Apparently my characters are going to have a row. Good for them; not sure whether it's good for me, and whether I will manage to finish this story. I'm surely going to try, though ( Read more... )

I might have planned to write a sensible post about Victoriana, since I have finished George Eliot bio (then again, I might have just gone on about how some things about her really speak to me, and some things... really don't ( Read more... )

Why wasn't I provident enough to go and start learning Japanese five years ago? Silly me ( Read more... )

Today my body seems to have decided that I'm having a holiday, and that's it: I got up and worked for less than an hour, and then I climbed back into bed and couldn't get out of it until maybe 4 PM ( Read more... )