Distractathon!

[merriehaskell]

Per Steve Buchheit's brilliant recent realization, I went and nabbed all the Lang #color# Fairy Books from Project Gutenberg. There are helpfully formatted Kindle editions, even. I also nabbed all the Oscar Wilde and Grimm fairy stories there

Comments

[dendrophilous]

Per my last entry on the copy-edits: I stetted "only".

Yay!

Re: Meat. I'm also trying to curtail, but I'm not the main grocery shopper by a long shot, so...it's tough. I need to make more bean stews.

[merriehaskell]

Bean stews are so good. I need to make more of 'em too.

[iuliamentis]

Much as Adult Me appreciates the look and feel of old-fashioned spellings, Young Me would have been irked--I likely would mispronounce the word as a result of reading the old spelling, and then I'd get embarrassed *g*

[merriehaskell]

Exactly the datapoint I was looking for.

Since I didn't write this book thinking about kids and that really worked for the book, I am occasionally afraid to overdo the thinking about them now. (If there's a kid in mind when I write, it's my own childhood self.) That said, I don't want to NOT think about kids. Delicate balance.

[cathshaffer]

You stetted "only??" How could you?!?

(Yeah, I'm a troublemaker.)

[merriehaskell]

Clearly one with too much time on her hands. Good thing we're getting you out of the house.

[steve_buchheit]

Glad I could help with the reference.

The curse of the "cur" words. No Indian food for you, then.

[kelly_swails]

Yay for leaving "only"!

As for the vegetarian thing, I hear ya. I go through spurts myself. I didn't eat read meat for about five years and I was totally fine with it. A How I Met Your Mother episode about the best burger in New York finally made me cave and make meatloaf. I usually feel better if I skip the meat.

I grew up in hunting/fishing country, and so you'd think I'd be okay with killing my own food, but it really doesn't square with me. Nicely wrapped hamburger in the store? Okay. Deer salami from a friend? Okay. Field-dressed deer in the back yard? Not okay. When the zombie apocalypse hits, I'm so going to be a nut-and-berry sort of survivalist.