Happy Wednesday! I greet this day with an indecent amount of joy, since I got up at a quarter to four this morning, and wisely opted to go back to bed at seven. While I love the emerging light — it has been one long, dark and miserable winter — the return of dawn is messing up my sleeping habits. I actually got used to the sun rising at a quarter to nine!
I’m at the phase where I can only sleep four hours at a time. This is something that’s only ever happened to me here in Scotland. Can’t figure it out, but at least today I actually managed to go back to sleep for three hours.
The real reason for my glee is that there’s much good writing going on. In fact, the inestimable author of Monster Blood Tattoo and Lamplighter reports a finish on the first draft of the third tome of magnificence. Callooh! Callay!
The weekly Poetry Stretch, which is the provenance of the Poetry Princess at The Miss Rumphius Effect, has made me a wee bit envious. Living here in the UK as I do most of the time (except for those happy four week visits to sunny California), I realize I’m in a culture and place where people are much more in touch with dead languages — my friend Gem says most British people know a bit, despite the fact that she didn’t take it in school either. My high school didn’t even offer it as an option, aiming instead for the traditional trio of Spanish, German, and French — so I really love the Latin poem I’ve found. I might try my hand at the macaronic verse form… especially as I am… nine and nine-tenths done with my novel. Yay for me! A final read-through today and we’ll see! Thank GOD. It’s been a looong haul this winter for sure.
Also, I have been contacted very nicely by the people at the Junior Library Guild, who will be including a review of MARE’S WAR and a microscopic (the best kind) picture of me in their Spring catalog. I am very pleased!
The crocuses are suddenly visible, and there are daffodil shoots in the park at last. What good things are going on with you?
I wish you luck in getting good, good sleep, Tanita.
Congrats on the catalog news!
what nice news!
and it is nice for you to have croci (I took Latin 🙂 ) and snow drops and stuff. We are still in the frozen stage of things.
Oooh, what good news about the Junior Literary Guild!
I read somewhere that people used to sleep until midnight, and then get up for awhile, and then go back to sleep. The break was expected. I wish I could remember where I saw this…and somehow, I think it’s connected to a discussion of Hamlet.
Hmmm. Or maybe my brain is doing sleep tricks on me.