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Did you sleep well? Did you sleep fine? Did you sleep much at all?
My poem "The Lost Aphrodite" has been accepted by The Cascadia Subduction Zone. In July, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rose_lemberg asked me for a poem about stones; I wrote this one the next day on the commuter train to Salem. It's not the perspective from which I usually write about the ancient world.
I did take a nap yesterday, right after posting. That did not stop me from failing to get more than another hour and a half of sleep last night. So far I have stayed awake through a morning meeting (online) with my fellow editors at Strange Horizons, an afternoon showing of Rex Ingram's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) at the Somerville Theatre, cat-feeding errands withderspatchel, housecleaning with rushthatspeaks and gaudior, and then some more Steven Universe. I think it has actually been a reasonably productive day. I'd just like to feel less like I'm running some comparative experiment in sleep deprivation. I have movies to write about. Not to mention poems. Someday. It might be fun.
Have some gryphons from the Black Sea.
rose_lemberg asked me for a poem about stones; I wrote this one the next day on the commuter train to Salem. It's not the perspective from which I usually write about the ancient world.I did take a nap yesterday, right after posting. That did not stop me from failing to get more than another hour and a half of sleep last night. So far I have stayed awake through a morning meeting (online) with my fellow editors at Strange Horizons, an afternoon showing of Rex Ingram's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) at the Somerville Theatre, cat-feeding errands with
derspatchel, housecleaning with rushthatspeaks and gaudior, and then some more Steven Universe. I think it has actually been a reasonably productive day. I'd just like to feel less like I'm running some comparative experiment in sleep deprivation. I have movies to write about. Not to mention poems. Someday. It might be fun.Have some gryphons from the Black Sea.
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Those gryphons are pretty neat.
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I'm sorry sleep trouble still continues.
Well, I slept almost ten hours last night, just on a terrible schedule that woke me up in the afternoon. But it's progress!
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Those gryphons are pretty neat.
I've seen similar Scythian goldwork, but I'm not sure any artifacts from specifically that culture before. I really like them.
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Thank you. Good things happen when you ask for them. [edit] Well, that looked like terrible life advice when I read it a second time. In translation, that means: prompt me for more poems; results are always good.
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Sorry to hear it! Amen.
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That sounds like a way more productive day than I could manage on a sleep deficit.
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That sounds like a way more productive day than I could manage on a sleep deficit.
I really don't want my body to be acclimating! I'd like to sleep eight to ten hours again in my life! I remember it being nice!
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(I can take no responsibility for the gryphons, but I also like them.)
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--were they legendarily one-eyed because they were actual cyclopses, or beacuse they ritually blinded themselves in one eye? If the latter, why? Etc.
Herodotos simply calls them "the one-eyed Arimaspoi people" (Ἀριμασποὺς ἄνδρας μουνοφθάλμους), but I believe later traditions depict them as cyclopean. If you wanted to go with the euhemeristic ritual blinding, though, I wouldn't stop you.
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I await happily.