Hopefully tomorrow I shall have a pretty dress

Ecdysiast - A striptease artist.

I know I was reading an Alan Dean Foster book but which one and what was going on? H.L. Mencken is credited with creating it from the word ecdysis, meaning "The shedding of an outer integument or layer of skin, as by insects, crustaceans, and snakes; molting." (www.thefreedictionary.com) So strippers are like cicadas, huh? According to the striptease article on wikipedia Mencken coined the term after the stripper Gypsy Rose Lee asked for a more dignified name for her job. I can't tell if he was joking or not. Maybe I shouldn't have put a picture of my grandma next to this entry. She was most definitely not an ecdysiast.

I have to go to the dry cleaners tomorrow to pick up my (hopefully) hemmed dress. Then off to buy a few sundries to go with it.

I finished U is for Undertow. I felt the book was much more low-key than the others in the series. There was more focus on the story unraveling in the past and present of the characters involved in the kidnapping drama. Kinsey still has quite a bit to do but she shares the story with everyone else. The ending was surprisingly funny in a way. Almost anti-climactic but in a good way. A refreshing change from dramatic hardened killers making desperate last stands. Not that I don't enjoy those endings, too. It's just nice to see something different.

I am really tired. Tomorrow I'll continue with Khadra and Baantjer.