connie, it just gets better.

Small nitpick: would it be monastery, rather than convent? Convent makes me think nuns, not monks. Are there monks?

yup, convent is for nuns, monastery is for monks... and why does that word look misspelled?

There will be nuns. I've wondered the precise difference myself, beween monastery and convent. Is there someone more expert in the subtleties of Catholicism about who can clear this up? I've always wondered if the difference has to do with the degree of cloisteredness, with how connected they still are with the world.

I'm pretty sure it's just a male-female separation.

Based on a quick Google and no more, I think the "convent = women / monastery = men" divide is the main, possibly only, one. It may be more complex than that, but I can't find an explanation at the moment.

That's the common English way, at any rate. this page might be worth a quick glance if you're interested in going further. And makes it clear that they're pretty much interchangeable in most circumstances.

Well, I've always planned on this being a house of nuns, so I'm good that way.

Oh, and my Spike's Desoto miniature car came in the mail today. I popped open that collector's sealed display package and am rolling the car around my desk right now, running over things and pretending they're the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign.

Music-while-writing note: much of above bit was written to various parts of the Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack. Good for working on tense bits.

Thanks, Am! God, I love the Net.

Spike's Desoto miniature car

Can I just say WANT!!! ?

That is all.

eBay. Just saying. YOu can also get Giles' Citroen, Xander's Bel Air, and Angel's convertible. I'm resisting the full set.