When Does Skydiving Season Begin Again?

Today in New York it is a beautiful and spring-like 65 degrees. And once the weather turns warm, my mind instantly turns to one question: When does skydiving season begin again? I know it’s bound to turn cold again soon and last year when Bear and I started to learn to jump, it was too [...]

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Put A Ring On It

I got actually a little revision done on Elijah’s Chariot yesterday, but I think I need to muddle out some other themes/issues before progressing with it.

Things I Have Learned About My Novel Over the Course of Revision

  1. This is not a story about saving the day; this is a story about three children struggling to stay friends through impending civil war.
  2. This is not a story about good vs. evil; this is a story about finding your moral centre in the midst of compelling, but wrong extremes.
  3. This is also a book about parents (or the lack thereof): good ones, bad ones, false ones, true ones.
  4. Miracles are not only linked to a state of Grace, but to strong emotions as well; love above all. (I know, I know, how Harry Potter/J.K. Rowling of me.)

The first was a bit of a revelation for me. [...]

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Hand Me My Leather

Oh god, I could finish this chapter, but I swear I can’t keep my eyes open.

The novel now stands at:

70,508 / 90,000 words. 78% done!

Projected word count has been changed once more. It looks like it will no longer be 100k, thank goodness. I am so close to the end I can practically taste it and it’s killing me. It’s rather like running the last mile of a marathon, when your lungs are afire and every last fibre of your body is screaming to stop and take a rest, but you know you can’t, you are so close and almost done. (…)

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My Weekend or How I Should Have Cutaway My Main Canopy

So it was bound to happen. Someone as accident-prone as I was bound to sustain some sort of injury in skydiving. The verdict? A minuscule hairline stress fracture in my pelvic area that will put me out of commission for 4 to 6 weeks. The good news? It’s so damn tiny that it will heal [...]

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A Cross Between Swimming & Sticking Your Head Out of the Car Window on the Freeway

One weekend at the dropzone has passed and already I owe an obscene amount of beer. I committed the cardinal error of saying the verboten words “first jump,” I landed 12 fucking inches outside the beer line, and because it was my first jump out of the Skyvan, I owe more beer for that. The [...]

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Another Year Older

My grandmother is so badass. Because I went down to Pennsylvania at the last minute this past weekend, I couldn’t dump my skydiving equipment behind so I had to lug it all with me on the train (my poor helmet is getting increasingly banged up and I’ve hardly even used it!). She took one look [...]

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Head Under Water

If there is one thing my mother excels at, it’s having the worst timing ever. For instance, Sunday night she calls me at Bear’s house to ask for a favour. “Sure, Mum,” I say, “What is it?” “Can you come down to Pennsylvania? It’s a bit of an emergency; I’m in the hospital.” After a [...]

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My Abs are Pathetic!

My personal trainer totally beat my ass into submission last night. I am not quite sore…yet but dear god, I can tell this weekend might suck a little. After I tottered into the door, Wicked Cool Riley remarked, “You look wrecked.” And I was. But man, did I sleep like a baby last night. I [...]

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Swooping The Slip 'N' Slide

more cat pictures Oh I Can Haz Cheezburger, you have never been more awesome. So I made an interesting discovery last night: my altimeter is glow-in-the-dark! I’m so easily amused. Like a small child. Ooh shiny! Coming into work from New Jersey this morning probably was not one of the wiser decisions I have ever [...]

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High and Low Solos

Oh dear god, I am poor, poor, poor. In addition to my high and low solos today, I bought a helmet, an altimeter, and goggles, which was much more expensive than it ought to be. But the altimeter was rather necessary as I was entirely on my own today. Saturday was spent being naked and [...]

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