and with all my heart I turn around

[lotesse]

So it finally stopped raining today, and all of a sudden I think it's maybe going to be May in my heart. April really was the cruelest month this year, but I have high hopes for May. I spent the afternoon outside picking violets & rereading Lloyd Alexander's The Foundling and other Stories - I'd forgotten just how easy I am for "The True Enchanter," and somehow Fflewddur just gets cuter the closer I get to his age, though I sometimes feel that that oughtn't to be so.

I've been doing a metric fuckton of writing. Multiple Prydain projects - they're breeding! - but also an OT Star Wars/Firefly fusion. Unfortunately, my Boy is drafting the climax of his novel, which I do edit, and all the lovely affect is making my ficbrain vibrate with interest. Note to self: writing fanfiction of an unpublished text possibly not most productive idea ever.

I finished my grading yesterday, and so far only one of my kids has emailed me complaining about his grade - here's hoping that luck holds. I tell them to email me, because I hate the idea of them going home for the summer confused or bummed, and just grading them and turning them loose somehow doesn't seem properly nurturing - but at the same time I do rather dread those emails!

have a random link: Hungover Owls

Comments

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

Hooray for Prydain! "The True Enchanter" will always be lovely but I think Fflewddur Fflam has become my favorite character so gradually that I didn't realize it.

The hungover owl makes me laugh.

[princessofgeeks]

I only had two whining, Mrs. Princess, why did I get an F????? so i felt like i got off easy.

[lotesse]

poor dear Flewddur. I'm writing post-canon just now, and feeling miserable that he's not around and I don't get him. I'm seriously considering sending him rowing back - I've never understood why he was packed off to the Summer Country at the end, for he's no proper sort of mythical figure like the others, and belongs with Taran, Eilonwy and company far more than he does with the Sons of Don.

[lotesse]

Luckily, my "F" student hasn't even really tried once this semester, so I don't expect to be hearing from him. SO infinitely not my fault!

[rhivolution]

Oh, why do I not have my Prydain books with me? [sigh]