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September 2
Oh, hooray for September! I love fall. I love all the seasons, but I think I love fall the best. I know it's not really fall yet, but it's that month and school starts the day after tomorrow. The weather has been beautifully cool today and the acorns are forming on the trees. They're little and gold tinged with red now, like apples. Yesterday as I was going through my school stuff from last year to see what could be salvaged, I found a list I wrote of things I wanted to do this summer. It reads:
Goddess site Well, I don't even remember what I meant by "goddess site" now. I have so many cool ideas for websites that I never get half of them started, and the ones I do start rarely get finished. I either realize it was a bad idea in the first place or I start working on something else. I started reading the Edith Hamilton I got from my birthday, but I didn't get to the section on Norse myth. I did learn to drive and I did learn to ride the bike in the shop. I had never learned to use hand brakes because I was always too short for that bike, and I was determined to learn to ride it this summer. Well, I did learn to use the brakes, but I'm still to short to touch the ground and I fall off whenever I do brake. So the bike is of limited use until I grow anther two inches or so. And that won't happen for a while, if ever. I haven't touched the garden because around June I realized all the plants I wanted should have been planted already or weren't in stores anymore. So I'll have to wait until next spring to do that, and by then I'll only have one and a half years left in this house. I did not finish the Persephone site; all I've accomplished on that is a very slow-loading front page. (Although it's very cool looking.) By "June calendar" I assume I meant to figure out what color June's background was going to be and look up the coding and do the title image and all that. "So, Julia, what have you accomplished this summer?" you ask. Well, I'll tell you. I have kept this journal going for six months as of yesterday. I learned to play the penny whistle (sort of.) I learned to change diapers. I learned how to clean records with that cool little red velvet thing we've had for years. I taught Christine to waltz (sort of.) I have more freckles and my hair is a little longer. I finished a petticoat and the drawers for the 1880's dress I'm making for Christine. I learned to code stylesheets. I learned to do I volunteered a lot at Meadow Farm. I learned to play Graces. I learned to do laundry as it was in 1860. I finished most of the quilt I started last fall. I did most of a website on Ellara (you can see it when it's done.) I've started learning to read the Tarot cards and am actually keeping at it - I've learned seven in the last six nights. I visited three colleges. I learned to work a yo-yo. I'm proud.
Feeling: pleased Wearing: a rather dilapidated shirt I've had since the fourth grade Song in my head: some hymn my mother was humming Word for today: tirade Reading: Moby Dick. It looks like they won't get to the actual whale until the last three chapters, which is disheartening. But I got a whole lot done yesterday and I should have it done by tomorrow afternoon. Link for today: My friend Danny's online journal Picture for today: I just finished changing the colors on this one to put on the Ellara site. Doesn't this look better than the old one? I couldn't bear to use it with that greenish cast to it. Highlight of my day: listing all the things I did over the summer September 7 
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