A friend's journal mentioned Shakespeare's birthday, and several others have pointed out that this is National Poetry Month. In honor of Shakespeare, poetry, and Jane Austen, whose work I fannishly adore, I here quote the poem that was so important to Marianne Dashwood. ( Read more... )

If you want me to ask you five weird and wonderful questions just ask. I believe the password is "do me." :) These questions are from stmargarets:

I just had to post to see my wonderful new icon made for me by Maria Vicente at http://community.livejournal.com/saturday_xx/. To all the strange "fans?" who found Rowling's comments about the pressure to be thin "hypocritical," this one's for you.

Edited to add: I forgot the word "Frankly" which really is an important part. So, I made my own icon. I'm not sure it's as good, but I love the word frankly. So, yeah, this is my icon.

I love this one, because I love travelling. Behind the cut is a map of all the countries I've been to. ( See it. )

I'm distressed to see I've never been to Central or South America, Africa, or Australia.