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  Mairon: Huinárë, we need to talk.
  Me: Yes, I know, I'll work on it tonight, I promise.
  Mairon: Your promises tend to be empty, yet this was not what I wished to speak about. I wanted to bring your attention to the fact that you appear to have named our latest story after a series of collectors' plates.
  Me: ... Well technically, the story title has a definite article in front of it whereas these plates don't, and also their gardens are plural and ours is singular.
  Mairon: It's close enough to be embarrassing. Although, this one isn't half bad.  I require the Cranes of Eternal Life.

  Me: I am not buying you a collectible plate.
  Mairon: You do not think I deserve a collectible plate?
  Me: Okay, how about Goldfinches of Virtue?

  Mairon: We're done here.

I meant to draw and post a motivational cartoon around mid-month, but (while you are all plugging away at multiple-thousand avg daily word counts) apparently this fairly simply task was beyond me.  So, with four or five days left to go depending where you live, I offer my admiration and encouragement of your endeavors in the form of more sea-poms.

Congrats to those who have already met their official word count and are continuing beyond that, and to those who aren't there yet, I know you'll get there.  I've been quite impressed with the progress I've seen you guys reporting on.

Apparently The Old Vic was touring Richard III about a year ago and they stopped within a day trip of me.  Were this now instead of a year ago, I would probably say screw it and spend more money I don't have on getting the train there and seeing it, because my attitude to $ v. Quality of Life is starting to shift.  I've never had money and I've never done things normal adults have done, like go to a concert.  I shit you not, I have never been to a concert.

Anyway, the cool thing about this was that Richard III is my favorite play of all time, and Kevin Spacey was starring and I admire the hell out of Kevin Spacey.  I've enjoyed everything I've seen him in, Shakespeare or otherwise, and he's an avid Shakespearean.

( Cue obsessive raving about Shakespeare obscurities that probably only interest me, but also with pictures of some familiar faces doing Shakespeare. =D )

And you thought it was bad when I spazzed about Tolkien..

I'm told today is Epiphany. I'm also told that this, among other things, commemorates the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus.


I love the Magi and have since I was a wee lass. They're totally my archetype. Also, their song was always my favorite.