dearest ixxz,
not to worry at all about your busyness, UTTERLY understood - I think we both know the woes of deadlines! i am feeling rebellious, myself. i am starting to get under the weather with the feeling that i am not quite writing what i want to be writing. goodness knows, what i want to be writing would probably be some tawdry novel about the very close friendship of british naval officers, but i mean, academically. i am ready to beat my little fists against the wall of being unable to make myself understandable and persuasive. oh well! anyway. these dark days are annoying me, too - must the sun go down so early? i imagine you, come 3.30 in the afternoons, stressing over your writing and seeing that the darkness is coming and going "oh my gosh, is it already 3.30!!?!?!" but hopefully by now it is all done and dusted? if not, big hugs. remind me when or if you are going home this christmas. i am staying on here, but jaunting off on Jan 4, what ho!
anyway it was good to run into you the other day, and if the boots fit, flaunt them! plain and practical as they may be (but i bet they're not, for all your disclaimers of innocence!)
xoxoxox love
sashy