I hear the tales of both cities, of light pockets and heavy hearts
Between catching up on unexpected sleep and dealing with equally unexpected stress, I feel most of my week worked out to a kind of null state where I'm not sure what I got done beyond my job and re-reading three-fifths of the Chronicles of Prydain, but this afternoon it is still snowing as it should be in New England around this time of year and ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch just got word that all his persistence with the Department of Unemployment Assistance finally, literally paid off after three months of escalating nonsense of bureaucracy, so I have decided that today, at least, is not yet fired.
spatch just got word that all his persistence with the Department of Unemployment Assistance finally, literally paid off after three months of escalating nonsense of bureaucracy, so I have decided that today, at least, is not yet fired.
no subject
I had to go into my work building for 10 minutes to grab my tahara manual for tomorrow, and it was literally and figuratively a cold shock, but now I have had a sandwich and am beginning to regain equilibrium.
no subject
It's true! And now I know what eight-bit characters look like with shadows and depth!
I had to go into my work building for 10 minutes to grab my tahara manual for tomorrow, and it was literally and figuratively a cold shock, but now I have had a sandwich and am beginning to regain equilibrium.
It is astonishing how uncomfortable I have become with the idea of being inside buildings. I wonder how long that will take to shift back. I hope it does. I can't see open-air libraries becoming a thing.
no subject
I haven't read any of The Chronicles of Prydain, which is probably a hole in my library. I have read Evangeline Walton's Island of the Mighty, and some of its imagery and thoughts have stayed with me, after hitting me in the soul when I first read the book as a late teen. Not just her turns of phrase, although many of those stayed with me; it was her understanding of human greatness and frailty that she built into all her characters. Walton seem to view no one, not even the villains, with anything but gentleness and understanding.
I've occasionally thought of re-reading the book, but have always refrained. The heartbreak and tragedy were so much for me when I was younger that I've always suspected it would tear at my heart even more now that I'm older.
no subject
Thank you! In fact, it did not catch on fire or need to be seen to the door!
The heartbreak and tragedy were so much for me when I was younger that I've always suspected it would tear at my heart even more now that I'm older.
I have never read any of Walton's Mabinogion, although I have seen copies in libraries and used book stores throughout my life. I will take this description under advisement.
They have little to do with the Mabinogion beyond some names and flashes of cosmology (which Alexander acknowledges in the very first preface), but I love the Chronicles of Prydain very much.
no subject
If you ever do find time to read it, I should most definitely be interested in your thoughts, whether or not you like it, or think it good or bad.
no subject
Hmm, I haven't revisited Prydain for quite some time.
P.
no subject
Thank you!
Hmm, I haven't revisited Prydain for quite some time.
Still holds up. I can't count how many times I have read the books and I still notice new things about them every time around, including this one.
no subject
no subject
Thank you!
no subject
Oh, HURRAY! ^_^
no subject
Thank you!
no subject
no subject
It was nuts! This is the same bureaucracy that necessitated the damn near Christmas miracle of Christmas Eve.
no subject
Bravo,
And how lovely to re-read a beloved series by a snowy window. I hope there was hot chocolate with goats milk.
Nine
no subject
It's more or less literally life-saving!
And how lovely to re-read a beloved series by a snowy window. I hope there was hot chocolate with goats milk.
I still can't interact much with chocolate, but there has been much goat's milk with honey.
no subject
no subject
no subject
It's so rewarding when it does, but so weird! (No take-backs, Massachusetts.)
no subject
no subject
Thank you! There was a lot of it.
no subject
no subject
Thank you. I am ready for universal basic income basically any day now.