Enchantments
Musings About Writing and Stories About Life

She's like the girl in the movie when the Spitfire falls
Like the girl in the picture that he couldn't afford
She's like the girl with the smile in the hospital ward
Like the girl in the novel in the wind on the moors

~~Marillion
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Lacemaking, marriage, and illegitimate children

Saw a season 5 ep of Buffy we’d never seen, and it looks like we haven’t seen the next one, either, so that’s spiffy. It feels like it’s not really over! Sort of…

Finished copy editing. Based on previous journals, the indexing should take me about four hours tomorrow. It’ll “take” longer than that, because that’s four hours on the stopwatch, and doesn’t include bathroom breaks, lying on the floor after taking Advil for my shoulder pain, etc.

Long talks tonight about the future, plans, goals, etc. Very tired now.

Ah! Neil Gaiman went to the Milford Writers Workshop in the 80s. I’ve been to the same workshop as Neil Gaiman. Hot damn. (Sadly, though, not in the same hotel…) I wish I could go back. Someday…

By the way, yesterday was the Feast Day of St. John-Francis Regis, a seventeenth-century patron of lace makers, marriage, and illegitimate children. That’s from my Forgotten English calendar. It goes into the pile of days to save. There’s a story in there somewhere. Marriage AND illegitimate children? And lacemaking. One of those potential hobbies that lurks at the edge of my available time.


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