Meaghan’s Blog

 . . . feels like any ordinary day. To me, anyway. In fact, I quite forgot it was 2008. Best wishes to everybody for the new year.

You have no idea how many times I've forgotten to mention something related to the months in my story. You see, one day in November (possibly October) I was flipping through a dictionary in search of a word, when one caught my eye in particular. I flipped back to the page in horror. No! One of the months I thought I had created on my own was actually . . . a grassland? As it turns out, Lea means just that: a grassland. It can be pronounced two ways, like lay or lee. Personally, I don't mind sticking with it; plenty of things, months included, are named after something or share a word that means something completely different. I'm just fine with having a grassland as a month.

Other story news is I now have another two chapters waiting on a flashdrive to be put on the computer, refined a little, then posted on here! Yay! I still have much to write and I haven't been reading the dictionary as of late, but I'm trying to make an effort. I'm reading Pride & Prejudice yet again, because I read another book and it messed me up quite a bit - I could feel my vocabulary shrinking away as I read through it. I only continued on reading it because I don't like leaving a book part-way through, no matter how dumb or detestful it is - not that I'm saying the book was dumb or detestful, but I did not much enjoy it.

The other night  - Sunday, I believe - we (our family) watched Persuasion on TV. I thought it was . . . interesting. Let's leave it at that. I bought my father the book for Christmas but I haven't read it yet. Last night I watched the Pride & Prejudice movie - not the made-for-TV one, though we own that one too - and I noticed how they messed up the talking in it a great deal of the time, using too many contractions or whatever people call them; we watched Sense & Sensibility, which I bought Dad I think last Christmas . . . anyway, I thought it was good but very long, and Dad also got the book this Christmas from Sarah, so now I think I'll read it when I finish the book I'm reading. Then, since Sarah said she wanted to watch something with guns in it, we watched Ultraviolet. I didn't think it made much sense and it was sort of one fight scene after another. Ah well.