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Oh, I've had such a lovely day, and I'm so sleepy that the wrongest of words are all tumbling about arbitrarily in my head and out of my fingers, but I feel emotionally refreshed. I've spent lots of the day romping with several of my chums; we mucked about at the Goodwill and played a 1980s edition of Trivial Pursuit and gabbed and went to a barbecue and bonfire and I watched red-gold sparks burning through the sky as through a great skein of cobalt silk. And I discovered quite by accident, because we were playing Trivial Pursuit and Victoria burst out with "curse your sudden yet inevitable betrayal!" and I shouted excitedly, "You watch Firefly! I love you!" -- and so that was how I discovered that in recent months they have all been falling in love with Firefly and somehow neglecting to mention this altogether, the twits! But now I've got at least two people who might lend me Serenity, and, astonishingly, a whole lot of people who will understand my nerdy jokes. (I know, it's been, what, two weeks? And yet the nerdy jokes and conspiracy theories are already cropping up like dandelions.)

oh I'm ever so sleepy; if it weren't for this useful spell-checking thingummy you wouldn't be able to read this post at all I'm sure. at any rate there are already far too few commas.

and I shall reply to more of your comments eventually; I appreciate them all so very, very, very much and you lot are marvellous, really.