Just a body made of glass

[sovay]

selkie sent me a T-shirt for my birthday. (Mine is in royal blue.) I wore it to this morning's doctor's appointment; it seemed appropriate. It is gratifying and probably a little sad that the nurse practitioner who wore a pride flag pin on his lanyard agreed with me.

The contractors have not only demolished our front porch except for the steps, which are currently floating in a sort of diagonal void of wrought iron, they have uprooted almost our entire front yard. I had just been feeling affectionate about the lamb's ears at the bottom of the walk. It's really not the same thing to pet in passing the chunks of cement which used to be our porch's foundations. Nothing had better happen to the two tall yew trees which used to flank the porch and still shade our front windows. Autolycus is currently peering over one of them, sitting on a stack of boxes to observe the concrete-pouring action outside my office windows. Brave cat. I am living in earplugs.

Further adventures in radio theater include Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance (1893), recorded by L.A. Theatre Works in 1995. It was one of the plays I had known on the page for decades and never seen or heard performed—see also most of the works of George Bernard Shaw—and man, that double standard remains demoralizingly topical. thisbluespirit has just hooked me up with a collection of Terence Rattigan per BBC Radio and I am looking forward very much to finally hearing the alternative version of Separate Tables.

First, I must move more boxes.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

That is a glorious T-shirt and I'm really sorry you have cause to wear it.

Did anyone warn you about the upcoming churning up of the porch and garden? meep.

Maybe a chunk of concrete will turn out to be cousin to a Horta.

[davidgillon]

Oh, I do like that teeshirt. Over and above the symbology, the juxtaposition of message and rainbow colours is usefully jarring.

I am living in earplugs

Sympathy. My neighbour was doing something involving a compressor all last Thursday, while I was trying to sleep through sinus headache/headcold (and having not slept through the night). I was very NOT AMUSED.

(I was also not amused when I woke up at 6AM today and could hear someone using a compressor, though after a few minutes I realised it was more probably my central heating *headdesk*).

[aurumcalendula]

The contractors have not only demolished our front porch except for the steps, which are currently floating in a sort of diagonal void of wrought iron, they have uprooted almost our entire front yard.

Oh dear!

[gwynnega]

I love that t-shirt, though I wish you had no reason to wear it. (I wonder if there's a vertigo-themed one?)

[choco_frosh]

That is a really excellent t-shirt, except for the bit where nor you nor anyone should need it ever.

[oracne]

Sympathies on the noise and disruption.

[ethelmay]

Have I told you about my dad meeting Terence Rattigan?

[thisbluespirit]

[personal profile] thisbluespirit has just hooked me up with a collection of Terence Rattigan per BBC Radio and I am looking forward very much to finally hearing the alternative version of Separate Tables.

I am coming back in time from your other post, so I know that you have been able to do so, but I'm glad to be able to enable. <3

(Librarian motto, still. XD)