oh em ef gee

Had our first Artist's Way meeting last night, which was mostly just organizational and talking about the process rather than Doing The First Chapter even. And I got up and did my morning pages like a good girl, started getting dressed, came in to check Teh Intarweb weather reports...

...and instead wrote the beginning of a story. Something I haven't done, nor even attempted, for what, ten years? This is scary, in a good way, I think. But also just scary.

(The true test, of course, will be if I can write the middle of it. But to have started at all is...yeah.)

Memetastic: This Date In Wikipedia

Wikipedia birthday meme ahoy...

Three events that took place on Feb 20:

* 1472 - Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, due to a defaulted dowry payment.
* 1872 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
* 1962 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth.

And two births (with extra bonus birth):

* 1942 - Phil Esposito, Canadian hockey player
* 1954 - Anthony Stewart Head, English actor
* 1967 - Kurt Cobain, American musician

And one death:

* 2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)