All of this could be so beautiful—it wouldn't take a lot
I do not appreciate coming down sick just in time for a hurricane, not to mention an audition. Then again, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch is the person who gets to call the dentist at the crack of dawn tomorrow after calling a regular doctor at the crack of dawn today. We would like a refund on our physical embodiments since Wednesday.
1. I forgot to mention yesterday that my birthday fried oysters contained two tiny, grey-mottled pearls. I found them by biting down on them, but neither broke. Please tell the Atlantic I love them. I have placed them on the bookshelf beside the lime-green rubber tentacle I got last summer at NecronomiCon.
2.yhlee sketched me a mermaid with poetry!
3. My IOU DVD from my brother arrived. It is Small Town Crime (2017). I am delighted. The picture of the protagonist on the packaging continues to look disproportionately badass, as opposed to sort of elfinly hungover.
I liked the part of my afternoon where I walked down a street covered in windblown leaves like scraps of gold tissue paper. It would have been even nicer if a medium-sized lake had not been dropping out of the sky onto me at the time.
P.S. I forgot it was National Coming Out Day. I am interested in people. I suspect this is not news.
spatch is the person who gets to call the dentist at the crack of dawn tomorrow after calling a regular doctor at the crack of dawn today. We would like a refund on our physical embodiments since Wednesday.1. I forgot to mention yesterday that my birthday fried oysters contained two tiny, grey-mottled pearls. I found them by biting down on them, but neither broke. Please tell the Atlantic I love them. I have placed them on the bookshelf beside the lime-green rubber tentacle I got last summer at NecronomiCon.
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yhlee sketched me a mermaid with poetry!3. My IOU DVD from my brother arrived. It is Small Town Crime (2017). I am delighted. The picture of the protagonist on the packaging continues to look disproportionately badass, as opposed to sort of elfinly hungover.
I liked the part of my afternoon where I walked down a street covered in windblown leaves like scraps of gold tissue paper. It would have been even nicer if a medium-sized lake had not been dropping out of the sky onto me at the time.
P.S. I forgot it was National Coming Out Day. I am interested in people. I suspect this is not news.
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Oh wow, pearls! Glad they didn't break your teeth!!
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Thank you! I am going to try to go to bed early tonight. It's good weather for it.
Oh wow, pearls! Glad they didn't break your teeth!!
I'm glad I didn't swallow them!
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Rub the widest face of the pearl against the edge of a tooth. Grittiness accompanies a genuine article.
https://www.thepearlsource.com/blog/what-is-the-%e2%80%98tooth-test%e2%80%99-and-can-it-help-you-tell-if-a-pearl-is-real/
I hope your living spaces remained dry.
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I just learned that from a Raymond Chandler short story!
I hope your living spaces remained dry.
They did, thank you. We live on the second floor, so flooding even from heavy rain is not an issue, but we weren't sure if the power would go out. It does occasionally for no more reason than that it feels like it.
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But it feels like DYING. *shuddersssss*
(I got to show Child this bit of lore when you sent them their heirloom.)
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Thank you. I am coughing and I have to sing on Saturday! Come on, immune system. For once.
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No, that sucks. I hope your immune system does indeed come through in the clutch. (Is that even the phrase?)
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It is! Although I'm not sure if it's a variant of "come through in a pinch" or if it has its own etymology. I don't think it's a car metaphor.
Thank you.
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Child is outing us continually, all the time, forever, by living in the world, but I remain slightly uncertain what I'm being outed as. A parent is just a person in orbit of a child, and doesn't have an identity much beyond that in most situations.
So I use the same word for myself as I've used since middle school, and remain less than gruntled that there doesn't seem to be a word for my shade of attraction, which is to say, I seem to be hit mercilessly and directly by the arrows of people at the edge of gender or who've disavowed it as a thing. "Lots of the people I date transition, and the rest make a "...gender?" face" doesn't have a flag.
Edit: Unless it's a different flavor of sick, I think it's more accurate to say you maybe never stopped being sick from the last time, it just receded for your birthday and the sea because it didn't want to get murked up and kicked out of your system for sheer cheek and ingratitude. I am sorry, though.
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I like that.
So I use the same word for myself as I've used since middle school, and remain less than gruntled that there doesn't seem to be a word for my shade of attraction, which is to say, I seem to be hit mercilessly and directly by the arrows of people at the edge of gender or who've disavowed it as a thing. "Lots of the people I date transition, and the rest make a "...gender?" face" doesn't have a flag.
"'There's not a name for a lot of things,' he said. 'Doesn't mean they don't still exist.'" —Sonya Taaffe, "All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts" (2016)
Edit: Unless it's a different flavor of sick, I think it's more accurate to say you maybe never stopped being sick from the last time, it just receded for your birthday and the sea because it didn't want to get murked up and kicked out of your system for sheer cheek and ingratitude. I am sorry, though.
Thank you. I am pretty sure it's a new sick: it came on very suddenly as a scratchy sore throat yesterday morning and by last night we were in full coughing, congestion mode, which is absolutely what I need to audition for a Yiddish chorus tomorrow afternoon. I am drinking all the hot water with honey.
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Ugh, so sorry you're still ill. Sick + hurricane + singing seem together like too much for real life; also like good ingredients for a ballad?
(I am, by the way, enjoying your book very much.)
I like that post a lot.
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I feel really flattered. I've gotten tiny pearls from mussels before, but I think oysters are new.
Ugh, so sorry you're still ill. Sick + hurricane + singing seem together like too much for real life; also like good ingredients for a ballad?
I'm not sure if the way I sound right now would lull a storm or just raise it further . . .
(I am, by the way, enjoying your book very much.)
I'm so glad!
I like that post a lot.
Thank you.
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Feel better soon.
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I don't think I even knew it was a holiday until the last couple of years. It's interesting to see how people observe it or not.
Feel better soon.
Thank you.
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I believe was some of the theory behind the black-and-white Mad Max: Fury Road.
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As we know from Virginia Sea Wolf, a crucial thing for any mer-writer!