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I'm starting to enjoy reading Angela Brazil books not for the story itself but to see what sort of educational tactics she's recommending this time. ( rambling about Brazil books )

In other news, I'm trying to carry a timer around with me, today, so as to remind myself when a half hour goes by and wake up and move on to something else. Thus far it's a limited success, but I'll keep trying.

disappointing.

Quite some time ago I wrote a good chunk of a short story called "The Elephants Discourse on Mangoes." The past few days I thought "Oh, here's my opportunity to use the whole cast of elephant characters that I had worked up, and maybe use that whole conversation in my next chapter of "Swept Away!"

No such luck. I had kind of forgotten that I had a crash a while back and a lot of things got lost. The files exist, but when I open them they are empty. :(

Ah well, no shortcuts for me.