This is Where I’ll Be in 2008
This is my desk. I do most of my research away from my desk, and all my writing/revising at my desk.
This is the view when I look up from my laptop to the left of the window in front of my desk. It was given to me at my first signing for Fourth Comings.
This is the view when I rotate my chair to the left. When my dad sold his collection of 5000+ record albums a few years ago, I only took one for myself: Barry Manilow’s Greatest Hits.
This is usually hidden behind the door to my office when it’s open, but is revealed when it’s closed. It’s my place for putting keepsakes that don’t belong anywhere else in the house. My name in simple Chinese(MAI-ZHI-AN) translates to WHEAT-MAGIC FUNGUS-SAFE. Awesome.
This is the view to the right of the door separating my office from my son’s playroom. The 8 X 10 glossy was an entry in YM magazine’s Young and Modern Man Contest 1995. I was an unpaid intern when I snatched it, and have put it up in every office I’ve had since. The other is an authentic front page from an unproduced episode of Freaks and Geeks.
These are the bookshelves in my office.
This is the view to the left of the door separating the office/playroom. It was published eleven years ago for an article I wrote for Fitness magazine about genetics, diet, and exercise. I’m with my mom. And I’m wearing very high-waisted pants.
This is the view to the right of the window in front of my desk. This is Couple d’amoureux dans un petit cafe by Brassai (Paris, c. 1932). I’ve had this poster since the summer I was 16 and bought it at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s also the picture on the postcard representing the word LOVE in Marcus’s word by word message to Jessica in Charmed Thirds/Fourth Comings.
So now you know where I’ll be until I finish JD5. I won’t have time for blogging in the traditional manner because I (unlike Meg Cabot who stuns me with her prolific output) cannot do both well.
I will continue to post (retro)blog notebook pages on a M-W-F schedule. And it’s also worth coming back regularly so you don’t miss entries like this, or other updates on JD5, events, and more.
I’m excited about the new year. And I hope you are too.
Best wishes in 2008 and beyond…
Megan
