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• I've been looking for this damn thing for years - another poem my friends and I used to recite all the time. I think my friends and I needed help.
  
  Oh woman,
  When I see your wild shock of hair cascading over the pillow,
  And I hear the soft seesaw hum of your sleeping,
  I wonder
  Who you really are
  And who I really am
  And... what happened last night after I blacked out?
  
  
• Reading Passages. Boy, snarkhunter, you weren't kidding, were you?
  
  
• I'm almost done writing Promises, I think - now it's just down to editing. It's coming out to 7 chapters, but I'm busily slashing and burning (not that kind of slashing, sorry), so it may end up 6. Never thought that would be the equivalent of a "short" novel, for me.
  
  
• I found my Harry Potter book! Yay! I thought I'd lost it, but it was just under my bed. Which is good, cause I'd like to finish it so I can pick up the new book and find out who dies in it. For the love of all that is holy, please, anybody who gets it in the next little while, don't give that away!
  
  
• We have to go to the cottage this weekend. I swear I don't understand cottages - why people get them, and more importanly, why the people who get them get so damn aggressiveabout making sure that everybody comes to visit their cottage. It's like that ep on Seinfeld where one of the gang's friends have a baby, and they talk about how weird it is that everybody with a baby gets pushy about it - "Elaine, you gotta see the Baby!"
  
  Anyway. So, I do not want to go to the cottage this weekend - I deeply hate it, as it's a very nice cottage but has no computer, no toys for the kids, and a porch with a forty-foot drop and no fence - but the kids love it and every year I have to take them out there. It's like a torture for me - a torture accompanied with a soundtrack of "Just beautiful out here, isn't it?" and "Isn't in great to get out of the city?" which I am supposed to smile and nod to. And this morning my mom called to tell me that she really didn't think two days was enough time to spend at the cottage - surely I could come for more time. Especially once Chris is on vacation and the cottage is the perfect place to be.
  
  Right.