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

[sovay]

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

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Is there a connection between you and taaffeite? It seems it's rarer than diamonds.

--and it's doubly refractive, whatever that means. (It makes two sets of rainbows?)

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Bird Songs is tonight? Sounds...cool and weird.

Anyway, I'll call you about Boston plans sometime today. Probably while you're in the midst of laying linoleum.

[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.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

When the sour-sweet wind starts a-howling, the Grinch starts a-prowling? That one? Congrats on getting into ChiZine! Have I seen Phersipnai?

Anyway, have fun in Providence.

[mrbelm.livejournal.com]

Do you know there's a album of music recorded to six Gorey stories? It's called The Hapless Child, and, if you ask nicely, I'll give you a copy.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the acceptance, and all the other things that made it a good day.

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.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

O you fine single crystal!

Nine