Tuesday

[nightdog_barks]

Well, the sun is trying to come out. Still a bit cool at 66 degrees (18.8 Celsius).

Wren Update: On the nest yesterday, not this morning. The five eggs are still whole.

Not much, so here's an interesting interview with the British novelist David Mitchell (Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green). I'm a big Mitchell fan, and was just delighted to see he's got a new book out. In the interview, he talks about the difficulties and accompanying terrors of writing in the third person (he was afraid of not knowing where to stop) and the limits his children might face if he and his family had continued to live in Japan (his wife is Japanese). The interview is here.

In other news, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall is garnering bets to be the first Booker/Orange Prize double winner. Lorrie Moore's A Gate at the Stairs and Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna are also in the running.

So. Poem coming up.

Comments

[perspi.livejournal.com]

AW, WHEN ARE THE EGGS GOING TO HAAAATCH???

Ahem. Hi?

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Hee! No, I know. I'm a little concerned -- they're reaching the end of their incubation period, and it DID get pretty damn cold just a few days after they showed up. I'm afraid Mama Wren may have laid them just a tad too early for the season. But. We'll see.

Also, I just got an email from a cousin of mine and it was all ZOMG OBAMA IS A MUSLIM!!!!!WE'RE DOOMED!!LL1L1L111!!844GJHAMLKEFN BGHE!!!

Sigh.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

WAIT--WE'RE DOOMED? WTF AM I DOING GRADING EXAMS??!LL1L1L111!!

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

FOR REAL, DUDE! WHY AREN'T YOU OUT WITH THE TEA PARTIERS ... HAVING A PAR-TAY????????

I knew my cousin was of that branch of the family that's somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun ... this is the first email I've gotten in a while. It has a photo of the President carrying a book entitled The Post-American World, which proves (a) he's plotting TEH DOWNFALL OF AMERICA! and (b) he's a Muslim, because the book was written by a Muslim. You know. Fareed Zakaria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fareed_Zakaria), that FAMOUS ISLAMIC FIREBRAND.

Oy.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

It's a little overcast and cool here too. It was raining earlier, but it was sort of drizzly rain and it's stopped. Maybe the babies will make an appearance soon?

I have been chipping away at the massive to-do list the Padre left for me -- he's in Louisiana on continuing education -- and have made good headway.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

OMG NIGHTDOG NOOOOO


...actually, tea sounds like just the thing. I think I'll make some.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

The sun still hasn't really come out here, but as long as it's not dark and rainy I guess that's okay.

Today hasn't been very productive for me so far ... I did get the trash set out, which is a good thing. *g* I'm still shaking my head over my cousin (see my reply to Perspi). And I've got a first line that's niggling at the back of my brain sparked by the PPTH Support post by K-gal, but it doesn't want to go anywhere. Grrrr.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

This is why my side of the family does not have our e-mail address. :D

IF WE'RE ALL DOOMED THEN I WANT CHOCOLATE. SOCIALIST EUROPEAN CHOCOLATE. LOTS AND LOTS OF IT RIGHT NOW!!!

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I hope that spark catches fire. Those challenges are wonderful to do (and often the only writing I get done on my own these days.)

[perspi.livejournal.com]

I AM EATING SOCIALIST EUROPEAN CHOCOLATE RIGHT THE HELL NOW.

Seriously: Lindt dark chocolate, with a touch of sea salt. I would TOTALLY share it with you. :)

[felis-nocturna.livejournal.com]

Ehm. This is probably a very stupid question, but: Do you call people on stuff like this? Or do you just shake your head and move on?

You obviously don't have to answer that if you don't want to, just curious.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

DUDE! SOCIALIST EUROPEAN CHOCOLATE FTFW!!!!!!

Heh. I should tell her I write MEN IN LOVE, with optional HOTT GAY SEXX0RS BOOM CHICKA BOW WOW and watch her run away screaming. Except then she'd probably start sending me Bible verses.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

AND TENTACLES WITH HINTS OF DE GAY SECKSUAL TENSHUN! DON'T FORGET THAT ONE!

Probably she would. You'd become a "project" for her, and nobody wants that.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

NOM NOM!

Now I have a reason to stop at the drugstore on the way home and get some of dat old ebbil Socialist Chocolate. *G*

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

It's not a stupid question. :-)

I thought about saying something, but ... there honestly doesn't seem to be any reasoning with people like this. For everything you say, they have another (crazy) fallback. And in the end, you can't reason with crazy. It's like arguing with a troll on the Internet. They're never going to change their mind and it's like banging your head against a brick wall.

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

Hey. Just dropping in while snarfing down a very late lunch, and now I must get cleaned up and ready for evening shift.

In other news, I am displeased to find that Art Center the First must have kindly held registration open for another day or two for me, because I have a beginning drawing class there on Thursday evening, just when I thought I was going to get a break. :-P

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've had that email from a family member of mine. It's been going around for quite a while now.

Because obviously, nobody can read a book written by someone with a differing viewpoint from their own. If you're reading it, you agree 100% with everything in the book and in the author's belief system.

*headdesk*

[perspi.livejournal.com]

MARE MARE HI HELLO!

*GLOMPS*

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that (a) Fareed Zakaria is an eminently sensible guy and in no way connected to radical Islam, and (b) wouldn't it be like TEH BAD GUY carrying a book detailing his SUPAH SEKRIT PLANS FOR WORLD DOMINATION, entitled MY SUPAH SEKRIT PLANS FOR WORLD DOMINATION?

Yoiks.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I just got back from the JCC's Israel Birthday celebration, which included free coffee and a tiny petting zoo of baby sheep, goats, and an alpaca. I smell like sheep snot, and a goat sneezed on my shirt, and I'm feeling genuinely happy.

I would've bought a bottle of milk, but I was out of cash.

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

Hey sweetie!

*quick glomps*

Got to run; I'm on shift at 5! See you around 9.