Weekend Update

[eredien]

- Have catharsis.
- Relax.
- Inform sister of being a dragon; have meaningful conversation about same.
- Begin to plan trip home for Thanksgiving. Make reservations.
- Clean out email box; mail letters to grandmother and friends in Japan.
- Watch Mirrormask. If you are anywhere near a theatre showing this movie, please go. Your interest will help it get a wider release, and it's worth it. I mean, she's out-Gothed Jareth the Goblin King from Labyrinth! Write review of same.
- Find and send in RSVP for kaypendragon's wedding; dig out information for calling therapist for depression at the same time. Call therapist.
- Read good books. Finished: The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Phoebe Gloeckner. God, I thought my adolescence was abnormal, but I guess I was wrong. Begun: the second in the Curse of Chalion series by Bujold; Ursula Vernon's wonderful gearworld journal project. More on tap: Mythago Wood, and another separate memoir thing written by my freshman year HA, both of which I need to order.
- Begin redesign of website.
- Read more of Thrud's novel and comment.
- Laundry.
- Sleep.
- Write up huge LJ post that I have been promising for weeks.
- Do research on Amber Room; attempt more on the sestina. Retitle and market-research "Eupremia," revise "Love Story."
- Hang giant paper crane.
- Send camera in for repairs.
- Attempt to look at apartments for myself and possible roommate irene_adler. Email her about what I find.
- Find if there are dentists in the area that use my dental insurance. Schedule appointment.
- Find out information about Scottish Dancing from gallian. Find suitable skirt for said dancing.
- Go shopping for clothes.
- Research cellphones. Realize that getting one before I move is a bad idea.
- Catch up on livejournal. Do something for paperspace and finish big post on terminology and definitions for next_of_kin.
- Call A. and lotusbiosm.
- Use free museum pass.
- Email people who teach self-defense skills to girls to ask if I can volunteer.
- Meet woman who plays glass harmonica on streetcorner.. Order her CD.
- Email Bryn Mawr archives about incredibly esoteric Mawrter reference I found in a YA novel to see just how good the author's research was.

I even got to stuff that wasn't on the list. All in all, not bad for one weekend.
I really like fall.

Comments

[foleyartist1.livejournal.com]

Damn you're good!

Now I feel like a total underachiever...

[eredien]

Please note that the most time intensive things or the hardest things (save two) were not checked off.

And I also got a pretty nasty cold.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

... I brought home Phoebe Gloeckner and left it lying about without a warning label, didn't I. Sorry. Usually I put a Post-It on the cover of that one reading 'Depressing as all get-out', or something to that effect. Her adolescence is my adolescence is her adolescence is my adolescence... I try to only check that out of the library every two years or so, by the way, as having it about is generally an indication that my mental state is not the greatest and does not help make that state better, but it's also the best book at reminding me of high school and the reasons I must not forget high school ever.

[eredien]

It's currently near the piano if you want to read it.

I thought it was excellent. Yes, depressing, but not bad enough (near enough my experience) to cause me to go into whimpering anguish mode.

Am so glad highschool was not quite like that for me.

hey

[(Anonymous)]

hey, whats up? It's Farrah, I haven't been able to keep in touch with anyone that much, and saw that evelyn had written something referencing u, so i thought i'd say hi. let me know what your up to, what email address you're using, what you're up to, and exactly where u r (in the boston area)....etc etc..... take care... drop me a line

Re: hey

[eredien]

Er, hi! I called you a zillion times before I left NY but never heard back so I'm glad to hear from you now.

I'm in Cambridge. More later in an email.

[a4yroldfaerie.livejournal.com]

which YA book?

[eredien]

"The Dark Secret of Weatherend," by John Bellairs. Very fun, fast reads, and scary.

mirrormask

[plh16.livejournal.com]

I've been patiently waiting for it's release. That looked awsome. And of course it's the same people who did Labyrinth so i am sooo happy. Email me more about it.

*hugs*

Re: mirrormask

[eredien]

It's beautiful, and creepy, and I will post more about it later. Try and see if it's showing in Syracuse. It probabably won't be, but the hour drive would be really worth it.

[syonakeleste.livejournal.com]

How are you enjoying Paladin of Souls? I'm also reading it for the first time right now.

[eredien]

I'm about halfway through. I think it's very good, although a quirk of dialouge of one of the characters just threw me out of suspension of disbelief.

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

"Mythago Wood" was written by one of your teachers? I read that book, or skimmed it, rather, standing in a library somewhere. Maybe I should look for it.

[eredien]

Oh, no, I wish...though I would have been terrified.
A HA is a Hall Advisor, not a professor.

I had a copy years ago, I think, and think it's the book I'm looking for. I was too young to read it the first time around though I knew it was brilliant writing. For years I was under the impression it was DeLint instead and drove myself crazy going through all his anthologies looking for a story that wasn't there.

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

Aww, I'm on the list!. I had company this weekend, so it would have been a bad time to call. But tonight's good, if you like. Actually, any night but Tuesday is good.

[eredien]

I will call sometime this week, yah? I knew you had company so that's why I didn't.

[kaypendragon.livejournal.com]

Seeing as you're the resident English major, can I add the plea on my LJ to next weekend's list o' stuff?
~Laurel