Hey, Beverly...regarding all that research, uh...

You got a bibliography? I, uh...could use some of those materials.

Alternately, if you could just download said contents directly into mine brainpan, that'd be super-awesome-cool.

I had a serious Arthur obsession in my youth, inspired, I suspect, by Rosemary Sutcliff. She's certainly behind the Roman Britain obsession I had in my teens. My first long trip to Great Britain was with a friend who was still obsessed, so we visited every piece of real estate remotely related to Arthur. I merely insisted on seeing Hadrian's Wall. I've forgotten most of what I knew about the Arthurian legends, although I was in conversation recently in which someone said "Lancelot did X" and my mind immediately said, "No, that was Perceval." I guess it's still in there somewhere.

Yay new-hair-of-Tep!!

re: white stag - I immediately go to a "white deer" place, and from there to Virginia Dare and Roanoke. To each their own history, I guess.

MM, I'll try and put together a list of what I have here. It may be days, you understand, and I'm not going into the depths of the creepy storage unit to look for and unpack boxes. Just what's on the shelves. And...the floor around the shelves. And under the bed. And maybe in the back of the closet.

I read a lot of fiction set in my period, too, and compared details by different authors, sorting out the commonalities and researching those. It was a way to winnow stuff down. There was one invaluable one called "How to Write an Historical Novel." I don't remember what-all I got out of it, but one thing does stand out as representative: Don't have your protagonist hear carriage wheels on the cobbled street of a medieval walled town. Stuff like that. Any Pagan Book of Days will help you get the agriculturally-based seasons and the Christian holidays that followed the pagan cycle, help you pace your timeline.

Oy. Wrong thread, right? I'll make a list.

Oy. Wrong thread, right?

Anybody gives you any shit, you send 'em to me. I'll take care of 'em.

And thanks!

MM, next time on of your FCOtD calls for a W2, tell him to download a Form 4852 from irs.gov. It's what they can send in place of the W2 as long as they know what their total wages and state and federal taxes were. I had to do that with one of mine. I requested a reissue and still didn't get it. From a government agency, no less.

MM, next time on of your FCOtD calls for a W2, tell him to download a Form 4852 from irs.gov.

That's been suggested, but often they don't know what their total wages and taxes were. And we're not allowed to tell them over the phone. We tell them to look at their last 2007 paystub, but they've often lost those as well.

*sigh* People are like monkeys, but with more power and less sense.

I just printed off 5000 SAT vocab words!

All these years later, I wonder what I would have gotten on the SAT had I taken it. I got such a shit score on the PSAT that it scared me away from taking the SAT, so I just took the ACT. But now, I want to take the SAT!

Ooh, stripey Teppy - how fun!

Aims, I'm so sorry to hear the news about your sister. How heartbreaking to have had your hopes raised and dashed in such quick succession.

Need pictures of stripey Teppy.