To the person who is leaving comments in Chinese.

I assume you are trying to post advertisements and blogger is automatically scrubbing them, because your comments are always gone by the time I try to reply to you to tell you:

I don't read Chinese: Mandarin and Cantonese are both a mystery to me. I have a very small readership, and I don't think any of them can read your posts, either. Since they automatically disappear very quickly, YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME.

Please stop. It is irritating to have squiggles appear in my inbox daily.

October Magic sale on my Etsy site!

October Magic -- 20% off all items tagged Autumn, Fantasy, or Costume.

I do love this time of year. I'm trying to organize my improv dance class to go to the downtown Santa Cruz Halloween promenade and actually pperform in public. People have said they like the idea, but I know a lot of them are kind of stage-fright prone, so I don't think more than a third of the class will show up. And yet you never know-- people do let themselves get a bit wild come Halloween.