sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2012-09-04 12:17 pm

The rain will surely win the race

1. I slept about four hours last night. Most of them were taken up with dreaming of children's books in a nonexistent library. I chalk this up to my recent Bellairs binge and a desire to seek out Frances Hardinge, who I believe has slightly more objective reality than the authors I dreamed about. The night before last, asleep for a rare twelve hours in the wake of the pre-Code marathon, I dreamed I was behind deadline on a Lovecraftian script treatment. I woke up and thought, "[livejournal.com profile] handful_ofdust . . . ?"

2. Yesterday's primary social engagement: meeting my new Strange Horizons co-editors, [livejournal.com profile] ajodasso and [livejournal.com profile] rinue, for cake and conversation at the Danish Pastry House. We talked about poetry. We also talked about the folklore of tomatoes and our feelings toward root vegetables of the UK. This thing where we all live within driving or public transit distance of one another is fascinating. We have plans.

3. Vonda McIntyre's The Moon and the Sun (1997) is finally being filmed. I repeat: PETER DINKLAGE PLEASE THANK YOU. (And hey, after Game of Thrones, maybe someone with a bankroll will even agree with me.)

It is pouring rain, steadily and undramatically; I do not foresee doing very much with the next twelve hours besides working and trying to recharge. I would like to be writing, but it's one of those days when I feel like someone erased the inside of my head. Have a Roman shipwreck. I like the shipwright's lost brush, the sailor who dropped his name into the sea. I'd missed the olive stone in Silchester.

[identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com 2012-09-06 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Parsnips are splendid! Roasted is best, but curried and souped is fine too. And cake, as observed. What else can we do with parsnips?
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[identity profile] ajodasso.livejournal.com 2012-09-06 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Roasted, curried, souped - splendid, all three! I've not yet had parsnip cake, but I think this could be magnificent. I'm fairly certain I've had parsnip crisps in those mixed bags of veggie crisps (being unable to eat potato), and they are also quite nice.

[identity profile] rinue.livejournal.com 2012-09-06 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
I think I may prefer parsnips to potato, and I love potato and am not allergic to it. It's something I'll have to ponder; it doesn't seem like something to decide lightly.