Okay - I need help! and coffee!

Right ... so, I would like a European city that has an old opera house and a large river. Details would be lovely, too ... if you know anything about the city, or the opera house, or you know, generally useful details. I'm not necessarily looking for "Oh, the ----- Opera House is on ---- Street, just between the bakery and the library," but more along the lines of details useful for writing, you know. Are the chandeliers absolutely fabulous, is it entirely red velvet and gilt, has it been restored, etc.

If you have any brilliant ideas of what opera(s) that I might choose, that would be fabulous as well. Simply fabulous ... oh, I do heart you muchly, darling flist.

Also, has the genealogy craze happened in Europe? If you want to trace your ancestors back to, I don't know, the 17th century, is it possible? How would you go about doing it?

While you are being so terribly helpful, can you interpret my strange results and do all of my experiments for today so that I can write? Pretty please? :)

Pick-a-century

I am not really sure where my pre-coffee ideas were coming from, but I have decided to abandon the 17th/18th century and go for the 19th century. I think I might go for this opera house, but I'm not 100% convinced about it yet. Given my flyaway sentences and paragraphs, it's also quite possible that the setting will never be explicitly mentioned. I've had sugar, and so I'm okay with that.

I have yet to find any sort of author search function on the website, and it's absolutely the slowest freaking thing I've ever had the misfortune to know ... well, by "ever" I mean since the days of modems and blah-blah-blah, computer things.... so here is a link direct to my profile, so feel free to add me as a friend if you like. I will probably post excerpts and such there, once I stop trying to kick the server.

It's turned out to be a great thing that I ended up writing original fic and not fanfic, since a couple of rl people have found out about NaNo already -- one of my close friends I told, and another girl saw me writing on the bus and asked about it. A wants to see a draft of it when I'm finished, but I'm not sure that it's a great idea ... I mean, is it? We'll see ... I wouldn't feel exactly comfortable about it, and I'm almost certain to have written something that will shock her.

Anyhow, I'd best be back to writing ... I'd like to get past 2000 today. :)