Two items!

1. My word of the day is bigot. It means "A person who's intolerantly and obstinately devoted to his own prejudices," or, "a jerk."

2. I was reading some books today and it occurred to me that perhaps I could start learning the runic alphabet. I want to learn Elder Futhark because it seems most magically useful, but we have the most amazing copy of the Codex Runicus - Madam Pince reproduced a page for me so that I could show you all, here it is:



Isn't that amazing? I wish that we had pretty books like that of Elder Futhark but we don't, runes weren't used very much until the 1800s when arithmancy started becoming more important and people realised that they had always used arithmantic ideas to make magic. Oh - but I'm so thrilled to be able to start doing something, learning runes, I mean! It will almost be like being a student.

3. Terry, I am so glad that you're feeling better.