Ha cha cha. If I had some $2 stamps, I could just put this bay-bee in the mail right now, but I don’t feel like putting 8 $.37 stamps on this, and I’m not *100%* certain that it’ll be $2.75, although that seems likely. Made an appointment with H&R Block for 2pm next Friday for to have the taxes done. Ha cha cha!

I have the very best husband. Thanks, Ted, for bringing in the good paper from the car for me this morning. *beam* Thinks to do today: 1. write 1700 words 2. swim 2500 yards 3. print S&3 for Tor 4. clean the kitty litter 5. clean the dog pen (do I know how to have fun, or what?) 6. write HoS synopsis 7. call H&R Block for taxes appt.

Quiet day. I re-read The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown. I still adore both of those books unconditionally. *Man*. I don’t know how many times I’ve read them, but I could read them a hundred more times and still love them. It’d be good to write books like that. :)

For Marith, a list of ten, or something like it, favorite first lines of fiction: 1. “It was a dark and stormy night.” — A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle 2. “Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with…

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Going to a movie later this afternoon, so I’m going to assume I’m done with writing for the day. I could be wrong, but that’s what I’ll assume. 2030 words, which ain’t bad. 50K in 30 days: 26,380 ytd wordcount: 45,090