i just put a link to 2% magazine on my site. i have a story published in it this month.  total with shipping is $3.50 (basically printing costs and shipping), and i assure you it is greatly worth it.  well…i haven’t gotten it yet, so i haven’t read it yet…but my story alone is at least worth…a third of that…or 10 cents of that…and it’s 30 pages, and the editor is an intelligent guy with good taste, so i’m sure the rest of it must be just as good, or better, filling up the remaining $3.40.   (this is u.s. shipping.  not sure about international…) but you can pay with paypal, in any case.

i would have posted a story today, except for a few things: i have written a few very short things lately, and while they aren’t terrible, they also aren’t fantastic.  so i’ll hold of posting them until i’m really desperate.  i blame this lack of style in my recent stories solely on, of course, my accounting course, whose texts and information should all be placed upon a ship and set alight.

also cause for celebration: i found my journal that i had been doing without for three weeks (this, i believe, was another reason for my jaded attempts at writing of late.  it was like my intestines or other bodily organ went missing for a few weeks, and my body didn’t know how it could possibly handle it).  incidentally, the journal was right beside my bed.

also, i just found a deal for cd-rs: 100 fine quality recordable cds for $25. http://store.yahoo.com/cdrsavings/taiyonotfuji.html (if you have money to cash in on this deal i know you have enough money to buy a $3.50 magazine.)