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I woke this morning with a nasty headache, bad enough that I took medication and asked Cordelia if she'd be okay if I went back to bed. She assured me that she'd be fine, and really, I don't do anything in the mornings except hang out in the living room while she gets ready. This is, however, the first time she's gone it alone. As far as I can tell, she got off to school fine. Her viola isn't here, so she remembered that (not that I ever need to remind her). When I finally got up, about three hours later, I still had a headache but not nearly as bad. I took Tylenol which helped kick the headache to the curb, and I feel decent now. I have no idea why a headache now. Usually, when I wake up with a headache, it means my period is starting, but that just ended, so it can't be that.

We used most of the leftover turkey last night to make soup. Scott wanted it to supplement the turkey turnovers, so we did that, but I felt like a bowl of soup and a turkey turnover was too much food. I guess, for Scott who tends to eat three turkey turnovers for dinner, the soup really was just a supplement. I think, though, that we'll still need to cook on Thursday, and I'm not sure we've got anything cookable. I didn't ask Scott to get any meat this week because of the leftover turkey, and I forgot to have him pick up potstickers (our go to meal for when we don't have a lot of time to cook and don't have any leftovers) either.

I have a nasty little lump on my back. ( Cut for TMI and gross details )

I still need to bake bread today. Fortunately, that doesn't take a lot of time or effort. The most difficult part of it will be cleaning out the pan. I've got that soaking now. I'll give it fifteen to twenty minutes and hope that's long enough for the paddles to come loose. I'd like to get the bread in by 2:00, so that the bread has time to cool before we put it away tonight. It takes three hours and forty five minutes for the bread machine to run its basic cycle.

I finally got around to posting "How Old My Heart" on fanfiction.net. Cordelia came over just after I'd finished. She wasn't curious about the story, but she did recognize the site.

Cordelia's been demanding that I come up with things for her to read and then rejecting everything I suggest. I did suggest that she go and browse our shelves for herself, but she didn't want to do that, either. She says the basement is too scary. Me offering to go down there with her didn't help in the least. It's a pity. I think she'd enjoy some of the books we have down there (or up here for that matter). She says, though, that our books are 'too old.' She wants new books, books like Divergent and The Heroes of Olympus.

There is a copy of The Hunger Games waiting for us at the library; she asked me to put a hold on it pretty much as soon as she finished Allegiant. The hold expires on Saturday (the book came in about an hour after we visited the library on Sunday, and they only hold books for six days), but I will be downtown for an appointment on Friday, so I can pick it up then. I probably won't pick up my other holds then, however, having things due on Sunday is better for me (one of my waiting holds is a DVD with a waitlist. That will be due exactly a week from whenever I check it out, and getting it back to the library midweek would be a pain), and The Hunger Games hold is the only one that will expire before our next normal visit.

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You have a two way trip in a time machine backwards only. When do you choose to visit and return to the current time? (for zhelana)

There'd be a lot of factors playing into my decision-- How many people could go with me? Do other people get to make trips of their own or is this the only time ever for anybody? Do I have time before hand to learn a new language? What are the risks that I'll introduce a disease or some such to that time or otherwise catastrophically alter the timeline? Can I make deliberate changes? How long could I stay? What resources would I have for local money/trade goods? Do I have a way to defend myself if things go wrong?

For a short trip, one without a lot of preparation time, I think I might go back and see a Shakespeare play in the first run. That seems like something manageable. I'd probably experience extreme culture shock over being in a different time, but I think I could get by long enough to see a play. I'd do whatever I could, though, to avoid having to search out a privy in that time. I'm a little worried that I'd get mugged.

For a longer trip with more preparation (and more precautions), I think I'd be interested in going somewhere in Pre-Columbian North America. I haven't narrowed it down further than that, yet. That's where I'd be really worried about introducing some sort of disease to the population and where I'd want carefully selected trade goods.

Then again, if I could sneak in some modern technology in order to do some (a lot of) scanning of texts, a trip to the Library at Alexandria would be really tempting. Extremely tempting. I'd just have to learn a couple of languages first.

Of course, I'm mostly likely to want other people to go to all sorts of different times and places and to come back and write about what they experienced. There are all sorts of questions that time travel could answer.