jackshoegazer | (no subject)

Ah, glorious day! Tis the birth of a log weekend, my once-a-fortnight stretch of worklessness from Friday through Tuesday that revitalizes and rejuvenates whilst numbing employment displeasure!

In other words, TGIF.

This weekend should entail more editing of Le Book. Well, hardly editing. We've just decided to add some detailed footnotes filing the reader in on some less-than-obvious aspect of the strange universe in which the story takes place. It's about a quarter of a dimension over from ours. Almost everything is the same, but for instance, the Atlantic is now called the Atlantean Ocean because Atlantis rose in the middle of it and is now home to a lot of people and a fabulous vacation getaway called Bohemian Gardens. Yeah. And it just gets weirder.

I will also be creating Ethan's Halloween costume. With his new HALO obsession, he's going as a kind of space-marine of some sort, so I am going to make him armor with these easy-to-follow instructions. This should be quite easy compared to some of the more complicated costumes I've made for him in the past. The year before last, he wanted to be an Aragorn-style fighter and I had to sew and entire costume from faux-leather, which, let me tell you, is no easy task. Here is the final results of that effort. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. Too bad that's the only picture of it. Arg! I even made boots!

Jacquelyn found an amazing and affordable place to live and it's getting more and more tempting to just up and move, even before the fall. It's even got a big yard practically right on the lake. I checked out the schools and they're really good. The teacher-student ratio is decently low and the test scores are quite high. I would actually be saving money moving back to Madison, so all signs are pointing to yes. Add in the possibility of going back to school, it's quite tempting. (I've lately gotten the funky idea of aiming for an MFA, so that would be a step in the right direction.)

And before I go, I'd like to say that drizzling diamonds drum down the drain like daemons in my brain and all I can think is what a waste of precious jewels.