Yay! From the email:

"Zodico House is known for its talent in - and love of - music."

Now, that's funny. Me? Love of music? LOL.

In other news, got my chapter back from NSS, and she liked it *yay*. So I'll do the corrections and submit it sometime tonight or in the morning.

Had a luvverly day, even though I woke up with a sore throat and flu-like aching skin. After feeding myself plenty of Vitamin C, I'm feeling well enough, though, to spend a bit of time on the net. blue_paris and I went to TGIF for lunch, while Dorkboy and Little Man went to the tennis court in the park. Then we walked up to Oxford Circus, popped into Godiva's and the Apple Store, where I still didn't find the connector piece for the mic so I could record on the iPod. Oh well. One day, I'll find it. I couldn't have talked much today anyways because my throat is hurting.

We also popped into Waterstones on Oxford Street, and Sara found a book on design of Cafés and Bars, and I found one on song-writing.

I've not done any writing today, but have spent quite some time pondering the progression of my audio project, and I feel I'm getting somewhere. I like the music I've done for it so far, even if I say so myself. I really need the rhythm pack for GarageBand, so I can do some jazzy House Anthems for PR.

I've been thinking about upcoming stories to write. I've signed up for the Paintbrush and Quill Society at Phoenix Rising, which I'm rather excited about. Have not received the assignment so far, and I think the deadline is sometime in December. Then there is WM, which I'm currently writing at the rate of roughly 500 words a day. So far, I haven't deviated too far from the outline, but then again, I never know what The Muse decides.

There is the likelihood of a Christmas HG/SS Exchange, which I'd love to participate in. Firstly, it was great fun, and secondly, it was a great challenge that taught me a lot. I'd love to see that I can do better next time. I'm not exactly unhappy with the outcome of my story, but I hope I can do better, ie. write something a little bit deeper.

Doing all of the above seems quite a task, especially considering that we'll be moving from one continent to another in the next six to eight weeks. On the other hand, of course, moving half way across the world means plenty of time in an airplane, with plenty of time to write.

Now, to Phoenix Rising. I saw on phoenix_chat that someone already created a community for one ship, I think it's Snarry. Should we create one for Snermione shippers? We could pimp it both on LJ and on the PR forum, and I think it would be fun getting to know those who attend before the event. What do ya'll think?

We played around with the Macbook, or rather, with its built-in camera and snapshot feature - I'm sharing the fun below.



The "x-ray" mode



The "comic" mode

ellaselenelupin, hogwartshoney, remusseverus and I were talking on IM last night about costumes. ellaselenelupin found an awesome link on German e-bay, which prompted me to do a search there. I came across one I really liked, they're professional, fairly big sized, and the prices are good. So I decided to see if they speak English, so I can recommend them. And lo and behold, they do. Got a very nice email back, really helpful and all.

So, my recommendation would be, to look at the site, describing all their clothing in great detail, in English, go here. Do not buy there because their UK prices are a good bit higher than their prices on the German site, and I was assured that they take queries in English. To order, once you know the name of the garment you're after (they're identical on both sites), go to their German site. What's best, their garments is made to measure, and I found the prices reallly reasonable.

They also sell on ebay.

EDIT: The German site does indeed mail into the US, S&P is Euro 15. All you have to do is e-mail your order to service at dornblut.de, and you can do it in English.

If you happen to have any websites you'd recommend for costumes, please leave a comment.