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Good morning!

I've done nothing remarkably interesting in the last week (if you don't count locking myself in a bathroom with a half gallon of ice cream and my laptop...and quitting my job). Well, I have been jogging, which in its own right can be fun, and writing. This is basically a continuation of last week's blog.

Before I go on:

Monday,
Saturday,
Sunday...

We haven't heard from the three of you; and that's quite a large gap in the posting days. What is going on? Email us please, if you would like to give up your days, we don't want to boot you out without your knowledge.

What decade would you return to and why?
1820, despite the gross lack of women's rights in America and the lack of Civil Rights as well for that matter, this was the last decade of true peace (or so Historians say). It's, I think, the idea that the world wasn't mapped completely nor connected completely that allows my imagination to jump on the idea. I like the thought of writing letters, horses as car power, and slow moving news (I hate the media today, it isn't thorough at all).

I recently read an article written by a Christian author, it was printed in an American newspaper and made me gag (not that religion makes me, gag, mind you). It was on atheists (as a whole) and how completely bothersome they are, how rude, how boring, and how anti-religious they all seem to be. It just made me wonder how anyone in this day and age could still be so close-minded and bigited (she was practically calling for persecution against Atheists...bah). Another thought, how does something like that get printed? Free speech is wonderful, but the editors should know that they could lose quite a bit of business.

Who is your favorite fictional characters and why?
While I am not impressed by the Harry Potter series as a whole, there were several characters I took delight in reading. Severus Snape, for example, has been one of my favorite literary characters since I was in fourth grade; and not because of the tortured soul persona, mind you. He's the perfect example of how a secondary character can be made dynamic instead of static...(and I must admit, until the sixth book, most of his appearances insued in humor: even if he himself was not a funny man). Minerva McGonagall is another, for the very same reasons.

Childermass from Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell was another favorite. He had the potential to be a Severus Snape, but his wit and humor and the circumstances gave him the advantage of having a...well.... sense of humor (no matter how dark) and more freedom in his choice of activities. He was the only character in the book, I decided, who had any inkling of what was going to happen before it happened and acted accordingly. He was also a secondary character and dynamic (I seriously must get bored with the protagonists...the book was over a thousand pages...).

Until next week,

Tuesday's Child.