If I weren't already reading the Drink at Work site and blog, the post on Coping Poorly with Rejection would take care of that. Check it out: http://www.drinkatwork.com/2005/04/comic-strip-writing-101-coping-poorly.html
I have a trip planned to a local garden store/nursery this weekend that I'm very excited about now that I have a little background knowledge. Thanks so much for all the suggestions, I know what part of the store I need to look around in now. :-)
Wow, thanks for responding so quickly. Ok, here goes:
Jill: Any plant that skedaddles is a plant I need to own.
Lucy: My balcony gets morning sun and then bright shade. I live on the side of a hill and the balcony faces the back of it and gets a fair amount of reflected sunlight. I'm also in Seattle, so yes, precipitation both occurs and gets through the netting. It doesn't get terribly cold here, the low is about 35 degrees F in the winter.
Aconite: Luckily, my balcony is solid concrete and very sturdy. Good thing too, as I'm six stories up. Also, because it's enclosed on three sides it doesn't get too windy. I'll email you more info about the general layout.
Thanks so much to everyone for their help!
I have questions for this group of almost disturbingly knowledgeable gardeners.
I have no garden of my own, being an apartment dweller with no attached land. I do, however, have a roughly 4’ deep x 11’ wide x 10’ tall balcony with an iron bar railing about halfway up on the 11’ wall that’s open. (The other three walls are brick or sliding glass door and windows.) It gets about 4 hours of direct sunlight a day. The landlord has also put black netting with roughly ¼” holes across the entire opening in an effort to keep out the pigeons that liked to roost messily on the balcony.
I have no idea if this is possible, but I want to plant something that could grow up the railing/netting and maybe even flower and photosynthesize, and whatever else plants do. Obviously there’s no actual soil currently on the balcony, so I’d have to plant it in pots or trenches. Are there plants that could grow up without needing a lot of root space? If so, any suggestions?
I’m also interested in herb pots, as they sound a bit easier (they’re okay in windows?) and hopefully a little harder to kill. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. I’m a little worried that my complete lack of gardening experience is going to translate into accidental herbicide, and so far the gardening catalogues have been more confusing than reassuring. Thanks!
JVP: Uh, death please. No, cake! Cake!
Xopher: I was going for gentle sarcasm at the expense of the poor copyeditor, but I’d be happy to imply karmic retribution instead. I have more sympathy for copyeditors than Chief Justices anyway.
Going along with the general "fun with words" thread, I caught a lovely sentence from this CNN.com story:
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist did not participate in the decision, which was heard in November when he was being treated to thyroid cancer.
He must have been very good indeed to get such a treat.
The Terri Schiavo case depresses the hell out of me. It has special resonance for my family, as we just had a discussion about a feeding tube for my grandmother with Alzheimer's and internal bleeding that put her in the hospital. She's immobile, responsive but rarely coherent and is not often awake anymore. My grandfather made the decision to put the feeding tube in because he couldn't bear the idea of having his wife of 60 years starve to death. I have distinct empathy for the Schiavos and the Schindlers. These are not situations where anyone wins.
There's a shred of silver lining in that this case and my grandmother's case has prompted my family to have discussions about our wishes in case anything similar should happen to any of us. Morbid as it may feel, I'm really glad we did.
oh, Leigh, it's not sick and wrong to me. I'm a huge fan of flavored martinis, since I like the general martini idea but really don't like olives, vermouth, or gin. (Ok, so basically I like vodka and martini glasses.) I prefer appletinis and raspberry martinis, but I've gone so far as to have a watermelon martini. It was a bit Jolly Rancher, but not bad.
Also, thanks for the opinions on everyonewhosanyone, I was hoping it was a good agent reference site from a writer with a bad attitude but between the email to that "f*cking c*nt" of an agent and the posts here... yeah, not so much. I find it hard to believe the New York Times actually read that far and still did a piece on the site. For once, I hope they didn't and crap research is to blame for the writeup they gave him.
I found this site (http://www.everyonewhosanyone.com/) off a NYTBR article titled "Where to Find Digital Lit" that described it as "One of the great treasures of the Web, this site is a listing of every agent and publisher the writer Gerard Jones contacted in his quest to get his various manuscripts published -- in other words, everyone who's anyone. Jones has reproduced many of his e-mail exchanges with his targets verbatim, which in some cases makes the publishing community look like decent, sensitive people doing the best work they can in a difficult field (here's to you, Daniel Menaker!). Other times, not so much. Either way, the site will tell you more about the book world than any five ''How-to-Publish'' treatises combined.
I went to the site expecting to see some interesting commentary from a writer looking for representation, and it is interesting. One email to an agent includes the seemingly serious sentence "It will be a tricky book to get published, however, partly because everybody's scared of offending Oprah Winfrey but mainly because it's good and agents and editors traffic primarily in schlock these days." He also includes emails from agents asking him politely and firmly not to post their email on his site next to the posting of their email on his site.
Has anyone else seen this? Any other opinions about what he's doing?
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