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Today I went to Dark Delicacies Bookstore in Burbank for a BPAL in-store. Scents I bought: Gelt, The Rose, and Sugar Cookie, plus Proserpina bath oil. This weekend I've also worked on chapter ten (and will do more this evening) and rewatched Tootsie (for novel research). My novel research viewing for the Jo book is such an odd melange of soap opera/acting stuff and political violence/war stuff.

From fairmer and matociquala and others, ( that writing/publishing meme... )

A little late, but: happy birthday, voleuse!!!

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Two BPAL reviews from recently received frimps:

MIDNIGHT KISS
Eternal desire, unquenchable passion: red musk, cocoa absolute, Nepalese amber, red sandalwood, aged patchouli, nicotiana, and blood wine.

On me this smells almost exactly like Snake Oil, which is good, though not something I'm often in the mood to wear. Thankfully the patchouli doesn't come through at all.

DRINK ME
However, this bottle was not marked `poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.

A very sweet, light, cake-y scent, similar to Eat Me, but I like it better in theory than actually wearing it.

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I finally got caught up with the ( Sarah Jane Adventures... )

Got my BPAL order last night: Pumpkin Patch #1, 3, and 5, plus a bunch of frimps. This morning I tried Pumpkin #5.

PUMPKIN V
Pumpkin with benzoin, bourbon vanilla, lemon peel, neroli, blood orange, and red ginger.

In the bottle it smells almost identical to Pumpkin Queen, which I love. Wet, it's very similar too, but a little more tangy. When it dried down, it turned to a sort of orange chocolate scent, which I guess is the blood orange and the vanilla, and the pumpkin mostly vanished. A sweeter, less complex scent than Pumpkin Queen, but I like it.

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So far I've been successfully avoiding all the new TV shows, as I don't want to add more TV watching time to my schedule. I may try Pushing Daisies, though, since everyone loves it. I wanted to watch Supernatural last night, but I got started dl'ing too late, so I must wait to see it tonight, argh!!!

Ryan's Hope has been amazing this week, especially Bernard Barrow (Johnny), Michael Levin (Jack), Ilene Kristen (Delia), and most of all, Ron Hale (Roger). The only real weak link is the wooden, teleprompter-reading Michael Hawkins (Frank #1)...especially painful if you've seen the excellent actors who followed him in the role.

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I worked on the chapter three revisions at lunch today, as every day this week. Doing a lot of rethinking and embroidering, scribbling longhand on the draft. This weekend I'll sit down at the computer and try to make sense of all the scribbles.

According to BPAL, Red Devil is "A sinfully playful lust blend. Inspires sexual spontaneity, a little bit of kinkiness, and new and inventive ways to get dirty." Ironically enough, on me it smells like soap. A sweet, spicy soap, but soap nonetheless. Pleasant enough, but fairly boring - and above all, very clean! Weird.

(And on an unrelated subject: it's just a week until the new Doctor Who! Wheeee!)