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i am having macaroons for breakfast.
i am anxiously hoping to get a bazillion things done today (starting with laundry, as my title says).
aside from working on the book, i need to put in a good gaggle of hours on Jack, Eieison, and wretched, wretched homework (someone remind me why i am taking summer school?)
( some stuff about comparing trial transcripts that's prolly too boring for most of my flist )
random macabre fact (fun if you're into this sort of thing): two men who stopped Anna Surratt from seeing President Johnson to plead for clemency on the day of her mother's execution (and about whom she complained in a letter to Hanty later) killed themselves within the year. Preston King drowned himself and James Lane shot himself. i should temper this (lest i foment further conspiracy gibberish) by saying that both men were very troubled and had numerous problems outside of being party to thwarting the stay of execution. that doesn't, however, make it any less inneresting ~
picture of the day: Hanty's uniform coat (the one he wore on the day of the execution).
fond sigh ~ there are some things
i wish never went out of fashion
i have to add: it's kinda amazing that something like this managed to get handed down in such good condition after 140 years. but Hanty seems to have been a bit of a packrat judging by the papers and things he left behind (or perhaps his wife was).
okay, gotta git to work.
happy monday all!
: D
i am anxiously hoping to get a bazillion things done today (starting with laundry, as my title says).
aside from working on the book, i need to put in a good gaggle of hours on Jack, Eieison, and wretched, wretched homework (someone remind me why i am taking summer school?)
( some stuff about comparing trial transcripts that's prolly too boring for most of my flist )
random macabre fact (fun if you're into this sort of thing): two men who stopped Anna Surratt from seeing President Johnson to plead for clemency on the day of her mother's execution (and about whom she complained in a letter to Hanty later) killed themselves within the year. Preston King drowned himself and James Lane shot himself. i should temper this (lest i foment further conspiracy gibberish) by saying that both men were very troubled and had numerous problems outside of being party to thwarting the stay of execution. that doesn't, however, make it any less inneresting ~
picture of the day: Hanty's uniform coat (the one he wore on the day of the execution).
fond sigh ~ there are some things
i wish never went out of fashion
i have to add: it's kinda amazing that something like this managed to get handed down in such good condition after 140 years. but Hanty seems to have been a bit of a packrat judging by the papers and things he left behind (or perhaps his wife was).
okay, gotta git to work.
happy monday all!
: D
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