henna day post

It's henna day, and I'm sitting here with the green glop on my head, listening to the Passing Strange soundtrack and reeling at the financial crisis/bailout. Later I'll try to finish up the chapter seven revisions and make another trip to Trader Joe's.

Last night I watched the 1972 production of The Scarecrow (which first aired on PBS) starring Gene Wilder and a very young Blythe Danner. A wonderful play, and possibly the best performance I've ever seen from Gene Wilder (which is saying a lot).

I finished reading Amanda Cross's Poetic Justice yesterday, and it was all I could do to make myself take a little break before continuing on with the fourth book in the series, The Theban Mysteries. I'm still reading Diary of a Provincial Lady and the Louis Edmonds biography...

noveling Sunday

The utterly recalcitrant chapter seven revisions are DONE. Wheeee!

24,961 / 90,000 (27.7%)

# of pages revised: 90

I'm hoping to finish chapter eight (which doesn't need much more work) this week. Chapter nine will be a doozy, but it should be fun.

Now I'm eating Trader Joe's triple ginger snaps and drinking Riesling. I think I'll read a little of the London Review of Books and try to wind down...