Lot's of ~ma for your family, Laura, and strength~ma to the nephew.

I have spent the evening scooping up yummy Ethiopian food with aurelia, tommyrot, shrift and ChiKat. My day is complete.

Ack, Sumi! What a horrible day. I hope you're warm and happy now.

I missed your birthday, Bev. I hope it was wonderful!

Laura, that's so awful. Health-ma to your nephew and strength to you and the family.

Jilli, you definitely need that book. Though Pete could probably make you one for free.

Sorry about the cold, Hil.

I think that's most of what I wanted to say. I am so tired. It's been a really hectic week. The high school literary conference I run is next Wednesday, so I've been drowning in prep for that in addition to normal teaching load. And even though I'm only taking one class at a time and I can work at my own pace since it's online, pursuing a second masters degree while teaching full time can be challenging sometimes.

Working full time, working towards a graduate degree, running a conference...but I still feel like a slacker next to Drew.

Is it fair use to buy an adult coloring book and make a few copies of some of the pages to color different ways?

If it is not, I'm in trouble. I do this all the time.

My thinking is that, if you are not profiting from the copies, as Steph said, it is not an offense.

Thank you for sharing that sale, Epic! I cannot, in good conscience, buy a single pencil or pen, but some of those books are really calling me.

The 'calming colouring' is making me giggle.

sumi, you have just lived out my worst nightmare. How awful for you! I'm with everyone else, you deserve blankets, soup and every possible comfort.

Laura, I'm sending your nephew healing thoughts.

Eta: Proper identification of Epic.

bonny, I can't remember who came up with the link for the coloring books at zulilly, but it wasn't me.

Thank you for reassuring me it's ok to share a bit of the fun of coloring. I used to print out coloring pages from free websites for people to color, but the printer we have now is a bit of a PITA, so I stopped. People keep asking when I'm going to bring more... and I thought this might be a way to do that.

And one of the coloring books I'm looking at on Amazon, you get a .pdf of it, so you can print more copies for yourself... alrighty then, if that's not tacit permission, I don't know what is.

It was Epic!

So sorry for the misidentification.

I think that I am definitely going to go for the botanical drawing course book. It got great reviews on Amazon. I love coloring botanicals but am not so good drawing them.

Great find Epic!

Wow. I Am just coming off a nasty migraine and am suddenly all exclamation marks!

Sorry.

Way too exited in my glee over being well and at the weekend.

Plus. Using my fancy new stylus on my fancy new I touch when I really, truly should be asleep

So, I had an anxiety attack thing last night that lasted a few hours and I gave up trying to sleep. I haven't slept. This is bad. I'm going to have to call out from work for lack of sleep and try and figure out if I need to stay up all day and then sleep or try and get some rest and then sleep.

I'm torn.

Not so much an anxiety attack, well partly, but I think my therapist is on to something, but everything kind of welled up last night and crashed down around me. I don't even know what to say when I call work ina few hours

{{{{{askye}}}}}

Oh askye, that that really sucks. Lots of hugs for you.