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Rereading The Lies of Locke Lamora is making me want to write the AU where the Pevensie are the best damn thieves in the business and Caspian is a mark who then becomes their newest recruit. Set in a fantasy kingdom, of course.

We are now on version friggin' three of Dust 3; I think I've written, like, seven thousand words for this chapter overall counting the two cut versions. It's all talkyface and exposition; I need some action here! I'll have Peter do something rash; that always works well.

Current crisis of the moment: take two English classes next semester or two history classes? I'd do both, but that puts me over the credit limit by one credit (it wouldn't if I wasn't taking band; that's the one credit. And Japanese is four credits, what the hell, everything else is three). I have to take ENLS200; it's a major requirement. The other English class I'd take would be Intro to Creative Writing, which meets once a week. I'd rather take two history classes, but to do the creative writing concentration I have to have four creative writing classes by senior year. (Which, uh, actually shouldn't be that hard.) I'm definitely taking an honors history class, because I don't have any honors classes yet and if I don't take one this coming semester I'm going to get kicked out of the honors program. *winces* I'll either take the honors class Victorianism or Dante and His World, and then there are a couple other history classes I'm interested in. One is Early Middle Ages and the other one is Temples and Festivals in Ancient Greece. I'm also probably taking a science class called Natural Disasters (I'm going to see if I can do my lab science at CWU this summer), and Japanese 102. And concert band, obviously. Thoughts? Advice? Bedlam, you're crazy?

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ahahahaha, my copies of The Chronicles of Narnia have arrived from home, so I can stop asking y'all stupid questions like, "Is Jewel male?" and "Narnia: far more likely to kill prisoners of war than Archenland? I THINK SO."

Also my ballot, so I can vote. Against the rest of fandom, by the way, and apparently against the rest of the population of New Orleans, but whatever.

*cough* And then I went to the used book sale at the Nadine Vorhoff Library, which is the NCCROW library, and bought three books, then went to the TU bookstore and bought a book about the Persian War with the happy discovery that I can use my Tulane debit card at the bookstore.

Yes, this is probably going to go about as badly as you think. But books. V. important, those. Although I'm completely out of room on my bookshelves now.

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In a moment of outstanding nerdiness, I quote my Greek history textbook quoting Thucydides quoting Pericles:

The sacrifice which they collectively made was individually repaid to them; for they received again each one for himself a praise which grows not old, and the noblest of all sepulchres -- I speak not of that in which their remains are laid, but of that in which they glory survives, and is proclaimed always and on every fitting occasion. For the whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, cut not on stone but in the hearts of men.