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WAY much work going down here - so much that I don't even have time really to post photos. Severe, huh? But I have spent the last ten minutes cooing over random online pictures of cute fluffy bunnies, as a relaxing mechanism. I want a cute fluffy bunny, then I could cuddle it for real. A bunny would be happy in our flat.

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I am having a BAD QUILL DAY and I want to scream and shout and throw things. It was going really well a little while ago, thus: there's a way of cutting your quill so that you get these beautiful little crescents on the left-hand end of your horizontals. The original scribe of the Torah I'm currently working on made his letters with these little crescents, and I'm trying to match them in my restoration, but it's slow because I don't know how to cut the special crescent quill and I have to draw them all in separately (or not bother).

And then this morning, totally by accident, I cut a quill that did crescents PERFECTLY. This happens occasionally. I can never replicate it. It was lovely for a few hours, and then I had to sharpen it, and it just wasn't the same after that, and then it just got worse and worse and wouldn't even make straight lines, let alone crescents.

Poop.

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I'm doing the certificates for this year's batch of Drisha grads (MJNH, are you listening?), and I really wanted to leave them until after the current flurry of work is over. But Drisha were getting a little anxious cos they like getting things sorted well in advance, so I spent this evening doing it (after I got back from a lecture and swimming)*. I don't usually work this late. I think I get a pat on the head for being so jolly nice.

* That is to say, I went to a lecture and then I went swimming. The two were not simultaneous.