Awards, Health, Football, Rewrites, Meme. Five Things and All That...

[mmerriam]

I woke up this morning to find I'd been nominated in three different categories in the Preditors and Editors Reader's Choice Awards. The nominations are in SF/F Short Story ("Nor to the Strong" in Ray Gun Revival), Horror Short Story ("Secret" in From the Asylum), and Author.

Huh.

The nasty ick has moved from my nose to my throat and lungs. Yeah.

I wrote my first 500 words of the new year last night.

On a positive note, I woke up hungry for the first time in since the day we flew home. I've been eating because I know I need to, but I've had no appetite until today. I'll take that as a positive sign.

The plan today is to watch the OU/West Virginia game I recorded last night, then settle in and work on rewrites, punctuated by occasional naps.

And now, a meme:

In 2008, mmerriam resolves to...

Lose ten twin cities by March.
Find a better urban fantasy.
Go to the renfest every month.
Volunteer to spend time with sf conventions.
Give some writers to charity.
Give up scotland.

Get your own New Year's Resolutions:

Comments

[wvchemteach.livejournal.com]

I have to think that a lot of the Michigan vs. Florida game had to do with the emotion surrounding Lloyd Carr's last game. They had the reason to win... Florida instead was probably disappointed to even be there.

Still Ohio State has had a time playing SEC schools recently. Then again the Big 10 schools aren't much for scheduling tough opponents outside of their conference unless it is by accident like Michigan vs. Appy State.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Which the main reason I'm so down on the Big-10 (even though I live in Big-10 country) in bowl games. They don't schedule tough out-of-conference opponents (they play a lot of MAC schools), and since they don't play a championship game like all the other conferences (except the Pac-10) they have a longer lay-off between their last regular game and the bowl game, giving them too much time to get rusty and out of sync.

[wvchemteach.livejournal.com]

As it stands the SEC, ACC, Big 12, Conference USA, and MAC Conferences have a championship game. Out of those only the SEC and Big 12 could be considered "true" power conferences... the ACC raid of the Big East really hasn't panned out as both Miami and Florida State didn't continue to be the dominating powers they were 5 years ago... allowing teams like Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Boston College, Clemson, and Virginia Tech the opportunity to rise... but with the exception of Virginia Tech none of them have reached that pinnacle

You do have the Pac-10 and Big East who don't have the championship game... but both have done well the past three years in the bowls. *shrugs* But then again USC is USC, but the Big East right now has 6 of 8 teams that are potential contenders... and a 7th Pitt that might be there in another year or so. I think the Big 10's problem more than anything is they have teams designed to play in the mid-west winter but then play the bowls in Miami, New Orleans, Glendale, or Pasadena against teams built around speed instead of brute force like most Big 10 teams are built.