Happy Alban Hefin/Litha/Summer Solstice

[cornerofmadness]

I knew today was wrong-footed this morning when I reheated my tea and sat there wondering what was taking so long with the microwave. I had put the tea cup in the cupboard....

So to celebrate the change of season's I finally drove out to the Serpent Mound. It's the world's largest earthen work effigy so I SHOULD see if since I live an hour away. I was there once when I was 8. To be honest...I had to say it but I was disappointed. Not in the mound. It's still a very cool thing (pictures later since I'm exhausted) but in 40 years they still know nothing new. I found that disappointing (and that the gift shop was bigger than the museum and it featured plains Indian stuff instead of the Adena/Hopewell/Fort Ancient people of this area). They mentioned doing ground penetrating radar but not what was found. Ah well. Is it bad that I own almost every Native American book they had in that gift shop?

Speaking of books, Mom made me take some crap out of my bedroom at home, 75% of it D&D books then Elfquest and some other stuff which I want to keep so I cleared off a shelf in my living room. I culled at least a dozen books from there to get rid of. I have too many nonfiction books I'm never going to reread and half this stuff is online now or things I don't need to research (ironically my new short story will be featuring the elf I originally got all these books about the dancer Ninjinsky for)


Yesterday went okay. I really like the person we interviewed yesterday, the one I insisted we interview. I liked her better than the one young man who I can tell is going to be offended by every little thing and very political and will probably get on my tits. Here's the problem everyone is gone on vacation and I'm scared all these people will have jobs by the time we bring them up here in 3 weeks. Sigh.