And Hades has the medicine that he keeps down on the floor

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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 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 . . .)

Comments

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the ChiZine acceptance!

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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Congratulations on the ChiZine acceptance!

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.