Sarah Monette's Blog, page 100
March 31, 2009
Project Valkyrie: Waterlog
TIME: 51 min.
DISTANCE: 6 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 195.9 mi.
DISTRACTION: "The Mad Mad Tea Party Affair"
NOTES: I think this would easily be my favorite MfU episode if only the Innocent of the Week could act. (Apparently Zohra Lampert can act, so she must have been having a seriously off day or something.)
SHIRE RECKONING: We're not quite to the eastern edge of the Marshes.
DISTANCE: 6 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 195.9 mi.
DISTRACTION: "The Mad Mad Tea Party Affair"
NOTES: I think this would easily be my favorite MfU episode if only the Innocent of the Week could act. (Apparently Zohra Lampert can act, so she must have been having a seriously off day or something.)
SHIRE RECKONING: We're not quite to the eastern edge of the Marshes.
March 30, 2009
Project Valkyrie: WiiLog
30 min.
I have to admit, the Wii people did find one of my buttons: the sense of progress bestowed by unlocking new activties pleases me, even though I know I'm being manipulated.
I have to admit, the Wii people did find one of my buttons: the sense of progress bestowed by unlocking new activties pleases me, even though I know I'm being manipulated.
Nine Things about Oracles
For the Nine Things about Oracles meme.
NINE THINGS ABOUT ORACLES
1. No take-backs.
2. Blood is an acceptable currency. So is hope.
3. You can find an oracle anywhere, if you look hard enough. It doesn't have to be a sacred cave, or a sacred grove. Playgrounds can be sacred. So can supermarkets.
4. Yes, the smell is horrible.
5. Come barefoot, or don't come at all.
6. The priests and the pimps may tell you that you need them to talk to the sibyl for you, but they're liars. She can hear you just fine.
7.
NINE THINGS ABOUT ORACLES
1. No take-backs.
2. Blood is an acceptable currency. So is hope.
3. You can find an oracle anywhere, if you look hard enough. It doesn't have to be a sacred cave, or a sacred grove. Playgrounds can be sacred. So can supermarkets.
4. Yes, the smell is horrible.
5. Come barefoot, or don't come at all.
6. The priests and the pimps may tell you that you need them to talk to the sibyl for you, but they're liars. She can hear you just fine.
7.
March 28, 2009
UBC (partial): The Beckoning Fair One
Onions, Oliver. "The Beckoning Fair One." The Collected Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions. 1935. New York: Dover Publications, 1971. 3-70.
This is one of those ghost stories that has been so influential that, reading it now, it has almost no punch left. Stephen King in particular--although he's far from the only one--uses the trick of ghosts or haunted spaces influencing the living, persuading them that a terrible idea is (a.) good and (b.) entirely their own. He does it in The Shining and in Christ
This is one of those ghost stories that has been so influential that, reading it now, it has almost no punch left. Stephen King in particular--although he's far from the only one--uses the trick of ghosts or haunted spaces influencing the living, persuading them that a terrible idea is (a.) good and (b.) entirely their own. He does it in The Shining and in Christ
Project Valkyrie
Half an hour with the Wii Fit, in which we proved (once again) that I'm pretty strong, but my balance sucks.
March 27, 2009
Project Valkyrie
half an hour with the Wii Fit.
The little animated Wii Fit board is cute and perky and it is totally Big Brother. Not unlike the incredibly cute alien at the Congressional hearings in Bloom County.
The little animated Wii Fit board is cute and perky and it is totally Big Brother. Not unlike the incredibly cute alien at the Congressional hearings in Bloom County.
my spies report that ...
Corambis has been sighted in the wild.
I totally have an adrenaline rush going on here, people.
I totally have an adrenaline rush going on here, people.
Look, Ray! Turtles!
So last night as I was sorting out my blankets (this is a complicated process, as anyone who has ever shared a hotel room with me can attest), I discovered under the bed one of my new winter boots. The right one, to be exact. The left boot, as I determined this morning, is in the front hall where it ought to be.
I have no idea how my right boot ended up under the bed. Goodness knows I'm absent minded, and I do have a tendency to leave things where they fall, but I really do think I'd remember wal
I have no idea how my right boot ended up under the bed. Goodness knows I'm absent minded, and I do have a tendency to leave things where they fall, but I really do think I'd remember wal
March 26, 2009
Waterlog
TIME: 25 min.
DISTANCE: 2.7 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 189.9 mi.
DISTRACTION: 2nd half of "The Yellow Scarf Affair"
NOTES: Any excuse to leer at Robert Vaughn's ass is a good excuse.
SHIRE RECKONING: Still in the Midgewater Marshes.
DISTANCE: 2.7 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 189.9 mi.
DISTRACTION: 2nd half of "The Yellow Scarf Affair"
NOTES: Any excuse to leer at Robert Vaughn's ass is a good excuse.
SHIRE RECKONING: Still in the Midgewater Marshes.
Twittering
I have joined Twitter as pennyvixen.
(Back in the Dark Ages, when I was first nervously contemplating joining LiveJournal, pennyvixen was one of the LJ handles I considered and discarded. It seems to me, however, to suit Twitter admirably.)
(Back in the Dark Ages, when I was first nervously contemplating joining LiveJournal, pennyvixen was one of the LJ handles I considered and discarded. It seems to me, however, to suit Twitter admirably.)
