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Dragged out my old Victorian riding habit for Dickens Faire tomorrow and determined that it was passable with some quick and dirty taking in at several places. Unlike a number of other outfits, I'm unlikely to do serious alterations on this one (but will probably also keep it around). It just isn't an era I do much costuming in but it's useful to have something to wear. I have a bit of a fascination with riding habits as a genre and it provides an excuse for not bothering with excessive underpinnings.

I'll be quite the social butterfly this weekend: Dickens with xrian, scotica and possibly others; etaine_pommier's cookie party; and then tafelspitz's aebelskiver breakfast. I suppose I should also get the holiday cards addressed and mailed (probably no chatty letter this time, easier than figuring out what to say) and at least start brainstorming on gift-shopping.

Still writing every day. Have a good handle on how I want to approach name-generation, but I need to sit down and actually apply the sound rules to a large body of name-candidates and see what starts sticking to which characters. (I have, however, drawn up an extensive list of People and Places That Need Names.) I'm starting to think that, having solidly laid down Part I, it may not be that bad an idea to have jumped to the end and started working backwards from Part V. I'm "discovering" a number of useful and convenient things that are going to have happened, and working backwards makes it easier to set them up. Still, not the most natural way to work (and probably not the most efficient in the long run.)