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Alida: A 23-year-old Canadian exploring the infinite abyss that is New York City.

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I should be in bed. But I think I had too much coke at Denny's.

Yeah, I had a Denny's night. I spent a really good 2 1/2 hours editing my novel... I got a lot done. More than I expected, actually. I got a good chance to work in a lot of the suggestions that Laurel and I have discussed in the past couple of weeks.

It's been really good reading the book out loud to her... in some ways, it's better than just getting someone to read it. She's been giving me some really good feedback, and I can get it as the story goes, not all in one marked-up manuscript or something like that. And she's giving some really good feedback--she has a really good feeling for plot, characters, plausibility, and the feeling of a missions trip (which is where the novel is set). It's really making things easier for me--it's hard to start seeing those things in your own work. It's hard to understand what needs to come out and what needs to change.

Anyways. I'm going to bed. We don't leave at 6:00 tomorrow, but it's still fairly early. 'Night.

One year ago today: It's not that I'm not so "innocent" anymore, or that I've become so embittered that I feel like that was just a place where I was idealistic and young, and now I "know better." If anything, it's the fact that I've seen so much more of God in these past few months, and have experienced so much more goodness, not sadness, that I feel like I was innocent for expecting so little. The sense of wonder was so great, after such a dry time. I was so thirsty that I just soaked in any evidence of God's presence and his hand working.
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