truepenny | our love is all of god's money (Reply)

1. Apparently, the soundtrack for the end of this book is Norah Jones' cover of Wilco's "Jesus Etc." (YouTube clip here, for those who are curious.) No, I have no idea why. Of course, I didn't know why Cry Cry Cry's cover of "Cold Missouri Waters" was the soundtrack for the end of Corambis, either, until well after the fact. So maybe this will make sense in six months or so.

2. Cut 2,000 words of wrongness from the draft today. Which hurt, since it puts me back at 95k again, but those words were going to have to come out sooner or later, and it might as well be sooner.

3. This towel-kneading thing must be working, because my feet hate it.

4. Bullock's biography of Hitler is, in fact, excellent, although there are bits where I know more than he does because he was writing in 1962. This is not his fault.

5. Egyptian archaeologists working in Alexandria have found a temple to Bastet, built by Queen Berenike II (fl. 246-221 B.C.). [link found via