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Happy St. Patrick's Day. This clip won't let me embed it, but here, have some St. Patrick's Day on Ryan's Hope, 1983 (in which Delia schemes, and Malachy McCourt serves beer). Too bad the clip doesn't feature Maeve Ryan singing "Danny Boy."

I've hit 20K of the new Jo book revisions (chapters 1-7). I checked the old draft and discovered chapters 1-7 are 5K longer than the current draft. This pleases me, as I would like this draft to be brisker/punchier/SHORTER.

Meanwhile, I somehow managed to sprain my lower back this week. Saw the chiropractor this morning, so I should start to feel better soon, but sitting at my desk for long periods of time is rather challenging at the moment...

Los Angeles is finally having summer weather, and I'm not thrilled. After all the June/July gloom, I feel quite disgruntled about actual August weather in August! The Garage Kitty seems to be handling it well, however.

Today I spent some quality time lazing around reading Georgette Heyer (Frederica). Also I watched the Stephen Frears' film of Cheri, which is gorgeous, though it mainly made me want to reread the book. (I've been longing to do a Colette binge reading/rereading.)

Yesterday I finished listening to the text-to-audio files of the Jo book, and this evening I finished writing up notes of What Works and What Really Doesn't. For some reason knowing that I will be hacking large swaths of text from the book fills me with glee. I've also been making notes for the new ending of the book (something else that fills me with glee, because I'd really missed Jo and Martin). Next up: brainstorming/outlining/etc. to figure out some solutions to other issues with the novel.

And tomorrow will be Henna Day!