- Having no internet connection at home SUCKS.
- Moving house at VERY short notice also SUCKS.
- Moving away from bogan landlord and his bogan family ROCKS.
- Packing up 100 boxes of books (this is, (un)fortunately, not an exaggerated number. I counted.) is not the most thrilling way to spend a few days. Packing SUCKS.
- Being a packrat ROCKS — until you have to move, at which point you have to clean out boatloads of crap you’ve collected over the years — and then you have to clean the spaces you’ve cleaned out. Double-cleaning SUCKS.
- Knowing that the place you’re moving into is better equipped than the previously mentioned Bogan Villa; that it has a laundry room, a bath tub, a little yard, and many walls against which to lean bookshelves ROCKS.
- Getting a rejection letter from F&SF SUCKS.
- Sending the rejected story out to a new market right away ROCKS.
- Natcon proving it isn’t a Not-con ROCKS.
- Having the loans officer at the bank tell you that your pitiful PhD scholarship makes an increase in your credit limit ‘unaffordable’ SUCKS.
- Knowing that being broke means you can do nothing but write (because writing’s got the biggest free budget ever) ROCKS (and sucks a bit, too. Trying to find the silver lining here, people.)
- Moving, and all of the crap that goes along with it, will be over by the end of this weekend, which completely ROCKS.
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Lisa L. Hannett 
Lisa going to Natcon with the extended Clarion South crew ROCKS
The Bogan-Villea pun ROCKS
Getting back on the rejection horse that threw you ROCKS
Writing being a free activity SO ROCKS
Money, well, that always SUCKS 🙂
The Bogan-Villea pun ROCKS
Heh heh — thanks. I’m a big fan of bogan-related puns 😉
Can’t wait for Natcon – esp. since the fun’s coming to us this time ’round. Extended Clarion crew totally ROCKS.
BTW — I’ve only just read about your 2 sales: Jasoni ROCKS. Yay!
Bring it oooon! I’m so freaking excited.
re sales: why, thank you ma’am [doffs hat] was pretty happy with that outcome meself 🙂
Getting a rejection letter from F&SF SUCKS.
Yeah, but you’re in excellent company — and the majority!
😀
And at least it was a personalised rejection…
I have a theory that he has a robot that can mimic human handwriting
You might be onto something there… The rejection did make it back here awfully quickly. Damn that robot!
10 days from Wollongong & back, door to door.
Fuckers… 🙂
So the robot(s) are actually stationed on the mail plane, sending out rejections before the stories even make it to America. What bastards 😉
I reckon they have their own plane
Or, they have an office here in Australia, filled with Rejection Robots (TM). The stories never even make it off Australian soil…
so *that’s* why we can’t score! Cos it can’t be because I’m not utterly brilliant. ITS A CONSPIRACY!
*scowls and shakes fist at the sky*
Damn those robot conspiracies!!
Margaret Atwood?
yeah, thats the one!
I think ROCKZ wins – and think how sweeeeeet it will be on Sat night when you can relax in a real bathtub instead of that old iron bucket you’ve been using in the backyard! xxx
So how is the moving in going, Lisa? It’s gotta rock.