I made delicious chili, with corn tortillas fried in butter, with sour cream and grated cheddar cheese for dinner and if that won’t lift one’s spirits up, nothing will.  I should have measured what I put in the chili so I could post it for you, but I was in too much of a hurry with finishing the screenplay and all.  Next time. 

You really wouldn’t believe the things I huck in there!  Fresh brewed coffee, a glop of molasses, cinnamon, nutmeg, along with all the savory usual stuff.  The problem with this particular dinner is my mouth is always hungrier than my stomach is.  They duke it out.  The mouth wins (the mouth always wins when I cook this) and then the stomach groans and is bloated for the rest of the night.  Why, I bet when I wake up tomorrow, I’ll still be full!  That’s how much I stuffed my face.

I’m full, but when it comes to important things, I don’t let fullness stop me.  I’m nibbling on a strawberry champagne truffle for dessert.  (I am sorry to inform you that we have finished the orange Buck fizz and are working on the second layer of Strawberry Champagne.  Alas.  It’s sort of like when you are on vacation and it’s the day before you have to leave, the end is in sight.) In a couple more days, these glorious truffles will be but a fond and distant memory.

The GREAT news is, I just sent off the Porcupine screenplay to Rosie, several hours before the 12:01 a.m. WGA strike deadline tonight.  Phew!  And I’m actually quite pleased with how it turned out.  It’s always hard to adapt one’s own book into a screenplay because in order to fit into the time frame and screenplay structure, you have to be quite ruthless and chop out huge hunks of it.  Much easier to do when it’s someone else’s child.

The nicest thing about sending the screenplay off is that tomorrow I’ll be able to answer all those emails that have backed up over the last week and are chomping at my conscience.  (If I forget anybody, please forgive me.) Hmmm… what else?  That’s it I think.  I’ll write a longer one tomorrow.

Oh!  I almost forgot!  I got an email from a lovely English editor (who was so supportive of Gemma when nobody else would touch it with a ten foot broom.  She wanted to do it, but her house wouldn’t let her.) Anyway, she’s at a new publishing house and has asked me to send her a packet with all my published books and a manuscript I’m working on.  I have to remember to do that tomorrow.  Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Posted by Meg Tilly on Sunday, November 04, 2007 in Chewing the Fat

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