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I have just got back from chilly Derbyshire after spending the weekend reading eight Shakespeare plays with twenty fabulous friends. Probably my personal acting highlight was doing the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet - apart from my unintentional wandering accent, I think I did well and I definitely enjoyed myself, especially with the first long speech. Other than that, I think most of it was great in different ways. There were several plays I really didn't know, like the Merchant of Venice abd Hamlet, both of which had utterly excellent leads, so I generally had enormous fun. I got to meet medieval_bunny and see verlaine without his gold paint! I had a lovely sauna! I got to be Margaret in Much Ado and the Princess in Love's Labour's Lost! I dressed up for the first party and wore my shiny skirt for the second time! There was tasty food and alcohol!

I didn't quite manage to talk properly with all the people I wanted, as I (like numerous others, I think) ended up with a case of social anxiety for the latter part of the weekend. It's odd, I don't often get like that - I'm quite often someone who sits in a corner but it's usually because I want to rather than that I believe I can't be anything other than an unwelcome interruption! Anyway, it was relatively mild, and staying up latelatelate with a smaller group of people alleviated it quite a bit. I want to have a party of my own now. I'll wait to see what happens with work possibilities and if I end up with some time off I will use it to do the house.

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I have a question for you all. At the moment I have a number of very beautiful blank books; I have some gorgeous small fabric-covered ones of different kinds, and a big thick marbled-edges hardback one my dad brought from Florence for Christmas, and three little Moleskine cardboard cahiers (lined paper) from my brother Giles. I want to use these glorious books, but I'm not sure what to write in them! I have a diary (in a ringbound sketchbook which mirabehn has just returned after caring for it devotedly for some months - thank you!) and a commonplace book already. I think I will use one of the cahiers for a books-I-have-read notebook. Any ideas for the others? What things do you or would you write in blank books?

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Good thought! Most of them are quite small though (the biggest is A4) and I have sketchbooks for the art. I was actually given a sketchbook that I haven't included on the list because I categorise those differently in my head! But I could do some sort of slightly pretentious art journal, or fancy Art Concept sketchbook.