I hope the leg heals up for her quickly, erika! Please send her my best.

glad your mom came through the procedure OK, erika.

I forgot to mention, with my temper tantrum earlier: we got some Chocolate Therapy from the Kwik-e-Mart around the corner, last night. It is yummy!

And, thanks for letting me blow off craxiness earlier.

ION, I'm so tired I'm nauseous. So, off to bed I go.

erika, if your mom really needs a diversion, have her Throw Rocks at Boys. It's good for what ails, sometimes... [link]

I forgot to mention, with my temper tantrum earlier: we got some Chocolate Therapy from the Kwik-e-Mart around the corner, last night. It is yummy!

t smack forehead

I knew I forgot something at the grocery store.

t remembers the pint of Graeters butter pecan in the freezer

nebbermind.

No Chocolate Therapy within 40 miles of me. It's probably a good thing, but crap.

For Jilli & Aimee and vw.

Hannah Fury talks about reading Wicked:

BLG: I have to ask you about the cycle of "Wicked" songs inspired by the book of the same name by Gregory Maguire. How did you come to write them?

HF: So, regarding the Wicked songs: A friend lent me "Wicked," and I was completely lost in it. Obviously the book itself is wonderful, so imaginative and beautifully written. Perfect, really. Gregory Maguire is amazing. But mostly it was the main character herself that touched me so deeply. I really think Elphaba separated from the story at some point and became absolutely real to me. I became totally obsessed with her and thought about her constantly and for a long time after finished the book. It felt like I had a crush on her, or was even in love, because she was always on my mind, and I had this longing feeling that I can't describe. It was like I had lost her when I finished the book, and so there was this emptiness, this sadness. It just felt like my heart was broken. But her ghost was always there, haunting me. I wasn't able to concentrate or anything. It was the weirdest thing, very sorrowful and difficult emotionally, but very wonderful too.

I think I really identified with her and understood her in a lot of ways, too. How she was so misunderstood and alone, how people thought she was too strong to need love, how she was thought of as evil, and had to feel that way about herself, how she felt ugly and different and so she devised ways to protect herself because she was really very sensitive, and the fact that she sang "songs of longing and otherness." There were times when I felt so close to her that I'd almost say I became her.

So the songs came out of that obsession, that love for her, that desire to help her. They just came one after the other, and all of a sudden I had six of them. Some of them were written through her in her voice, and others were written for her in my voice. Five are on the album and the last one will be on a single.

And Steph, your description of your dad's behavior made me literally groan in recognition.

Beej, thanks for the book recommendation -- I just checked my library's website, and put it on reserve.

Hec, that's really cool. Gonna go check her out now.

That is very cool.

Hannah Fury, eh? Huh. Probably not so much available in Cairo.

kicks table.

Dinner was homemade crab quiche. Yum-mee.

Did you work with Dr. Ellis for the copy? ... Any idea when the new copy will come out?

No, to the first question -- with new editions, I'm usually asked just to revamp the old copy and add a new spin. And my notes say it's coming out in February 2006. I hope there's a new look for the cover, too. The old one was pretty bare bones.

I just checked my library's website, and put it on reserve.

Tep, if you like it, I can get you a copy, I bet. If I hadn't sent back the one I used for writing the copy, I would have sent it on.