Whether the future's bright or we're out of luck
Yesterday I expected to do almost nothing at all. I even succeeded for most of the day. Then I watched the next installment of Millennium with
lesser_celery (who also brought over his wedding pictures, so that I could finally see some of the faces that go with his graduate school stories), and in the evening wound up at The Burren and Finale with
derspatchel (Burdick's on a weeknight locks its doors at nine o'clock on the dot! Who thought that was a good idea?), and now I have a DVD of Cold Comfort Farm (1995) and it looks like I'm going to attend the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival's 'Thon on Sunday.
Also my poem "Taking the Auspices" has been nominated for the 2012 Rhysling Award.
I'm not complaining.
Also my poem "Taking the Auspices" has been nominated for the 2012 Rhysling Award.
I'm not complaining.

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I'm very fond of Cold Comfort Farm. If I were ever to meet Ian McKellen, it would be very difficult for me to refrain from roaring certain quotes at him.
The book is one of my go-to novels for sick days: it doesn't require much by way of brains, and it's silly enough to be distracting.
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Also congratulations; I like it when awesome people storm the Rhyslings (especially when I get to help).
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Nine
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Thank you!
If I were ever to meet Ian McKellen, it would be very difficult for me to refrain from roaring certain quotes at him.
Hah! My thesis is proven.
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It was! I need days without people. But I am apparently going through a social phase, and it's nice to have enablers.
Also congratulations; I like it when awesome people storm the Rhyslings (especially when I get to help).
Thank you! (Oh?)
I hope I get to see you in the ToC . . .
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Thank you!
(I like that icon.)
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Thank you.
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It really was! Thank you!
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Yay!
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Tell us if you see something nasty in the woodshed
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Thank you!
Tell us if you see something nasty in the woodshed
I did, but I think it was played by Stephen Fry.
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Thank you.
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Thank you!
Oh, I hope so.
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By the way... French director Francois Ozon now calls Garai his muse. Well, that makes two of us. She starred in his film "Angel" - about a young eccentric British writer in the early 20th century. Highly recommended...
Congrats and good luck with your poem!
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I'm glad for the pleasant-sounding things.
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Thank you!
I'm glad for the pleasant-sounding things.
It's been—against all odds—a good week and a half.
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I love that film; it was part of the summer I discovered Bill Nighy. I rewatched it a few months ago and it was still wonderful.
Cold Comfort Farm is significantly snarkier, but I think you will like it nonetheless.
By the way... French director Francois Ozon now calls Garai his muse.
Oh, excellent. I'm glad someone does.
She starred in his film "Angel" - about a young eccentric British writer in the early 20th century. Highly recommended...
Thank you! I saw when that came out, but didn't know anyone who'd seen it.
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Is it one of your stories? (If so, you won't need me to recommend Angela Carter's Figaro-take.)