1. Survived my daughter's birthday party despite having a migraine. At least the cake was good.
2. Was able to nap after the party.
3. Lots of compliments on my hair color. This is probably because I wore it down, which I don't usually do.

Ended up in the middle of a lockdown drill with a bunch of kindergartners today. I wouldn't call that a "good" thing—the fact we need such drills at all is a whole issue I don't feel like taking up at this late hour and on so little sleep—but there is a little game I've created to help the kids through it. I tell them it's a "T-rex" drill. See, most kids have seen some Jurassic Park movie, or heard about one through a sibling, so they all know that a T-rex can't see you if you stay still. And he can't hear you if you're super quiet. So that's what I tell the kids: "Pretend there is a T-rex out there somewhere." Kids are great at pretending. And dinosaurs are way less scary than, "There might be someone with a gun out there."

I didn't get quite as much writing done as I would have like, but I did post a short video. Also, my book The Fall and Rise of Peter Stoller is just 99 cents for a few days.

Evening out with my oldest. We had dinner then went to see King Lear (the NTLive production featuring Ian McKellen as Lear). It was his first official Shakespeare, and he really enjoyed it. Managed to follow along fairly well, though asked me to confirm what was happening now and then.

Also, I managed to fix some issues with my WIP. I had an info dump chapter that wasn't working, but I *think* it does now.

1. Wrote about 1500 words today.
2. There continues to be interest in Faebourne.
3. Took the kids to see Labyrinth on the big screen. They've seen it, but not in a cinema. I haven't seen it in a cinema since I was eight. So that was fun.

I know. I've been away a few days. In truth, I was having a down spell and didn't feel like coming here to think up good things to write about. I'm still struggling to think of any, but I'll say the reaction to my posting the first chapter of Faebourne has been encouraging. And when I wrote about the homosexual romance in the book—fully expecting backlash because readers of the genre are sometimes religious and homophobic—I was actually told that readers were very interested and hoping to preorder. (On that note: I hope to have preorders up in the next couple weeks.)

So, yeah. Those are good things.

And the amazing full moon my son and I saw this morning while I drove him to school? That was pretty cool, too.