One paper to go, but I keep wasting time on wedding websites. Leaving tomorrow for the Annual Birthday Luncheon with the Rochester branch of JASNA--I'm the guest speaker, giving a shortened version of my thesis, which I will prepare in the car on the way there. Prayers for safe travel and a comprehensible lecture appreciated.

Oh, LiveJournal.

Oh, Mad World.

...

It's like I'm back where I started.

Sort of.

My paper about Andrew Jackson and dance was quite well-received, though it will require some editing before I turn in a final copy. I would gladly have submitted precisely what I prepared as the draft, but I'm sure the professor will expect some changes.

Now, I've launched into my fictional piece for Consumerism. I'm enjoying it thoroughly. Now that I've tweaked the characters and their personalities, their dialogue is writing itself. My protagonist is Edith Forrester, a married woman of means who takes great pleasure in rearranging her home and promoting a variety of charitable causes. Still beautiful and sophisticated at forty, she excels in the social world despite a somewhat forthright manner and modern ideas of a woman's role. Edith is supremely organized and motivated, whereas her husband James has a more relaxed demeanor. Content to stay at home if he could, James is also practical, reflective, and humorous. Perhaps his worst flaw is his affectionate indulgence of his wife's interference and micromanaging, even though he recognizes a problem. Think, if a more interesting Edmund Bertram married Emma Woodhouse.

Anyway! Must get back to that.