sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2012-03-29 01:31 am

I spin so ceaselessly

Today was busy. I saw [livejournal.com profile] mrbelm for a book handoff at the Diesel. I saw Matthew in between errands. I saw Dean for lunch at Sofra. (Score one for the lamb shawarma with tahini yogurt.) I saw two episodes of Millennium with [livejournal.com profile] lesser_celery. (Hence the Patti Smith.) I saw the newly restored print of William Wellman's Wings (1927) at the Brattle Theatre with [livejournal.com profile] derspatchel, a bottle of rose lemonade, and some chocolate with cornflakes in. And then I came home to collapse.

And I saw Sofia Samatar's post on Stone Telling and Alan Turing.

And I saw that [livejournal.com profile] time_shark wants my Charon (sap) poem for Mythic Delirium, although it will need a proper title before it sees print.

I'm still collapsing, but I'm in a pretty good mood.

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2012-03-29 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, this is the good sort of tired.

I was so delighted to see the Sofia Samatar essay--I love the "The Clock House." Bet you're walking on air.

Nine

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2012-03-29 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad for your good mood, and I hope you'll be able to collapse into a state of regenerative rest.

I'm delighted with the Sofia Samatar piece, and that your poem is wanted.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2012-03-29 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow: I hadn't seen that post of Sofia's--how wonderful, perfect, and true, all of it.

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2012-03-29 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
A ha! You're getting ever-closer to the craziest season finale in the world. I can't wait to see what you think of it.;)

Also: LJ hasn't been sending me comments notification, so I wonder if you saw my four replies to your last comment in Monday's entry. Love to know your responses, if so.

[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2012-03-29 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
ToC mates again! Yippee! And congrats :-)
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[identity profile] ajodasso.livejournal.com 2012-03-29 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice! Have got a sub out to MD at present; have got my fingers firmly crossed :)

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2012-03-29 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Huzzah!

(Ritter Sport Knusperflake, or some other cornflaked chocolate?)

Maybe I should submit "Venus of Willendorf Fight Song" somewhere....

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[identity profile] ajodasso.livejournal.com 2012-03-29 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
We were ToC-mates in MD once before, but I can't for the life of me recall which issue at the moment...

*wanders off to dig around in paper-pubs archive, which is still in the luggage just brought back from across the pond*

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2012-03-29 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
He has Ritter Sport in ready supply?

Yes, precioussssssss.

I'll incorporate Up, Up, Willendorf [Mammoth Stampede Remix] as part of the radio play. More absurd can never hurt, either.

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2012-03-29 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
The all-night Korean grocery here even has Ritter sportlets: little squares of every flavor.

Nine

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2012-03-29 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I would come in and hoard the cornflake, the biscuit-bits, the ... well, okay, all of them... but they make special holiday flavors, too, and you must try to get hold of the spiced marzipan one they do for Easter.
gwynnega: (books poisoninjest)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2012-03-29 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
And I saw Sofia Samatar's post on Stone Telling and Alan Turing.

What a wonderful post.

And congratulations on the poetry sale!

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2012-03-29 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't want you to crash, either.

I'm glad you slept.

I dreamed of drinking absinthe in a city that doesn't exist.

Interesting. I like the concept. Was it a city that was somewhat like some city that does, or was it altogether alien?

I dreamt of a city with corridors in place of streets; all the colours were tans and yellows, perhaps with a bit of soft ochre (like a Border's bookshop, maybe?). A street cleaner was binning stuffed animals from my childhood. Not the ones I loved best--somehow I knew those were safe--but it bothered me; they'd been put out for donation, not as rubbish. I stopped him.

Then I was sitting at an outlet, charging my laptop, or something that did the same job. Three software entrepeneurs with Cork City (one may've sounded more Waterford, but I didn't hear as much of him) accents were having a meeting, sitting around a desktop computer. The desk was close to me, to the point that they excused themselves as they sat down. I thought of talking with them, but I didn't.

I can't say I was pleased, but I was grateful it wasn't worse. I saw Warhorse (2011) last evening, and was a bit worried my dreams might be haunted with horses and mud and artillery.

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2012-03-30 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Orange spice marzipan has a domino blue and orange wrapper, and rum-raisin-nut has a red wrapper with gold trim. I can't figure out if blood orange yogurt was this year or last year, but it has a strange orangey pink wrapper.