Well, the business with the accountant is done. Yay! Well, mostly done. She discovered that I may have left a crucial piece of paper home. Well, not absolutely crucial, as if I don't have it we'll just get a mean letter from the IRS - but who wants a mean letter from the IRS? So when I get home next week I get to dig through and try to organize my small mountain of paperwork. Yay.

Also, I couldn't remember what percentage of my income goes to the lovely state of Montana. I'm sure she has a place to look those things up, though, and that she'll be happy to tell me all about it in a few weeks when she lets me know what my tax situation _really_ looks like.

As it is, I now have two financially-savvy people encouraging me to take up the landlord business in Montana. I'm just so ambivalent about being The Man. Sure it's nice to have serfs, but when they want something it's just a headache. And they're not paying me enough to maintain a standing army with which I could crush their wills to ask for stuff.

Maybe if these two financially-savvy people knew that this is how my mind works, they'd change their tune.

Books: I'm leaving later this week to go do some intensive research for the novel I'm currently working on. Also, I received a letter from Clarion West letting me know that they received my completed application. It was worded in such a way that it made me think they get a lot of incomplete ones. Remind me of this the next time I talk about maybe editing an anthology or running a writing contest.