the night they drove old dixie down

so...i've moved several hundred songs this evening...sitting in the gopher the way i do every other Saturday night, d&d to the west, werewolves to the east, and me in the middle with my trusty netbook.

Feels more like mid-September than the first of August. Students are coming back...the new semester is looming. Getting ready to start my 36th year in a college town (actually 35 because of the year I spent in Coulterville). Still, August is the time of year for new beginnings. I asked Ria if she was going to re-invent herself for 7th grade...she is way too cute to be emo, but she wants to be all gothy and hang with the vampires...i can only encourage it. I may have to go to Hot Topic and get her the Twilight sweatshirt and a copy of Wuthering Heights (the librarian said it was too complex and that she wouldn't like it, but Ria says that she is a complex person and should be able to read what she wants to). She also says @Neilhimself (Gaiman) is awesome.

Mark is basically repeating freshman year...he's smart but he hates school. Personally, I think Papa Teece ought to home school him. He'd still have social outlets because of the store and living in a small town. He'd learn a lot more than he will learn at Heritage High School. It's not up to me, though. TC would have to be willing and Mark would have to cooperate.

Still trying to finish Palimsest. I don't know why it has been so hard to read. It is fascinating, the idea of a magic land that can only be reached by sex between two people who are each infected with a map.