I want to be the girl with the most cake

Here's today's progress on my 19th century D.C. spy caper about a powerful Difference Engine that will end the Civil War - now with warhawk conspiracies, clockwork assassins, two presidents with more in common than they know, two spies with less in common than they think, a conflicted U.S. Marshal, and Bonus! not-at-all mad scientist who can save the world if someone will just give him a chance:
Project: Fiddlehead
Deadline: October 1, 2012
New words written: 3524 (not bad)
Present total word count: 73,702 words





Things accomplished in real life: Daily jog with the dog and the n yoga before breakfast; exchanged some emails re: Inexplicables with the Mighty and Powerful Liz; sorted out some convention travel; packed up Dad's birthday goodies and went to the post office to ship it; performed minor yardwork; took some undignified dog pictures.

Other: Tomorrow I'm having lunch with an old friend and her husband, so the word count will probably be a little lower - but I'll see what I can do. DEATHMARCH: ONWARD.