"With Love as Your Sword..."

*faints*

I. LOSE.

Happy belated birthday, sarcastic_kitty! ^_______^ *opens lots of packets of confetti, because it's the loveliest thing...!* I'm dreadfully, dreadfully, morbidly sorry I missed it, but--oh! I hope it was lovely, trulio I do.

*pounces and loveson* And be well, and eee. And ask for a drabble, you deserve one.

"It's a Long Way..."

Mmm. To-day went by quickly.

*curls up*

To-morrow, Waen and Mum will let me come along to their coffee shop. I've never been before, ever, and I asked Waen's permission before I dared. But she said it was all right, she did, and I'm terribly excited. She says it's the most wonderful place, and they're always talking about it. They've gone for months and months, but always I am too embarrassed about my diet to come along, but now--I'm South Beaching it instead of WW, so my free day is different, so I can come after all. ^__^

And, er, I'm awfully excited.

Glad to be back at working at the library! ^____^ Oh, yes. I love the library. Although since school's begun again, it means there's practically no one until three-thirty, and then the place just floods. But that's quite all right, really.

Lots to read, I have. And lots to write, and think about, and...

Slowly, slowly. ^_^

I love so much. So many things make me happy, make me just want to--something with joy, I don't know. When I get off work and see Mum waiting, for one thing. I love her. She's so familiar and good and we get on so well that just seeing she's come for me makes me unbelievably happy. And coloured things, and flowers. And being between the shelves at the library. And the way I feel so overjoyed when I come downstairs in the morning and there's a postcard or a letter for me, just because it's there, sometimes I don't even open it for days, I'm too happy with the envelope and the way the person wrote the address. And I love my room, and waking up in the morning with scarves all around me, and the way I can't see he door, but I can see the window, and the fan makes my dream catcher and my wooden set of chimes knock against one another. And how you can't see the street because of the pine trees. And how good it is to see that people have posted on my flist, people I'm looking for, people whose posts I want especially to read... or to be able to talk to someone. And trains! And Miss Kylee! And the smell of being in a library with so many books... and some people's usernames. And autumn.

And the dark.

And being able to name exactly what's in all the boxes in my room--dried flowers in this one, kronur in that one, stamps, pretty coloured bits, beads, marbles, silk, wrapping paper samples, stickers, ribbons, a chocolate Anna gave me a year ago that I revere too much ever to eat, the thingamajigs Nanni sent me. ^_^ The origami Waen's made for me.

Just so many things. So many things are wonderful, it makes me happy.

We're going to the Juniata Fair on Sunday. It's very bright and very loud and very fun. There are big barns full of flower arrangements to be judged, and produce for judging, also, and quilts, and baked things, and paintings; and there are barns full of cows and goats and kindu and chickens and pigs and rabbits and horses...! and the tractor section, that Waen and I always climb on, every year, and they're so big...! And also rides, just like at an amusement park, which Soujin never goes to, but this is better, because it's small and the same things every year, and you go up so high in some of them and can see above the trees just like standing on the roof of the studio. We go every year, and I like it so much. We used to go with Grandma, always, but now it's just us, although Taira came with us two years. ^_____^

And, er, I'm getting even ramblier than usual.

To-day went by quick.

Bed!