zirconium

Our friends Jase and Chuck are hosting a carnival tonight. Since I own a cloak, and it's going to be cold, I told the BYM that I'd be going as a Generic Fairy Tale Character.

He nodded sagely: "Oh, that's what I tell people you are anyway."

(The ongoing joke in his circles is that I'm imaginary, since I'm more introverted than he is by a factor of 31.)

I am, however, also the Queen of Tarts. (The Dreamwidth icon, incidentally, was taken in front of a Dublin cafe with that name.) After consulting this recipe for proportions, I made a plate of chocolate cheesecake bites and another of raspberry-jalapeno ones:



I'm also going to be wearing two pendants, both made by Jaime Lee Moyer (her Etsy shop is Warrior Kitten Creations). The one that arrived in this morning's mail is my prize as one of the October first line contest winners:



(The one I won earlier is chronicled here.)

...It was a poetry-thickened week, in fact. Wednesday, I went to Vanderbilt to hear Lisa Dordal read from her new book, Commemoration. She also read some poems outside of the collection, including "Bad Dog on Couch," which has made me smile every time I hear it. I've also been wrestling with revisions for a poem I originally started submitting to markets in 2009. I truly thought it was ready back then, of course, but rereading it earlier this week, I realized it needed a better first line, and by the time I was done, the only words the new version shared with the original were those making up 3/4 of the punchline.