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I have not been writing a lot in lj lately, which is just as well; sometime during this past month all my energies suddenly flipped over into full-out writing mode and I'm working on that now instead.

Things read:
Watership Down, again, in mourning (my cat). I am dangerous to be around after reading this book, as my brain works in patterns closer to its normal state for a while before I reacclimate myself to currently acceptable behaviors/thought-patterns.

The first issue of Jabberwocky.

Buddha, volume 7, Osamu Tezuka.

A lot of Spider Robinson, for lightness.

The Book of the Bear. Hope Mirless, ed. My winter holiday present from rushthatspeaks and gaudior. Lovely. I will one day sit down with the fairytale-toned, archaic, calligraphic Cyrillic and retranslate for sense instead of rhyme and meter; at that point I will also record the tune on my MIDI keyboard and put all of the lot online.

A book which I can't believe I got to hold, much less read all of: Songs of Sword and Blossom, which is in raxvulpine's keeping. A real treasure of a thing; woodblock prints and bilingual haiku and dear God, the original cover. Not to mention the tanka.

Things currently being written:
The sestina, which got a new and more perfect second stanza after I lost the first perfect one.
The Fey Novel, which has once again started to insert itself into my dreams.
"A Queer, Old-Fashioned Dance" [working title]

Things currently on the back burner:
"City of the Dead" [working title]
"Thirty Days," which is wanting a different form than the one it is currently in.
"Downtown Transations," which is not its title anymore, but "the one with the serifs bubbling up from his lips, thick and tar-black," is too long.
The C.S. Lewis scholarly essay regarding children's television and blasphemy.

Things my brain wants me to do this weekend:
Write

Things I must do this weekend or my housemates will be greatly distressed:
Look for apartments
Sleep
Clean out refrigerators
Clean bathrooms
Laundry

Things that I have to do this weekend:
All of the previous
Email psyedtonne
Pick up prescription from pharmacy
Reserve hotel for con, email congoers to this effect
Check validity of Florida trip dates with sister
Everything on the list I made at work
Go to LARP

Best thing seen on way to work this week:
A construction worker had draped a large yellow towel over the outstretched arm of the large Alexander Calder 'stabile' sculpture which is on the front lawn of the art museum. Voila; instant huge abstract metal waiter.

Stupidest quote read in daily free paper which I pick up on my way to work:
Actress currently playing Juliet in a local production of Romeo & Juliet, under the comment "Shakespeare is tough:" "The iambic pentameter is actually the rhythm that we speak nowadays in life--it's a natural rhythm. But it can be scary because nouns and verbs are in strange places, past tense and present tense in the same place."

To her credit, she did also say that it was beautiful and eventually "can come naturally."

But.
What's this "nowadays?" They spoke English in Shakespeare's day, too.
The bit with the tenses...just hurts.

The article would have been acceptable, but I think that the paragraph ruins the article by alienating most of the potential audience for the article and the play. The "Shakespeare is tough" bit eliminates the crowd of people who weren't rabid theatre fans but who were thinking "I should go to the theatre more, maybe..." and the quote turns off the people who like Elizabethan drama.

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[sovay]

A construction worker had draped a large yellow towel over the outstretched arm of the large Alexander Calder 'stabile' sculpture which is on the front lawn of the art museum. Voila; instant huge abstract metal waiter.

That is truly awesome.