Author: Stacy Horn

I had my first interview yesterday, on the Ghostman and Demon Hunter show.  I’m not sure how I did, but it was a good first interview for me because it was so friendly.  Thank you Nathan and Shaun.  You crazy men, you!  (They are insane.  But a good insane.)

I took a snapshot of my desk right at this moment because it’s a good peek at what’s going on with me, since I basically live at this desk.  Notice it’s still dark out.

– There’s a cat on it, as per usual.  Buddy.  
– And the daffodils that I found and snapped up in an effort to improve my frantic state of mind.
– The pile with the People Magazine on top is the reading material I’ve been collecting for the various train trips I have in my almost immediate future.
– The Watchman belongs in that pile. It’s misfiled!  It’s on top of my Beethoven Missa Solemnis score, which is still kicking my ass, but less and less.  
– Behind the Watchman is my to-do pile.  On top of that pile are the prepared answers I wrote for every question I could think of that people might ask me.  (I blank sometimes in interviews, so I have to practice answers, just in case.)
– The phone is the old-fashioned, not-mobile one that I keep for emergencies. On 9/11 no one’s cellphone worked and everyone thought phone service was out, but it wasn’t. If you plugged in one like this you got a dial tone. I pulled it out for the radio interviews. Not just in case there’s a terrorist attack during my interviews, but because one place asked me to. Maybe the sound is better on non-mobile phones?

I keep feeling like I’m forgetting something, something important. What??  Oh well.

I just updated the blog for Unbelievable. I’m trying to do that more often now that some people are actually looking at it. I noticed it’s getting a little traffic lately, which is great.

This is the back of the main branch of the New York Public Library, the one with the lions out front. I’m often coming up to it from this side.

It’s like landmark city here: the library, the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building.

Meanwhile, I am feeling very seriously stressed, frazzled and overwhelmed.  I feel like I shouldn’t complain, lots of people would kill to do the things that are making me feel this way.  But I am a wreck.  It is what it is.  I’m going to transcribe some interviews, I have to do that, but after that I’m taking the rest of the day off.  I might go jean shopping, I might work on choir pieces, I might get into a nice bath with a bunch of magazines and stay there until I’m a prune.

I was taking a picture of my new necklace to show everyone and look who immediately jumped up to check it out.  That’s Buddy sniffing a picture of Buddy.  Finney’s picture is on the other side.  (That Glamour Magazine on the left is in my soon-to-be day off future.)

To have one of her necklaces made go here.

I took this picture of the Empire State Building looking through the trees of Bryant Park behind the New York Public Library.  Sigh.

Tuesday is my pub date.  TUESDAY.  I have literally been talking about this book for years and now it’s here.  On Tuesday.  Tuesday!!  I wish I could relax for two seconds and enjoy it.

Oh!  Oh!  I got the Betina Wasserman necklace I ordered with the pictures of Buddy and Finney. I thought it was going to take a month!  I’ll take pictures of it later and post them.

Head long into the darkness??  I took that coming home the other night from my monthly MBSR meeting.  I love being at the front of the train, looking out the window into the track tunnels.  If you look down at the rails, it’s dizzying, like being on a carnival ride.

Meanwhile, still freaking out about getting everything done that I need to get done.  So hi and bye!  I’ll be back later.