Like you, I contradict the night

[sovay]

I think yesterday's Hanukkah party went very well. There were conversations between interesting people, two small children being cats, and latkes all over the place; there were not enough chairs, but fortunately there was a living room. eredien arrived with a recipe for vegan latkes. captainbutler gave me a copy of All About Eve (1950), which he had screened for me a few weeks ago. fleurdelis28 found out that Leonard Nimoy is one of the actors in Lights (1983), although not the one who voices Alexander the Great. Other usual and unusual suspects circulated. There may be photographs. (There are still photographs from Thanksgiving and Vancouver.)

Otherwise I am a little fragmented; I have not slept more than two hours a night since—Thursday? I still managed to dream last night that a friend told me they loved me, but they were telling me in a dream because in waking life it was impossible.

Happy birthday, Dave Brubeck! I am watching a documentary about you on TCM and it's terrific.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

In my mind the children are being cats and the cats are being latkes, and then the latkes--the vegan ones--are being children. Surely when Sovay and her family are gathered together, such transformations (and others) are commonplace.

I'm hoping your spell of hardly-any-sleep may one day soon be broken, or at least that you get respite.

[sovay]

In my mind the children are being cats and the cats are being latkes, and then the latkes--the vegan ones--are being children.

I can see that illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, in a book by Eric Kimmel: tumbling up and down the margins of a Hanukkah tale.

I'm hoping your spell of hardly-any-sleep may one day soon be broken, or at least that you get respite.

Thank you. I'm trying.