Good news: I got up at about 5:15 to write. Bad news: I got my new ch. 8 started and realized I just plain didn’t have enough idea of where Jo was working out of to write what I now need to write. So I turned off the laptop and came upstairs and started poking around the SPD website. Now I know that Jo works in the North Precinct, which is also where she lives (I knew where she lived before, I just didn’t know it was in the North…
jam, day 2!
Strawberry jam accomplished! Rather a lot of it, in fact. We’ll see in the morning if it’s set up. :) Tomorrow I must also do laundry, because the poor dishtowels are drowning in jam at this point. *laugh* Blueberry jam tomorrow! Raspberry jam the day after that! And then *drumroll* peach jam! Yaaaaaay! Oooh, I wrote a couple of pages with the glass pen. It’s *really* *cool*! It even handles my signature surprisingly well, which pleased me! Water. I need water.
cool
Luna author Deborah Hale has a list of the upcoming (through August 2004) Luna titles here! I think the covers thus far are gorgeous.
weird
Weird. I’ve just made a batch of chocolate chip cookies, and I did not eat any of the cookie dough. Possibly for the first time in my entire life. Now that the cookies are done (and it’s a *perfect* batch)… I don’t actually want any. Apparently this spontaneous diet thing is not to be messed with. It’s sort of interesting. My mental dialogs have been going something like, “Wow, that smells good.” “So? I’m not hungry.” “…oh.”
*laugh* who, me?
Oh dear, you are Bookish, aren’t you? You are ahighly intelligent and witty bluestocking,whose beauty is hidden behind spectacles. Yourdress sense is eccentric and a littleunfashionable, and you consider yourself plain.You have very little use for men, who find yourknowledge of Shakespeare, interest in politicsand forthright speech formidable. You areundoubtedly well-off. The only reason for yourpresence in a novel of this kind (which, Imight add, you would not dream of reading,although you have occasionally enjoyed theworks of Miss Austen), is your mother, who isabsolutely determined that you will make a…