Both of us need it like Hell

[sovay]

1. I slept ten hours last night. I think the last time I got more than six was in September. Today I'm kind of reclusive and slightly burnt out, but still rather happy. I may go out anyway, just to see what happens. There's sunlight.

2. ratatosk has taken to referring to my persistent belief that other people automatically find me boring/brain-dead/annoying as "Tiny Wittgenstein on My Shoulder." He is apparently modeled after Tiny Carl Jung from Dresden Codak (which I still haven't read), but I flashed on the personality sprites from Narbonic. I'm not really sure what I could promise anyone who felt like drawing me gloomy, winged chibi Wittgenstein—probably in his leather jacket, looking glumly agonized—other than a profound apology, but it seems to be a concept I really like. Also easier to integrate into a conversation than yelling "Wittgenstein!" every time I notice I'm apologizing inappropriately, because that way lies Basingstoke.

3. Speaking of which: Is that descending figure that opens the overture to Ruddigore (1887) a deliberate callback to Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre (1874), or is it just me? I was humming the one when I realized I'd switched to the other.

4. I have been eating the hell out of the durian candies sharhaun brought back from Singapore—I got a package from him after The Lighthouse, when he found out I actually liked them. They were delicious and short-lived. I have no idea where I am supposed to get more.

5. I hope someone at Badass of the Week sees this obituary. "To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler."

I really did have a spectacular weekend. I had a good week. I think the week before that was pretty good, too. (Before that was the hell-cold.) It really feels like I shouldn't sneeze or I'll break my life, but I am enjoying myself.

Comments

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

of the durian candies

I see them at Asian markets... durian flavored just about everything, cookies, chips, drinks.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I totally misread this as "durian candles".

Eww.

[sovay]

I see them at Asian markets... durian flavored just about everything, cookies, chips, drinks.

Good point. I'll try H Mart and the Super 88.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The notion of "tiny Wittgenstein on my shoulder" is adorable.

Personally, I find managing a mink farm more exciting than professional gambler.

[sovay]

The notion of "tiny Wittgenstein on my shoulder" is adorable.

Thank ratatosk!

Personally, I find managing a mink farm more exciting than professional gambler.

I suspect it is only in the world of John Fairfax that managing a mink farm is boring.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I'm totally going to try to draw you a chibi Wittgenstein! Furthermore, the ninja girl, who is on her way to a JET interview tomorrow, will be passing through tonight, and if I don't like my own chibi Wittgenstein, I may prevail up her to try.

But maybe others will volunteer as well. You can have Wittegenstein cherubim--I mean, could it get any better?

[sovay]

You can have Wittegenstein cherubim--I mean, could it get any better?

Your plural is making me grin my head off.

(Thank you!)

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

That is indeed a Badass-worthy obit. And I'm so glad you're enjoying yourself again, because not enjoying yourself sucks the big bag.;)

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate.

On purpose, too!

[sovay]

And I'm so glad you're enjoying yourself again, because not enjoying yourself sucks the big bag.

Thank you! I hope I can soon say the same for you!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Oh, not durian candles, then. Thank God. I was really worrying what the wax residue was going to do to your inner workings.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Uh. I misread that, too.

[sovay]

I was really worrying what the wax residue was going to do to your inner workings.

. . . I have some very weird habits, but eating candles is not one of them!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Hooray for sleep! If you post a picture of the durian candies I suspect they might turn up at various Asian markets around here, and I can keep an eye open.

[sovay]

If you post a picture of the durian candies I suspect they might turn up at various Asian markets around here, and I can keep an eye open.

I hadn't thought of that either. Thank you!

[zdenka]

Is that descending figure that opens the overture to Ruddigore (1887) a deliberate callback to Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre (1874)

Hmm, could be. It's not long enough for me to have a definite opinion. But SUllivan definitely did things like that. I've always assumed the very beginning of the overture was a reference to the overture of Il Trovatore . . .

[sovay]

I've always assumed the very beginning of the overture was a reference to the overture of Il Trovatore . . .

Which I don't know! The Saint-Saëns made sense with the graveyard connection, but you know more about Sullivan's musical tastes than I do.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

It's been over a decade since I saw Il Trovatore, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't have an overture.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

It's the attempted suicide by jaguar that got me!

Basingstoke?

I am now also imagining Wittgenstein action figures; apologies.

Unrelated: but Singing Innocence and Experience is awesome.

[sovay]

Basingstoke?

"Margaret, if you don't Basingstoke at once, I shall be seriously angry."

I am now also imagining Wittgenstein action figures; apologies.

Oh, hell, I'd buy one!

Unrelated: but Singing Innocence and Experience is awesome.

I am so glad. Thank you.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Did you know that Basingstoke used to be Basingstoke-on-Sea? It's just that one day the sea got so bored, it went out and couldn't be bothered to come back in again.

[sovay]

It's just that one day the sea got so bored, it went out and couldn't be bothered to come back in again.

*snerk*

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

You think you're boring? Yeah, that does sound like the Witgenstein on your shoulder problem. I must say that as soon as I was on a panel with you I made it a point of reading Lucan's Civil War (not sure if I have a decent translation - it's the Susan Braund translation - my Latin is rusty and this is the copy that I own) and then making sure to catch almost every panel that you were on (unless it was about a subject that I had no interest in). And I was not disappointed because you tended to add something to every panel (and I made sure to put as many Derek Jarman movies on hold from the library as I could including The Tempest, Witgenstein and Edward II)

And I should add that I was feeling rather bored and anxious that weekend and I must have walked out of at least 60% of the panels that I attended from sheer disinterest.

[sovay]

You think you're boring? Yeah, that does sound like the Witgenstein on your shoulder problem.

I did say I'm working on it! I don't really want to have to reinvent philosophy . . .

And I should add that I was feeling rather bored and anxious that weekend and I must have walked out of at least 60% of the panels that I attended from sheer disinterest.

Then thank you especially. And I'm glad you've been enjoying Derek Jarman!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I really did have a spectacular weekend. I had a good week.

I rejoice!

Nine

[sovay]

I rejoice!

I have rather a headache right now, but it was still worth it!

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

Laissez les bons temps rouler? 'Tis the season, after all. In all seriousness, I hope that the sequence of good weekend + week(s) continues. Yay for ten hours of sleep!

[sovay]

In all seriousness, I hope that the sequence of good weekend + week(s) continues. Yay for ten hours of sleep!

Thank you! I hope so, too!

(My God, it is still Mardi Gras. I'm so out of touch this year. Awesome!)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

1.

I'm glad for your getting sleep and feeling rather happy. I hope the sunlight was pleasant.

2.

If only I could draw, I'd be drawing Tiny Shoulder Wittgenstein. Alas, the only things I can draw are cartoonish horses, dogs, and other critters.

4.

I hope you can find more durian candies. I might have to look for some, myself--the idea is interesting.

5.

Agreed, he definitely deserves a turn as Badass of the Week. The bit about apprenticing as a pirate is particularly interesting, although that may be because, despite the inappropriateness of the same when compared with real-life piracy, I'm having Gilbert and Sullivan-esque thoughts.

I'm very happy that you're enjoying yourself. I hope today has also been a good day, or at least an okay one.

[sovay]

I'm glad for your getting sleep and feeling rather happy. I hope the sunlight was pleasant.

It was, and so was hanging out with ratatosk and derspatchel for a couple of hours!

I hope you can find more durian candies. I might have to look for some, myself--the idea is interesting.

I really like durian, or at least the one variety of durian that scottedelman brought to Readercon this summer and the flavor represented by sharhaun's candies. I'd like to try more.

The bit about apprenticing as a pirate is particularly interesting, although that may be because, despite the inappropriateness of the same when compared with real-life piracy, I'm having Gilbert and Sullivan-esque thoughts.

I think so does everyone who reads that line. It's impressive.