Stacy Horn

8:42am.  Just finished my second interview of the day.  It was only ten minutes long so it was short and painless.

Before that I was on the Coast to Coast AM with George Noory from 2 – 5am. That was a pleasure, and he was a great host, but I have no idea how well I did. As per usual, sometimes my mind would just blank and I couldn’t access information I know I have in my brain, and I’m afraid I sometimes rambled. The picture on my desk are the notes that I had planned to refer to, but the few times I tried I couldn’t find the ones I needed so I gave up.  (I took that while I was on hold, so that’s a live, as it was happening show!)  

One caller asked me a particularly sad question and I did my best to give her a real and compassionate answer.  I’m afraid to go back and listen to what I said.  I really wanted to give her an answer that might give her some peace.  But maybe I rambled there, too.

I’ve gotten some nice email about the show, but then I also found a website where the people were live-chatting about it and they wondered why I was even on.  They said I was just flogging my book, something I tried not to do.  I tried to focus on the work of the lab, and how cool it was, and I probably did talk a lot about the parts of the research I liked best.  Ugh. Can’t win. It’s not easy, people!!

I’m doing a reading in Boston this week. I am looking forward to that, being in Boston. Not the terrifying getting up and talking in front of people part, just being back in a place where I once lived.

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.