Sunny Lazy Day
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eredienWent to W. and E's engagement party last night. Wound up talking with many new and old friends; any party where people spontaneously break into four-part harmony is fine with me. Had excellent writing day; 1 haiku was properly punctuated (time to properly write haiku: 25 minutes. Time to properly punctuate haiku: 1 hour) and had lovely conversation with rush-that-speaks and gaudior about influences, fantasy, Faerie.
Decided that my Faerie is two things: sitting in a warm, dim-lit, fireplace room, watching the cold and snow blow under the hedgerows and settle softly; also that it is the feeling one gets after reading a book that you are afraid of--you shudder, throw it against the wall, tiptoe in a wide circle around where it landed, don't get the courage to pick it up for a week.
The first is not nearly as cozy as it should be: there is no sound, and you can feel the leak of cold into the room through the panes.
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Today, a LARP. I am glad it is the last one of the semester, because I have been feeling like a bad LARPer--and, by extension, a bad storyteller--this past semester. Perhaps LARPS just aren't my style--though I do love acting out characters, and I think I might miss that.
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Did not buy the huge omnibus edition of Peake's Gormenghast novels with tipped-in plates of the author's sketches and brilliant critical essays in the back even though I had a bookstore discount; eventually will give in and sell vols. 1 and 3 on Amazon or abebooks to fund my addiction.
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Very much in a stay-in-and-write mood though it is finally a brilliant and gorgeous spring day outside and I need to unpack my books at least, and possibly plant flowers in a window-box, and other things.
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Should review the following books I have read in the past month:
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Adam's Navel
The Elements of Typography
Life is So Good
The short story Winterfair Gifts
The handbook on the care and feeding of Guinea Pigs
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Books I need to finish reading:
Paperweight, Stephen Fry
House of Leaves
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
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Summer reading project:
The Brothers Karamazov
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Summer life project:
Balance
Writing
Decided that my Faerie is two things: sitting in a warm, dim-lit, fireplace room, watching the cold and snow blow under the hedgerows and settle softly; also that it is the feeling one gets after reading a book that you are afraid of--you shudder, throw it against the wall, tiptoe in a wide circle around where it landed, don't get the courage to pick it up for a week.
The first is not nearly as cozy as it should be: there is no sound, and you can feel the leak of cold into the room through the panes.
--
Today, a LARP. I am glad it is the last one of the semester, because I have been feeling like a bad LARPer--and, by extension, a bad storyteller--this past semester. Perhaps LARPS just aren't my style--though I do love acting out characters, and I think I might miss that.
--
Did not buy the huge omnibus edition of Peake's Gormenghast novels with tipped-in plates of the author's sketches and brilliant critical essays in the back even though I had a bookstore discount; eventually will give in and sell vols. 1 and 3 on Amazon or abebooks to fund my addiction.
--
Very much in a stay-in-and-write mood though it is finally a brilliant and gorgeous spring day outside and I need to unpack my books at least, and possibly plant flowers in a window-box, and other things.
--
Should review the following books I have read in the past month:
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Adam's Navel
The Elements of Typography
Life is So Good
The short story Winterfair Gifts
The handbook on the care and feeding of Guinea Pigs
--
Books I need to finish reading:
Paperweight, Stephen Fry
House of Leaves
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
--
Summer reading project:
The Brothers Karamazov
--
Summer life project:
Balance
Writing