Miscellanea

I'm now able to read Bulgarian with nary a look at the alpahabet chart, and I did the first lesson today, feeling very silly while repeating after the CD. But I already know that I like it a *lot* more than Turkish.

After I'd done my duty, i.e. learning Bulgarian, I started on the picture that has been insistently popping up in my mind, i.e. a raven perched on a red leather boot. It's coming along nicely, and unless I completely botch it, I'm going to post it once it's finished.

Finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice yesterday, and started with Sense and Sensibility. The book -- Jane Austen omnibus, i.e. *brick* -- is a bit unwieldy, but Cornelius makes an excellent book support, if he happens to lie in my lap.

BTW: both boyz are pretty in pink:




The enormous dark mass in the foreground is Cornelius's fat arse (I'm one to talk...)

Now that the Big Reveal is up, I may freely confess that I've written Sentimental Education and Luncheon on the Grass for the sshg_exchange . I loved my prompts and was very happy to get so many wonderful reviews, an experience that won't be repeated once I put both fics up at ff.net, where reviews are always scarce.

For the time being, no plot bunnies seem to be lurking anywhere. shiv5468 , to whom many, many thanks, gave the all-clear for the Lumione exchange fic, so it will be sent off soon-ish.

And, last but not least, it's a good thing that I haven't any plans involving human contact for this weekend, because there's finally new garlic available, and I bought lots of it. Yesterday, there was pasta with feta, tomatoes and garlic for dinner, and today I had guacamole (my very own variety, with lots of garlic) for lunch. I'll have to stop the garlic orgy before dinner tomorrow, so there won't be any lingering aromatic traces on Monday. I heard that Ankara was being mentioned in the Transylvanian Aeronautic Forecast as an area to be strictly avoided by long-distance-flying vampires...