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Feb. 14th, 2007 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidUpcoming filminess of interest: Flatland, Persepolis, Abarat and The Lions of al-Rassan. Of course, they're all movies based on books that I like, so they may frustrate me if they end up being only tangentially related to the book (a la Howl's Moving Castle, which I might've liked more had it been called something else entirely). Hope springs eternal, so I'll likely end up at all of them.
Given that the islands of the Abarat are always one time (7 A.M., midnight, whenever), how can there be history? How do you describe the passage of time when there isn't any. Except that things do happen in some kind of sequence; how is that dealt with?
I walked in to work today. I was a little off my usual pace, but otherwise it was mostly unremarkable. A little sliding in the snow, much avoiding of brown slush thrown up by passing cars. Oh, and lots of overheating, partly due to double socks (I wore the Limmers, and two socks is a good idea with them, even though my feet are apparently larger than they used to be) and double hats (one for warmth, one for its brim, necessary for the spectacled when walking in precipitous weather), and partly due to using slightly different muscles than usual. I didn't want to divest anything, though, since the layer underneath would then get wet. I sweat enough that I'm glad to have a spare T-shirt at work.
One annoyance: the T has blocked off the route I usually take under the Red line at MGH, so I had to walk around. The pedestrian pathways around there really annoy me already; someone has only thought about people going to/from the T, rather than through foot traffic. (Anyone looking at the Boston end of the Longfellow Bridge sidewalks can see that there's no assumption people will walk off the bridge onto the streets, rather than to the exercise paths along the river.)
Even though it's not my holiday, being alone while the world trumpets the glories of being partnered (ok, in a commercial way that's annoying and not what I'd want a relationship to require) is not a happy thing, bringing out my inner curmudgeon. I am blessed with other kinds of love, but it can be hard to hold onto that sometimes.
Reminder to self: sufficient sleep and lots of veggies give me lots more spoons and a much better outlook. Too many low-quality carbs, not so much.
I shoveled a couple of inches of snow before heading in this morning. It was already sleeting by the time I finished, so I worried I'd come back to a sheet of ice, despite the ice melt, but it changed to snow again as I walked. I'd rather have snow under the ice, if we're bound to get ice: it's a lot easier to clear, and having the give of something underneath (if it's not cleared) makes footing less treacherous.
Given that the islands of the Abarat are always one time (7 A.M., midnight, whenever), how can there be history? How do you describe the passage of time when there isn't any. Except that things do happen in some kind of sequence; how is that dealt with?
I walked in to work today. I was a little off my usual pace, but otherwise it was mostly unremarkable. A little sliding in the snow, much avoiding of brown slush thrown up by passing cars. Oh, and lots of overheating, partly due to double socks (I wore the Limmers, and two socks is a good idea with them, even though my feet are apparently larger than they used to be) and double hats (one for warmth, one for its brim, necessary for the spectacled when walking in precipitous weather), and partly due to using slightly different muscles than usual. I didn't want to divest anything, though, since the layer underneath would then get wet. I sweat enough that I'm glad to have a spare T-shirt at work.
One annoyance: the T has blocked off the route I usually take under the Red line at MGH, so I had to walk around. The pedestrian pathways around there really annoy me already; someone has only thought about people going to/from the T, rather than through foot traffic. (Anyone looking at the Boston end of the Longfellow Bridge sidewalks can see that there's no assumption people will walk off the bridge onto the streets, rather than to the exercise paths along the river.)
Even though it's not my holiday, being alone while the world trumpets the glories of being partnered (ok, in a commercial way that's annoying and not what I'd want a relationship to require) is not a happy thing, bringing out my inner curmudgeon. I am blessed with other kinds of love, but it can be hard to hold onto that sometimes.
Reminder to self: sufficient sleep and lots of veggies give me lots more spoons and a much better outlook. Too many low-quality carbs, not so much.
I shoveled a couple of inches of snow before heading in this morning. It was already sleeting by the time I finished, so I worried I'd come back to a sheet of ice, despite the ice melt, but it changed to snow again as I walked. I'd rather have snow under the ice, if we're bound to get ice: it's a lot easier to clear, and having the give of something underneath (if it's not cleared) makes footing less treacherous.
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Date: 2007-02-14 04:31 pm (UTC)*ahem*
I'm okay now. I just really like that book. And hopefully the movie will be good.
I'm always excited when GGK publishes something new. :)
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Date: 2007-02-14 04:38 pm (UTC)Have you read Ysabel yet? (It just came out.) Very different sort of novel for him, being more in the here-now. It works, though.
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Date: 2007-02-14 06:38 pm (UTC)He really likes the sacrifice theme.
I have to order a whole bunch of books on Moses and Judaism for my PhD soon from Amazon, so I'll add that to the list.
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Date: 2007-02-14 06:53 pm (UTC)Last Light was the most recent novel before this (he also published a book of poetry, but I don't assume novel-readers are poetry-readers (I'm mostly not about the poetry, fr'instance).
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Date: 2007-02-14 06:08 pm (UTC)I wish I had time to shovel this morning. I hope my landlord stops by and does it when he plows our driveway.
Oh! This was the first week I didn't get a Boston Organics leaflet. I hope they aren't setting a precedent!
Lots of spinach- I have 3 weeks worth of it. Maybe I'll make some spinach-cheese burekas.
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Date: 2007-02-14 06:59 pm (UTC)I didn't get up as early as I'd planned to shovel, but there wouldn't've been as much to shovel had I started sooner, so I guess it's a wash. My work is flexible enough about start times (especially when there's weather) that I didn't have a problem taking the extra 15 minutes to shovel and put pellets down. You, however, have a landlord, and it's officially his responsibility...
If I get a leaflet, I'll check if there's anything new (other than the usual "hard to get X stuff", "you can order Y", and "have a recipe".
Mmmm... spinach. Double mmmmm.... bourekas. I ate far more than my share of bourekas in Israel (especially the little potato ones; so addicting). Other spinach-y ideas: a spinach pie, spinach in soup, spinach with pasta (put in the water a minute or two before draining), spinach salad (with citrus, perhaps).
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Date: 2007-02-14 10:54 pm (UTC)I was going to work from home today, but I had a meeting I thought was at 10 (which was actually at 11) that I wanted to be in the room for. Then I had a conference call 1-2 that ran until 3:45. I left work to drive home at 3:30 because I wanted to be home before dark and I had another conference call at 4-5. Which ended at 5:50. Good thing I didn't wait at work....
Nice snow day! :-) I wonder if it's the only, or just the first, storm of the winter...
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Date: 2007-02-15 12:38 am (UTC)I'm glad you made it home safely; tonight's just going to get worse. And I'm really not looking forward to tomorrow's commute.
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Date: 2007-02-15 12:48 am (UTC)Oh wait that's not quite what you said. ;-)
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Date: 2007-02-15 01:30 am (UTC)And I'd really like LJ to let me post already; 2.5 hours is too long to wait for the truly addicted...
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Date: 2007-02-15 02:10 am (UTC)Also: much hatred towards the hostile indifference shown by every fucking traffic and transit planner/organizer/builder in Boston and surrounds.
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Date: 2007-02-15 02:27 am (UTC)And ditto, doubled. You might think that with all the major money they're pouring into redoing the Charles/MGH stop (almost none of it on the actual platform, where people stand outside (some of it still without any roof at all)), there might be consideration of the intersection as a whole, but that was far too much to expect.