I have to say, the weather outside this morning is really testing my commitment to jogging! It's a good thing I have a jogging partner, because otherwise, one look out the window and I would have gone straight back to bed. Oh well. I'm sure this counts as building character...

It turned out to be a wonderful writing weekend--yesterday I wrote another 8 pages, finishing Chapter Six (well beyond my original modest goal of writing 6 pages over the entire weekend), and Patrick actually finished the new draft of his novel The Sleepers! Woohoo! Much celebration.

Last night we rounded the weekend off by watching the pilot episode of Northern Exposure, which was cute and funny. I'd seen lots of scattered episodes from the later seasons before, but never anything from the first season (which we now have on DVD). Even knowing that the series was shot in Washington, watching it still made both of us want to visit Alaska...