And that was Monday.

When I left for work this morning, it was warm enough to take off my scarf and open my coat. But by the time I left this evening? Holy cow! Cold! Not horribly cold, but enough to make me ask the bus driver when the temperature dropped and then to have a discussion about the quality of the wind (biting, we decided, but not frigid).

Alas. I have doomed all Calgary to more snow, and this is the reason why: on the weekend, I bought some capri pants. And a spring jacket.

What was I thinking?! Buying cropped pants and spring jacket…it surely has the same result as washing a car in the summer: guaranteed to bring bad weather. Ack. Sorry, everybody.

On the agenda tonight…more short story revising. And some reading. I’m working on No New Land. I had to smile at the description of Honest Ed’s in Toronto…I’ve been there, and I think Vassanji really nailed it.

I’d like to be able to write about Calgary that way. One day, I hope to. None of the stories in the collection are explicitly set in Calgary – I suppose some could be, but I’d like to be able to write about the city in a way that makes people see it in their imaginations. Easy to do with Toronto and New York, I suppose – a little harder when the city is younger and prone to tract housing.

Oh, and Random House sent me a couple of books to review…Leonard Cohen’s Book of Mercy and Paul Vermeersch’s The Reinvention of the Human Hand. Both poetry. The Leonard Cohen is pretty much a lock – I like his music, and I like his poetry. The Vermeersch is new, but it looks promising. Beautiful cover illustration, too…a good sign, always.

And that was pretty much the day. An hour and half commuting back and forth to work. Nine and a half hours spent in my cube. Another three and a half to spend at my desk here at home, editing, and then I’ll haul out the printer and to print out and sign my contract for Evolve, the pattern to knit @babybanff’s sweater, and maybe a couple of submissions to send to some magazines.

The submission date for the manuscript is coming up pretty quickly now, but I’m getting excited for it!