[Clarion West 2k1, week 6. The final week in this six week program....]

Sunday. Spent most of the day figuring out just who was ordering what as far as the class t-shirts goes. We're making quite the fashion statement, going with "baby doll tees" as well as the standard Hanes Beefy-Tee style shirts. The class has ordered at least one of every available size in each of the available styles, and has also made special requests for special exceptions here and there. No big deal; just lots of details for me to track and make sure that the t-shirt printer tracks 'em, too.

Don't let my mentioning all this fool you: I actually enjoy this kind of work. :-)

We met Jack Womack, our instructor for the sixth and final week. Jack told us that we'll be working on characterization as well as endings, and several of the Clarionites mentioned a desire to make sure that we covered applying our tools to the crafting of novels as well as to short stories.

For our final Sunday group dinner: chicken masala (this effort was organized by Avi), vegan stew (I'm sorry; I don't know who led this effort), miso soup (Ari! Not to be confused with Avi...), and fruits for dessert (I think this was Karen, again, but I'm not certain).

Down at the end of the table where I was sitting, Jack and a bunch of us were talking about Russia and Russians, as several of us have had various adventures in and around the country and with the people.

Once critiquing was done for the day, I finally prepared a couple of batches of homemade chocolate pudding from scratch. This was around 10pm. It seemed to go over well, although a few people later complained that they found it hard to go to sleep that night thanks to the pure concentration of sugar and chocolate. Bwahahahaha....

I managed to get to bed at around 1am, for a total of seven hours of much needed sleep.