Blargs. Sociology midterm tomorrow morning. Shouldn't even be on the computer - God knows I'm distracted enough at the best of times.

Miserably cold. Not a good day for people with abnormally long extremities. Like me.

OH MY GOD I AM EXCITED FOR CHRISTMAS.

Mom was making Christmas cake and tourtiere this afternoon (that's a savoury French-Canadian ( Read more... )

Let me get this straight:

I've lived in my neighbourhood for all of eighteen years, and for ten of them there was an antiquarian book seller three blocks away?

Katie went on a field trip today. To heaven.

I spent sixty dollars on new old books! I have a collection on interpretations of Alice in Wonderland, a book on folk tales of the British Isles, a ( Read more... )

*happy sigh* Outside my window, the elms on my street are just STREAMING these great big lemon-yellow leaves, and they're kind of turning and flashing gold in shafts of sunlight. Also, there's a pair of magpies playing under the leaves on my front lawn.

I'm going to take that as a good omen, because magpies are my lucky birds, and, as they say, "One ( Read more... )