Whether the future's bright or we're out of luck

[sovay]

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.

Comments

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Nice. Congratulations!

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.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a much better day than might have otherwise been.

Also congratulations; I like it when awesome people storm the Rhyslings (especially when I get to help).

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the Rhysling nomination!

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Well done to you.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Pretty damned good day. Huzzah for the Rhysling nomination!

Nine

[selidor]

I do like the sense-of-place-and-moment in that poem. Glad!

[ibid.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

Tell us if you see something nasty in the woodshed

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the nomination. Still waiting to hear if I've got any *fingers crossed*

[tiereu.livejournal.com]

I must add "Cold Comfort" to my list... the description and picture remind me of the movie "I Capture the Castle" - starring Bill Nighy and Romola Garai. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300015/
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!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the nomination!

I'm glad for the pleasant-sounding things.