Lawrence of Arabia inspired both the ninja girl and Little Springtime to create cartoons. (The ninja girl's is here and Little Springtime actually created two, but here's one.)
Lawrence is a sun-god in the last downturn of his myth, Phaethon. No one is going to fish him up and put him back together. The match is blown out. That's a marvelous image and analysis--I'll show the girls; I bet they'll agree.
Your Hannukah party sounds awesome--what a collection of wonderful people. Mention of Hannukah parties, though, makes me recall that yesterday, through supreme social cluelessness, I managed to corner this poor guy I know into inviting me to *his* Hannukah party. Ouf, I felt like an idiot.** And then when I was telling the story to my kids, Little Springtime did a facepalm and revealed that in school, before it let out, she had been guilty of almost precisely the same social awkwardness with this guy's son (who is in her grade)--which maybe explains why this guy said, "And bring Little Springtime along."
I am so tired, I feel like I'm hallucinating. I've experienced this--I've actually hallucinated a little when extremely sleepy (very, very dull hallucinations, but in dangerous circumstances, such that I vowed never again to be so sleepy in those circumstances again), and other times, I've had the slipping-in-and-out of consciousness thing, where it's hard to tell when you're dreaming and when you're awake. You know the other day when you mapped your train of thought? Well, I've wanted to map the journey into dreaming, and getting very, very tired seems like a way to do it... one moment you're typing on LJ, next moment you're in a dream... if you could map where the mind goes, each step of the way, it would be fascinating.
**ETA something for the asterisks to refer to. Originally I was going to tell another tangential story, but... I get tired of the sound of my own voice, even just in print.
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Lawrence is a sun-god in the last downturn of his myth, Phaethon. No one is going to fish him up and put him back together. The match is blown out. That's a marvelous image and analysis--I'll show the girls; I bet they'll agree.
Your Hannukah party sounds awesome--what a collection of wonderful people. Mention of Hannukah parties, though, makes me recall that yesterday, through supreme social cluelessness, I managed to corner this poor guy I know into inviting me to *his* Hannukah party. Ouf, I felt like an idiot.** And then when I was telling the story to my kids, Little Springtime did a facepalm and revealed that in school, before it let out, she had been guilty of almost precisely the same social awkwardness with this guy's son (who is in her grade)--which maybe explains why this guy said, "And bring Little Springtime along."
I am so tired, I feel like I'm hallucinating. I've experienced this--I've actually hallucinated a little when extremely sleepy (very, very dull hallucinations, but in dangerous circumstances, such that I vowed never again to be so sleepy in those circumstances again), and other times, I've had the slipping-in-and-out of consciousness thing, where it's hard to tell when you're dreaming and when you're awake. You know the other day when you mapped your train of thought? Well, I've wanted to map the journey into dreaming, and getting very, very tired seems like a way to do it... one moment you're typing on LJ, next moment you're in a dream... if you could map where the mind goes, each step of the way, it would be fascinating.
**ETA something for the asterisks to refer to. Originally I was going to tell another tangential story, but... I get tired of the sound of my own voice, even just in print.