The Girdle of Melian

Resolutions that may or may not be achieved: finish Lobster Press query and get it in the mail (not for The Face of A Lion, not yet!) go to the library and do more research for The Face of A Lion write last 3-4 scenes and finish The Face of A Lion! select photos/art to have framed with gift certificate! work even harder for the January exercise since I missed December and only did half of November learn how to spell excercise More resolutions to come; these are for the next two weeks!

I have finally completed one major part of my TO DO list, and it only took me a year to do it! I started using LibraryThing last January and thought I would be finished cataloguing the library within a fortnight or so. Well, 12 months later, I've finally done it! - adding a pile of books to the library even as I tried to catalogue the ones we've already got. It seems when I started it, I didn't realise how quickly it would become such a boring job - it's too quick a task to be chatting at the same time and yet too slow for me, who's used to doing at least two things on the computer at once, if not ten. But kudos to the folks at LibraryThing for putting together such an easy to use template. You're only allowed up to 200 books before you have to pay for your account, so I had to get eight different accounts before I managed to put all our books in. Should I do our CDs/videos/DVDs/LPs as well? I started that once so I would only have to add everything purchased si...

The more I look at it, the more it fits - what else could one want in a title? Alright, let's see. The lion part refers to both Kedi (especially in one scene) and the lion/lamb dichotomy, as well as the Roman entertainment of lions in the arenas. Kedi has the face of a lion since he is obviously not a lion, but a cat, who can behave like a lion if he so chooses. One of the characters also gets a tattoo that features a lion, though he prefers it to be an antagonistic image, whereas Kedi's lion is more of a defender. Then, of course, the lion is king of the beasts. In a roundabout way, as well, I suppose the title could also refer to lions coming up out of the desert to assail the woods of Britain, and though that is certainly the context of the story, I don't want to imply that the Celts were wiped out entirely. The Roman invasion was necessary for the spread of certain ideals, but the Celts, and later the Anglo-Saxons, certainly had some ideas of their own. The quote from w...

Ta da!!!! That's it! That's the title! Whew! More info later when I pause to catch a breath.

In Ancient Time An Anchor in the Waters From the Sea The Light on the Hills Still trying to think of a title...

Let me accomplish one thing by the end of this month. Five-day contest begins at midnight tonight; by December 1st I'd like to have a title for the Austin and Kedi story. The winner will have a ten dollar gift card from any store mailed to their home. Sure, why not, it's the first Sunday of Advent this weekend, and that means it's almost Christmas! So far I've been thinking along these lines, but not one captures the right spirit of the story: The Sea Rises Out of the Shadow of Artemis When Rome Was... (fill in the blank) Kedi's Tales: The Roman Invasion of Britain There and Back Again (thief! Bevan! We hates it forever!) Kedi's Tail: A Journey in Time The Rising Sea Austin in Ephesus How Austin Travelled to Ephesus and What He Did There "Light and shadow by turns, but always love" Walking Backward Through Time The Rising Sea series, Volume I: Kedi's Tales, Book I: The Cat, the Boy and the Lady

I've tagged myself off Pam's Blog, but I'm missing the letters G, H, J, L, Q, V, W, Y and Z. Even when I procrastinate I can't get it right! A) At a friend’s house, playing tag, ran smack into a glass door and bled profusely from the wrist – still have three scars. B) Burned a hole in a friend’s sweater with a Bunsen burner. C) Corners of desks. Chairs. Coffee Tables. Anything sharp aimed directly at my legs. D) Dentist horrors: Fillings back when they still used The Ring and, on the way to (not from!) having a root canal treatment, during a snowstorm, fell in the middle of the street and tore up nylons and legs. Still had to go to the appointment. E) Egged on boy who said “I can eat all the ice cream off my cone in one lick.” Called lunch monitor for assistance when he started choking. F) Flu caused me to spew from every orifice. ‘Nuff said. G) H) I) I was two years old... My mom was supposed to be cutting my nails but she was on the phone, so I thought I’d do it mysel...