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

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Uncle Richard, me, and James Earl Jones - Tuesday, Apr. 04, 2006
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My gosh. I can't believe it's the end of July. Time just seems to fly faster every year.

I went out for coffee with Kat and Jakob today... I can't believe how far things have come in the past few years. I mean, there's just something about watching her with her baby that seems too surreal.

When we were in London, we met up with Bob and Jean, some friends of the family. They knew my parents way back when, and they had the kind of relationship with my parents as I have with Kat, particularly after I was born.

It's strange to think of.

Of course, it took Bob and Jean another 15 years to have kids after I was born. Let's just hope I don't maintain those similarities!

I'm back on the NaNo boards. There's not as much activity over there this time of year, but I'm doing my bit to add to it, and hopefullyl I'll stay this much of a geek until November, when I can justifiably be on there day after day. I'm doing pretty well at making up for lost time, though.

One year ago today: The first novel that Madeleine L'Engle wrote was The Small Rain, which she wrote when she was in the 20's. The sequel, A Severed Wasp, was written at least 40 years later, and it's set at least 40 or 50 years after the first one. It uses flashbacks and so on to fill in what happened between the books, and the main character is in her 70's. She said that she couldn't have written the sequel until she had lived enough life to know what she was writing about... I don't even know if she ever intended to write a sequel. But she did. And the way it's written is really something special.
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