"The Bells are Ringing for Me and My Gal..."

I cut flowers! Forsythia and weeping cherry and the funny one behind my window that I don't know the sort of, and daffodils and crabapple and not lilac because I don't know how properly to smash the stems. I like flowers.

There ought to be fireflies soon! I can't wait!

And I ran about in the grass and the violets and rolled down the hill on my side with my hands up over my hand, and got grass in my hair.

*wiggles toes blissfully*

"And Learn to Live the Unexamined Life..."

So! Gabriel, it turns out, is Romanian. He left when he was eighteen, because of the communists, he says. "They were shooting, and I did not like it, so I came here". He's a grandfather, but you'd never guess it. Very nice man. A leetle too much like Pencroff, however.

Jennie and I managed to bean the new doctor while playing ball. >_> She forgave me, though.

Waen made me a beautiful tiny little fish out of bread dough and baked it for me! It was so beautiful. And adorable. I really hated to eat it. I like my food personificated, but then--this is why I could never eat animal crackers. However, I overcame my qualms and bit off its tail, and thus emboldened was able to devour the poor creature.

To-morrow so much to do! Dentist appointment, among other things. V. upsetting. Last time to dentist not at all worried, but last time, of course, had not a) watch Little Shop of Horrors and b) discussed in detail with Anna dentistry in the early part of the century. Most disconcerting.

"They Always Try to Teach the Wrong Lesson..."

Oh, and I bought a blanket! All by accident.

I met Shirley's daughter Karen at work to-day, and she was sitting in the activity room crocheting, and I admired her work enthusiastically, whereupon she promised me that she would save the one she was working on especially for me. She's only taking ten dollars for it, too, which is so kind of her because I can't imagine how much she must sell them for normally. She said a lady paid her forty dollars for one just the other day. But mine is pink and purple and cream-coloured, with a big patch in the middle of multi-coloured pastels. It's absolutely beautiful, and I'm so excited.

Pretty things make me so happy, and touchable things, too. I still love my moon-snails blanket that I got for Christmas. And Mum bought golden leaf-patterned cloth and little white flower buttons at Ben Franklin's (because it's going out of business) to make me a dress with, a spring dress, and I think it will be the most beautiful dress imaginable.

...In a very short time, I shall wear nothing but dresses. This is a startling but entirely possible thing.

Who will give me a hug? O! Who will give Soujin a hug?