It's such a strange job, playing blackjack on the deck

[sovay]

Yesterday was very full of doctors. Afterward I fell over. Today has been spent mostly in the same mode. It's very frustrating. I spent this entire month so exhausted that I had run out of clever ways to describe it even before I got sick. I don't seem to have any kind of energy at all. I did have things I'd like to be doing.

Courtesy of dhampyresa: sunflower_auction, a fanworks auction raising funds for humanitarian aid in Ukraine.

Courtesy of yhlee: World Unite for Ukraine, an international fundraiser partnered with the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation.

I am for the third year a tradition on classicist Tumblr. I have also been incorporated into a collage. I feel like I have a legacy. This ghost poem I did not write for Lucan is also pretty great.

I loved Winifred Holtby's South Riding (1936) and now have a much harder time taking the ending of the film, with apologies to Ralph Richardson, at all seriously.

The explosively fuchsia ground cover that looked from a distance like a shag carpet crossed with a baking soda volcano turned out to be phlox.

Comments

[troisoiseaux]

I loved Winifred Holtby's South Riding (1936)

I snagged a copy of this at a second-hand bookstore the other day, since I remembered you'd posted about it! I'm not sure when I'll get around to reading it, but I look forward to doing so.

[mrissa]

I too, I ordered one!

[sovay]

I too, I ordered one!

There are some elements I think you specifically will like very much.

[sovay]

I snagged a copy of this at a second-hand bookstore the other day, since I remembered you'd posted about it!

Oh, cool! Enjoy whenever!

[aurumcalendula]

*hugs*

Ooh phlox! (I need to get some next time I'm buying flowers)

[sovay]

Ooh phlox! (I need to get some next time I'm buying flowers)

*hugs*

I may end up planting some on the other side of the front steps for my mother. It's extremely assertive.

[asakiyume]

Best description of phlox ever!

Congratulations, you institution, you!

May May be 100 percent less crowded with doctors.

[sovay]

May May be 100 percent less crowded with doctors.

Thank you! As well as for the other two!

*hugs*

[gwynnega]

Beautiful phlox!

[sovay]

Beautiful phlox!

I saw it from the other side of the street and had to investigate.

[thawrecka]

Very pretty flowers!

[sovay]

Very pretty flowers!

I photographed them without knowing what they were and researched when I got home.

[thisbluespirit]

I'm sorry about all the doctors (but not Doctors, which might have been even more stressful, but at least more entertaining), and about the falling over. ♥

Those are beautiful flowers, and also I am glad you enjoyed South Riding! (As I think I said before, I cannot remember much about it, but enough to suggest I probably should have read it later and appreciated it more.)

[sovay]

I'm sorry about all the doctors (but not Doctors, which might have been even more stressful, but at least more entertaining), and about the falling over.

*hugs*

Depending on what happened with the Doctors, it might have been pleasantly distracting! (I would also have settled for an era with really good medicine.)

Those are beautiful flowers, and also I am glad you enjoyed South Riding! (As I think I said before, I cannot remember much about it, but enough to suggest I probably should have read it later and appreciated it more.)

Thank you! I think it is funny that the novel has existed for so long, I was almost unaware of it until a couple of weeks ago, and now it may be important to me.

[dhampyresa]

Congrats on being a tradition!

[sovay]

Congrats on being a tradition!

Thank you! It remains amazing to me. It feels like a real thing.