Something else that would make me happy is if LiveJournal would add Ilvermorny to the schools directory as I've just asked them to do. I cannot have been the only one to ask. :P
Before I finally go to bed, I thought I'd tell you that I've just read a remarkable story, which all of you will have the opportunity to read during

It sleeted early yesterday morning, but yesterday, I was walking around in shorts; December 2016 has been as crazy as the other months of this year. Shog gave me the early birthday gift of cashmere, and I'd really like to be able to wear it . . . in the snow. Come on, snow!
Shog also sent me a link that I now share in honor of my birthday (and with gratitude that I'm not a chameleon): the bracingly acrobatic way in which a newly birthed chameleon greets the world (or rather, has the world forced upon it). Poor scaly woobie!
Goodnight, m'dears!