I just took this quiz (purloined from gracefullady):   http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/quiz.htm  I am told I am "41% (Yankee).  There are traces of Yankee in you."   It seems I post nothing but quiz results in here.  My apologies for my dullness!  I'll think of something interesting to say one of these days...  

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Please welcome vuzzle (my sister) to the world of LJ-ing.  Have fun, Hanna.  :)

"Biting my trewand pen, beating myselfe for spite,
Fool, said my Muse to me, looke in thy heart, and write."
Sir Philip Sidney

I like that. It reminds me of desperate NaNoWriMo moments.

So why am I writing? I'm not quite sure.
It's snowing here. Quite pretty, but I think I would enjoy snow more if I lived in the middle of nowhere. I don't know why. Well, I always think I would enjoy everything more if I lived in the middle of nowhere.
I have informed all my friends of the plan to do a Pride & Prejudice play, and they seem ( Read more... )

To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The PloughWee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie ( Read more... )

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I finished reading Jane Austen's Love and Freindship last night. What a treasure! It's hilarious. I am amazed that she wrote it when she was only fifteen. If you haven't read it yet, you should! I found my copy at the library, in a book of several early Austen stories. I have yet to read the rest of them, but I'm sure I'll enjoy them very ( Read more... )

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