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I caught a lot of the speeches last night and while it wasn’t easy watching they were instructive. I don’t think I’ve felt that much bile rise in my throat since my bout of food poisoning and I really was fascinated to figure out what the triggers were (when not eating bad chicken). I want the reprehensible characters in my novels to elicit such strong emotion. Apparently it requires a solid base of hypocrisy, a lot of condescension (not as much condensation), fear of losing power as a driving force, anger, arrogance, a swagger predicated on bullying and a general attitude of belittling anything or anyone you don’t like or understand. Soooo, I just need to channel Rudy and I’ve got it 🙂 Oh, and lies. Lie early, lie loudly, and lie often. Embrace your lies and come to believe them.

Thank you television, and thank you Republican Convention. Now I need to disinfect my tv before I watch something wholesome, like Gossip Girl.

I ran in the New York Nike 10k HumanRace today and not only enjoyed it, I survived it. I forgot just how much fun pushing yourself to your physical limit can be. If I can still walk in the morning I’ll consider it a complete success 🙂

What an interesting 24 hours! Like his politics or not, Obama gave an incredible speech. Not to be outdone, McCain chose the governor from Alaska to be his running mate. Don’t know much about her at this point, though did hear that she thinks polar bears shouldn’t be on the endangered species list and shoots wolves from the comfort of low flying airplanes. How…sporting of her. I genuinely do appreciate shaking things up, but a VP is supposed to be ready to lead the country at a moment’s notice. I guess I’m part of the multitude that is very surprised at McCain’s pick.

Well, not entirely. I’m back from my vacation and still in the afterglow of the great weather, friends, family and relaxation (not to mention Tim Horton’s coffee!) I enjoyed in Canada. I’m also an avowed political junkie and so eye-deep in the Democratic Convention tonight with Kerry, Clinton and Biden speaking.

The weather has been brilliant this week here in Ontario, Canada and I’ve been out doing my best to enjoy it. On Monday I was in Toronto and met a few of the S&S Canada people, Nicole, my publicist, Rob, the national accounts manager and Janice the regional manager. Chris of Bakka-Phoneix on Queen Street was also there then we all went back to the store where I met Ben and had a chance to look around. They have a huge selection of SFF in a very cool section of Toronto. If you’re ever there it’s worth a long look. They really know their stuff. I found out they are one of the reporting stores for Locus.