I've been wanting to update my sidebar with blog links for a while, so I finally did. I wanted to add Wes G. to my "Friends & Acquaintances" section, but it seems your blog, Wes, is no longer there...? If you still have a blog, post it to me in a comment, and I'll add it to my links.

Anyway, it is a lovely Saturday. Magda and I plan to go contra dancing later, because a group in the area is having one of its rare Saturday evening dances. Normally they're all on Sunday night, which precludes anyone in my family from going. I'm lookin' forward to it, because I haven't done any sort of dancing for what seems like a very long time.

For anyone who doesn't know about contra dancing, it is a mix of country line dancing and square dancing. I quite enjoy it, though it can get a bit old after you've done it numerous times, and you realize it's the same ten movements over and over again in various combinations. Still, when everyone gets it right, you feel as though you are a part of something lovely.

That's in the evening. I'm about to go swimming, and I have to write a difficult review of a Chinese history course from The Teaching Company. I was supposed to be watching it all summer, but I only got through the first quarter of it. I didn't have the 24 hours to spare to watch the entire thing. I have sufficient material on which to write, however, so long as I read the transcript booklets, because I hardly suspect the staid prof is going to go crazy in the last DVD.

Also this afternoon, I plan to write some more Erthe. I haven't written more of Susan's story since last Thursday, but that's excusable, because I've been a little busy. I only just realized that I haven't posted on here about my demonstration in TKD class on Monday that earned me the next step between 1st and 2nd Dan black belt! I shall have to describe that. :) Besides that, I've just been... busy... all week, but in a peaceful, satisfying sort of way, not frenetically.

Tomorrow after church, I'm going to be hanging out with my good friend Deborah Knickelbein, who has been researching in Kansas City for the story she's writing. We don't know exactly what we're gonna do, but I'm sure we'll find something. It's stinkin' hot outside, which may put a crimp on our/my plans to go to the St. Louis zoo, but there are always indoor options. Coldstone Creamery is a must, for one.

Monday, I pack. I'm sure that will be a nice blog post in itself, all my Monday preparations. And then Tuesday, I set off driving east. Wow. So this is what's up with me. I wish I had profound philosophical thoughts, but I don't. At least not for this post.  ¶ 9:16 AM