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I had intended to write 800 words with very short (almost minimalist) reviews. Instead it turned into a 2600 word essay. And only two bad jokes in the whole thing. Oops.

I'm one book short of where I wanted to be at the close of today, and two articles short. Still, I wrote 1800 extra words on the one I did complete. I could have written something much shorter and more pedestrian and have less unfinished.

I'm stopping now. I blame the 3 cm ant that just tried to walk over my foot, but the truth is that it's a rarely comfortable night and I plan to catch up on some sleep.

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An email in my inbox just now read "Ladies Garden Party. ACT Mikveh ready for use." Alas, the two items turned out not to be related, but one after the other in a newsletter, and the email client had simply compressed the headings. But, if they were, I would go to that garden party and return ritually pure, simply because I could.

I shall keep the garden party/ mikveh combination in mind for worldbuilding. It would work very nicely in a novel, I think.