In the "Alien Encyclopedia" I bought at Goodwill t'other day, I have discovered another great mystery of the unknown: Why, for its illustration of the "Mulder" entry, does it have a drawing of Scully in a very short bathrobe and Mulder wearing only a towel??


Oh, hi. Mom and I have been home for over a week now, I just haven't got around to writing in my journal 'til now. If you want an account of our trip, you'll have to ask stellar_dust, I sent her half-a-dozen letters from 1804 while we were in Ohio, and once I've copied something to external storage I clear it from the primary drive. (I *am* working on an account of our trip home through Kentucky, to be entitled "Highway L-8", which will go up on e2 if I ever actually finish writing it.)

Were I still writing my sister letters, an account of the past week would go something like this:

( 21st July, 1804. Dearest Sister, )

Okay, my regency-speak is getting quite a bit off. Having exhausted Jane Austen last week, in an attempt to stay in-period I've resorted to re-reading the scattered Hornblower and Aubrey/Maturin novels lying about the house. And oh, how I feel for poor Lieutenant Hornblower, every time he tries to respectfully suggest a course of action to Lieutenant Buckland and Lieutenant Bush and has to explain in great detail to his superiors a plan he thought self-evident--- VBS is coming up, and I've had to sit through some really excruciating meetings where I suggest something obvious and then ten minutes later the grown-ups work out the point after discussing it endlessly.

Oh, and speaking of VBS, poll!

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Whee! I just bought a copy of the Kalevala in Latin!