A Cosmic Balancing Act

The cosmos seems to have a way of balancing things out, in the most interesting of ways. Yesterday, I was at work thinking about a test I have tonight in Advanced Java, when an email lands in my inbox from one of my partners for this group project I had to do for this same class. The project was due last Wednesday, but because one of the members of my group wanted to try and work out the last of the bugs with the program the professor generously gave us a few extra days, but said it was definitely due in by Friday. So we send to this third member if you want to work on it a bit more fine, just make sure you submit it by Friday. We followed up with is guy to ensure that he submitted the project and we just hear back from him yesterday. When I read his email I hit the roof. His response to our inquiry was yeah, how is that that section of the program you were working on going? Did you guys put anymore time into it? OMG!!! I wanted to strangle him. Not only had he not bothered to look at the section of the project we held up submitting for him to examine, but he was still diddling around with another piece of the project that worked just fine. I got in touch with the professor to let him know what was going on, but I was seriously pissed about this.

Then last night when I get home from class, I check my email again. A little over a week or so back, I submitted a query to The Wild Rose Press pitching a romantic suspense novel that I’d written. Finally, I had a response from them and WOOHOO!! They want to see the full of the manuscript. Now, I realize this isn’t exactly “the call” but still it’s a thrill to hear that someone is interested in seeing your work. Talk about a mood lifter. This is doubly exciting because this is a book that was tucked under the bed because it was just too short to submit to most publishing houses. I think it’s really cool that there are small presses popping up fairly regularly that are open to stories that are less then 65,000 words. This opens up all types of opportunities for writers.

Needless to say, I’m stoked about my request and as soon as I get through that Java test I have today, I’m going to get the manuscript sent off.