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[sakon76]

Well, I seem to be over being depressed, which is good. I can deal with things without being a hair away from starting to cry in class. Not sure whether this is due to fixing a scene in a script I'm working on, or finally getting to read _Geisha, A Life_ after coveting it for months. Possibly both. The book is definitely good, if not quite as useful from a writer's research point as I'd hoped. Still, there are remarkably few English-language books on geisha. Arthur Golden's novel _Memoirs of a Geisha_ is the foremost, though I don't tend to like it as well. Liza Dalby's _Geisha_ and _Kimono_ are my preferred research texts, even though the latter is frustratingly vague on many, many areas which I wish I knew more about. Seasonal motifs, and the modern methods of traditional kimono making... ahhh, how dearly I would covet a text on those subjects. But for now I am calm and writing, which is generally a sign that things are right in the universe.