The voice of springtime

Weird a*s thought of the day: "I wonder if Marie Laveau's tomb got drowned?"

So of course I had to go find out. Second to the last vignette here:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050907/ap_on_re_us/katrina_vignettes_ready1

Same story, with pictures. Last picture in the sequence. Some of these are heartbreaking, so your choice:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05250/566866.stm

Argh! of the day: Somehow between last night and this afternoon, the ms. for Night Warrior got corrupted. Or maybe it was all along. I had to reimpose Normal on the whole document, then go back and reset my chapter headings and section dividers. It didn't take too long, but it was a pain in the booty. And the reason I think the ms. may have been corrupted for awhile is because although I wrote new text, after I'd fixed it, I got the same word count as yesterday (SMF). At least I hope cleaning out the corruption is responsible for that. I shudder to think I've lost text. I've got hardcopies of everything and multiple e-copies, so hopefully I'm covered.

Quote of the day:

"If the sparrow knew that nothing lasted forever, would it still sing?"

—Alice Hoffman, Second Nature