The problem with Sam being in Vermont is that my motivation to get out of bed becomes nearly non-existant. Never mind that I have to get candy canes on my way to work and that I do still have to be there at 9 to unlock the elevators. Stupid mornings.

Stupid normal body sleep cycle reasserting itself. I am so tired. _

I could never do Nano. I have been working on a Yuletide story for a month. While it is longer than almost all of the papers I ever turned in in college, probably even including my rather wretched Freshman essay on the Oresteia, I'm not done, it isn't 2000 words, let alone novel length. And it's nearly 1, and I have to have it done by tomorrow night.

I am fairly sure I'm very close. I know the scenes that are yet to come, and what I want to have happen. I am less sure about the transition between them.

And Pandora has failed to produce a good Waltz Party for me. Bad Pandora. This bothers me. I was feeling nostalgic for Waltz Parties about the time that I decided that the Halloween Waltz was going to be key for the story. And then Gillen announced on Facebook that apparently the Christmas Waltz had no swing, waltz, or tango. And then I got really nostalgic for waltz parties. (This is why I have had "The Waltz of the Flowers" in my head for a week, except when I have Shoshtokov's Waltz from the Jazz Suite, which may have never been played at Waltz Parties, but it was in the first episode of Nero Wolfe and was fabulous.)

I feel like I'm in college, really. I wrote most of my papers after midnight. It used to bother my senior essay advisor, I would email him my essay as I was going to bed at 3 or 4. Of course, I didn't have anything to do the next day except continue to dither around and not write about Homer until it was really late. But I have to go to work in the morning.

I think I ate too much sugar. (I know I ate too much sugar.) I'm just amazed that I am still high on sugar. _

I have two ice cream/sorbet cookbooks, one creme brulee, one whoopie pie, and now one macaron. Also, I have three bread cookbooks.

I'm looking forward to macaron experiments. And also whoopie pies, but macaron is new, and meringue like, and therefore exciting. _