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And Hades has the medicine that he keeps down on the floor
Today: spent almost entirely at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. I made pilgrimage to the glass flowers and the Kronosaurus; I saw the new exhibits on evolution and color; I took badly pixellated pictures of their two specimens of taaffeite with my cellphone, which only wishes it were a camera. I am hoping next week to visit the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, especially as I now have a membership to the whole complex. I have decided I need more museums in my daily life.
Evening: spent with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rax and eredien, who fed me grilled corn and rosewater muffins and showed me Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977), which I had somehow missed in my otherwise acceptably warped childhood. I don't quite know how my brain took it. I'm still processing the fact that I found it weirder than Edward Gorey's The Curious Sofa.
Tonight: my poem "Phersipnai" has been accepted by ChiZine. It is my first sale there.
I call this a good day.
(Tomorrow, I work on the kitchen a lot. But then Eric and I drive down to Providence to hear Birdsongs of the Mesozoic withgreygirlbeast and humglum, so I predict it will be all right. And at some point, I am assured, we will be able to cook upstairs again . . .)
Evening: spent with
rax and eredien, who fed me grilled corn and rosewater muffins and showed me Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977), which I had somehow missed in my otherwise acceptably warped childhood. I don't quite know how my brain took it. I'm still processing the fact that I found it weirder than Edward Gorey's The Curious Sofa.Tonight: my poem "Phersipnai" has been accepted by ChiZine. It is my first sale there.
I call this a good day.
(Tomorrow, I work on the kitchen a lot. But then Eric and I drive down to Providence to hear Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with
greygirlbeast and humglum, so I predict it will be all right. And at some point, I am assured, we will be able to cook upstairs again . . .)
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--and it's doubly refractive, whatever that means. (It makes two sets of rainbows?)
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It was discovered by Edward Charles Richard Taaffe, who is some kind of very distant cousin; mostly he was a gemologist and the grandson of Eduard Graf Taaffe, twice Minister-President of Austria. My family has no titles. Even if we had, the Anglo-Irish titles were revoked in 1917 and the Austrian ones disappeared in 1920. This did not stop my paternal grandfather, I am told, from styling himself as an aristocrat until he died. In any case, there is in this world a mineral with my name on it, even if I did nothing to deserve it.
I should go back with an actual camera. The single crystal is a dark violet; the rough specimen is a greyish green.
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Apologies for the huge pictures! I was editing them smaller when you replied. Next time, preview is my friend.
(I think it's cool, too.)
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Anyway, I'll call you about Boston plans sometime today. Probably while you're in the midst of laying linoleum.
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I will attempt to provide a report!
Probably while you're in the midst of laying linoleum.
Heh. I will take you as my excuse.
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I've never heard of either Halloween Is Grinch Night or The Curious Sofa. But then so much of what you offer in posts is new to me, which is why I should save every one of your posts. :)
Glad you're enjoying the museums. I wish our Chicago museums were a little closer and more accessible--both in commute and expense. Memberships are definitely the way to go.
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Thank you!
I wish our Chicago museums were a little closer and more accessible--both in commute and expense. Memberships are definitely the way to go.
Maybe you should build in museum time once a month, or something. You can call it writing-research.
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Anyway, have fun in Providence.
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Yes! It was very, very strange.
Congrats on getting into ChiZine!
Thank you!
Have I seen Phersipnai?
It was written in late April, a few days after "Phersu." You should be able to find it; if not, I will gladly e-mail a copy to you.
Anyway, have fun in Providence.
I plan on it!
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Whose music? Nice.
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Here's all the information plus a clever review:
http://www.mantlermusic.com/Records/Rec_comp/Rec_comp_sgles/hapless.htm
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I hope today has also been a good day, that the kitchen refit goes well, and that you enjoy the concert and all the rest in Providence.
And it's cool that there's a mineral named for your distant relative.
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Thank you!
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Nine
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Hee. Thanks!