Finished my /Idunna/ Contribution, Yay

Phew, my Idunna 81 contributions are now safely in, h'ray.

First, is a poem I posted to LJ awhile ago called "The Long Road". dpaxson gave it the polish I'd begged for when I wrote it and drew a picture to go with it.

A poem! Mine! Was worth a picture! For me! *!swoons with glee!*

Then, I have another essay in this one, which I have just now finished: it's called "The Well and the Web", and Yr Humble Servant has attempted to draw connections between the three Wells of Norse cosmology (with which my target audience should be summat familiar) and the Internet (with which my target audience is not expected to be more than cursorily familiar).

For that, I taught myself a new Adobe InDesign trick involving text displayed on pretty little gradients to go under my babble...text sufficiently occulted from its sources that dr_beowulf ought to offer a price for its decryption.

Of course, in the morning I shall become convinced that the whole back quarter leaves me too vulnerable and ought to be replaced with something tamer, or that we should call the whole thing off. dpaxson likely won't let me. 8-)

Idunna is on track to go to the printers this Wednesday, and be in the mail to you, Gentle Readers, by the end of the month.

-- Lorrie

The BIRTHDAY Approacheth: 03 October 2009, Sea Salt, Berkeley

Yes, as last year, I'll be having a birthday dinner at Sea Salt, the sustainable seafood restaurant at Dwight and San Pablo on my birthday, 03 October 2009. The details are just like last year, except as this will be on a Saturday instead of a Friday, there will be no roast suckling pig (darnit!).

There are vegetarian options, and non-seafood options, and nothing our merry band ate there last year disappointed. What there aren't are inexpensive options, although there is a tasting menu (I love me my prix fixe). countgeiger and I might be able to help folks who really ought to be there but are a little strapped for cash just now.

dpaxson is already Otherwise Engaged, so I might just have to up and have two birthday dinners. *holds hand to forehead and slumps to her fainting couch* As last year, we may set up an alternate thingy at Fenton's on another night. I'll keep y'all posted.

Please RSVP to either this invitiation or, preferably, the FB invite (it tracks better) that I'll have up shortly.

Hope to see some of you there!

-- Lorrie