Not.

[mrissa]

This is me not going to Madison for Andrew's wedding today.

This is me not applying to Viable Paradise this year.

This is me not making plans to go to the Bay Area with markgritter yet.

This is me not buying a membership for WorldCon or World Fantasy Con yet.

This is me not in a good mood.

This is me squaring my shoulders and going on with the day. All right, I've already asked you to tell me something good, and I've already asked about dreams. Silly fantasy writer question of the day (which does not make me silly fantasy writer of the day -- you can still vie for that title, some of you): if you got to have one object you currently own invested with magic, what object would it be, and what magic?

Alternately, do you know what your oldest possession is? and why have you kept it for that long?

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[redbird]

My oldest possession is probably a silver rattle. It has a toothmark in it, which my mother tells me I made. She gave it, and an accompanying silver charm (also rattly), to me when I was in my late teens. I think she assumed I'd pass it on to my children (this was before I'd become sure I didn't want them). I have yet to have an appropriate child to pass it along to (it should properly be given to a good friend who has an infant), so I still have it.

That's possession-I've-had-longest (though with a gap); alternatively, the dresser I've been using since I was three was my mother's first, and is well older than I am. I'm not sure how old my grandmother's earrings are.