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I attended a party last night for Gung Haggis volunteers. The Ricepaper people were sadly underrepresented as many of them were working on deadline. The only people present were me, B*, Heather, Don and Jim and Mrs. Jim Wong Chu. (Finally, a sighting of her!) There were actually only about 40 people in attendance in total, but it was still an interesting crowd. There were some members from the Dragonboat team including the coach (who worked on special effects with the CBC) a voice teacher who was the voice of "The Mummy", a woman from City TV, a singer and other interesting folk. The food was pretty good too. I did sample deep fried haggis wonton, but skipped on the haggis itself. We also addressed the haggis and the voice teacher and I read a poem written by Jim Wong Chu, while accompanied by an accordion. All in all, it was a fun, and multicultural evening.

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I'm so crabby today that it's not even funny. I finished putting together my poetry manuscript and was getting ready to mail it to a publisher that I'd chosen, when I noticed that they were not publishing poetry at this time. AAAAAAH! So I had to choose another publisher immediately, because I feel like the manuscript must be out in the world and I don't want it to be sitting in a drawer when someone could be reading it. As a result, it will still get mailed out today. After more searching on the Net, It looks like I will spend part of next week writing query letters to continue my quest to find a home for this thing. It's easier to be lazy and keep it in the drawer. However, I plan to approach every publishing house in Canada before I give up. If no one wants it, I'll re-work and try again.