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My favourite Buffy quote to actually use in conversation is something Willow says in the episode "Gingerbread" (and I know that because that's what it said on the page when I googled it):

'It's a doodle, I do doodle. You too, you do doodle too.'

Partly because it works for non-Buffy fans (unlike, say, "Well, we could grind our enemies into talcum powder with a sledgehammer, but, gosh, we did that last night.") and partly because I am always having to explain about the little pictures that magically appear in my notebooks and pieces of paper that I use in lectures and tutes. I accidentally drew on someone else's paper the other week. I was so embarrased.

Here's my doodles from waiting for lectures to begin yesterday. (Note that the girl in the dress on the right is a fairly accurate representation of my smock dress, but not of me.)

In Which There Is Much Rejoicing

My dear friends in South Australia are having a baby. So I made them a 'Hooray - You're Pregant!' Card. (Even if I didn't use those exact words.) Everyone back home is all excited. And so am I, even if I have done my best to surmount the hyperness by spending six hours painstakingly fitting together the little greeting card: carefully tracing the image out of my uni notebook (it began life as a doodle), even more carefully accidentally wrecking three when I went over the tracing in gold, cutting all the bits out, dabbing ti-i-iny dots of PVA glue on with a matchstick, tying little knots in the string so the beads stay in the right place... (they don't read the blog, so I can safely complain about it all here.) And yet, am still hyperventilating...

It's all just sooo shiny.