two for the price of one

Spent yesterday night polishing Five and writing Six, and now both are up.

I feel like I finally got the chance to start working in some meaty backstory with Six. Paine's character is thoroughly established as someone who doesn't talk about her past much, so I'm having to work in tidbits organically rather than present a backstory dump, which would probably ring false in a personal diary anyway. It's more challenging but also much more interesting, and I think will make for a better story in the end.

A lovely YAC chapter came along while I was writing, with lots of inspiring bits for my own Seven. Thank you Lee!

ps to RyRy, re. the two vs. three comment in your review of Five: no, three is what I meant. "...trysting with all three of them", as in Nooj worries that Paine is sleeping with all three of the men. But you're right about the other one; it's awkward. I think I may have written it that way to refer back to a turn of phrase which I used earlier in the chapter and then changed.

why to keep up on professional literature

Well, this would put something of a kink in your research plans...

In other professional librarian adventures, I've just spent the last three days trying to order some textbooks for a class that starts on Monday. No one could find the ISBN for the book; it simply wasn't in the system, even though our representative assured us that we had the correct one. After being passed around to half a dozen people in our corporate office and at the publishing company, I finally got in touch with the right person this afternoon.

There was a typo in the ISBN. One number off. I almost had a stroke when I realized. All this running around and stress over a freakin' typo?

Arrrrrr...