AHHHH!!!

I am so so so so so so excited! And I have a whole hour which must pass away before the lovely event can begin to take place. I'm going to a Jane Austen Christmas Ball!!! Oh, oh, oh, oh! At 2 or 2:30, we shall take ourselves to a friend's house to get ready, and then at 4, the ball! I don't know why I'm so excited… but I am!!! Perhaps because I just read Pride and Prejudice (fastest I've ever read it; only a week!). Or maybe because I started Persuasion, or perhaps because I am wearing a lovely dark red dress. Or maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic, as my mother says. And balls are romantic (and that is Anne-of-Green-Gables-romantic, not meet-kiss-get-married-romantic). For whatever reason, I am extremely bouncy and have way too much energy (and way too many butterflies in my stomach).
Fare thee well, sweet comrades!
Oh, and Happy New Year!