Hung out with Joy and Steph last night at Joy's house, watching Muriel's Wedding; a welcome bit of rebirth after six and a half hours of group work at school. Joy went through the novel opening and gave me some really useful feedback, there's going to be a whole new section devoted to a character who really needs to be developed more.
While we watched the movie, Sambuca sat on my lap and demanded that I masturbate her tail in time to the Abba. I did so, and then felt dirty. She seemed rather enthralled with me for some reason. I suspect she's been unfaithful.
Worked out my novel presentation in class today.
And now I'm home, home, home to write critiques on short stories and hopefully get some work done on the first section of Meringue's novel; the feedback was excellent and included some useful line edits to keep in mind. The annoying thing about it being a first section is that there is no room to demonstrate overarching concepts - I need to include in the outline I hand in that the images of women in the first section (often being teared down or destroyed) are meant to parallel the really strong, powerful goddess figures in the coming second section, which relates to the first section's women being destroyed so that the second section women can create Meringue out of them, in Renaldo's body. Luckily the tense and point of view shifts mostly work, which I was worried about.