Yeah, I hate how a tiny thing can get in the way of getting on with it. I may try again later.

eta: assuming,that is, that nothing comes of your inquiry or it takes too long.

connie, it depends on the organisation. I'd actually been referred to them, within a day of sending my original email, to the guy in charge of archives for a different branch of the British Army; he got back to me at once, gave me the name and email to contact, and warned me that they're sometimes slow in response.

Deb-I thought you'd like to know that when I popped onto amazon today to check something, it recommending four books that it thought I might like...and one of them was Famous Flower! I just thought that was pretty cool considering I don't use the buffista link or anything.

I've given myself a deadline of 12/30 to write a draft of The Mystery. Because I am sad and need the, um, external pressure rather than the Fuck Around and Write Two Paragraphs A Day if That's How You Feel method of previously. Although that will probably just make rewrites take longer as I just blaze through commiting errors of fact, but, I figure that will give me a murder to show the murder po-lice that I can't get any attention from.

Kristin, tres cool!

erika, right now, I just want to have three hours in which to not have to be madly involved in the legal push for a recount, so that I can finish this damned short story.

I know what you mean...now, more guilt...am I slacking? You're not in that alone.(Let me know what Conyers says, if anything.) Deb, I'm just trying to trick myself into thinking it matters if I finish, because recent events make my writing feel as relevant as trimming banzai trees or... dancing about architecture, and that depresses me to the point where I don't/can't do anything. But I did mail that letter this morning.

erika, you aren't slacking. And right now? That letter is the most important thing I could possible write, and mail.

I definitely did. Ecstatic that the printer replacement happened in time, for the GAO does not deserve to read my handwriting. Karl Rove does. In the dark. After I have had many drinks.

Ginger, Bev, Anne, anyone around for a very short beta read? It's very short, just a small section of Gravekeeper, but it's pivotal in establishing the victim, the crime and the setting, and I need to know if it pings properly.

I'm here, if you're interested.