When are the tents coming down?

[sovay]

The trouble is that I am dead flat exhausted and therefore nothing interesting is happening on this journal, because nothing interesting is happening in my brain. I am tired of work. I am finding the news difficult to deal with. spatch came home from Davis Square with fancy ravioli from Dave's and a sherry mushroom sauce to cook them in. Valerie Taylor's The Girls in 3-B (1959) reminds me of a Dorothy Arzner movie except that in addition to the clear and critical examination of heteronormativity, the novel contains an explicitly lesbian couple who get a happy ending as a pleasant antidote to all the crushing boy-meets-girl maneuvering. It is not Tyrone Power's fault, but when I discover that he starred in a movie called Captain from Castile (1947), speaking as a person who has seen My Favorite Year (1982) more times than I can count, I'm afraid my first reaction is "Captain from crap!"

Comments

[yhlee]

*support support*

I have a book for you I've been meaning to mail you since Lithuania (bought in the Lithuanian airport, and by a Lithuanian woman author, translated into English, with a sublime triptych of three short stories). I swear I'll try to get it out soon. I've just been super flaky.

[sovay]

I have a book for you I've been meaning to mail you since Lithuania (bought in the Lithuanian airport, and by a Lithuanian woman author, translated into English, with a sublime triptych of three short stories).

Thank you. That sounds wonderful.

I swear I'll try to get it out soon. I've just been super flaky.

Please don't worry about being flaky. I have had a friend's hat hanging dry-cleaned in my closet for the last seven months and still haven't managed to mail it back to them. There is no stone-throwing here.

[yhlee]

Brief report on the book just to whet your appetite. :)

[sovay]

Brief report on the book just to whet your appetite.

It sounds great!

[thisbluespirit]

Aww, sorry. I hope you feel less exhausted soon! <3

[radiantfracture]

Ditto.

[ladymondegreen]

There is never any stone throwing (I eye the many months delayed care package I ought to send, to say nothing of the two finished baby afghans that need mailing and one more to sew together).

Though some stone soup might not be a bad plan.

[sovay]

I hope you feel less exhausted soon!

Thank you.

[sovay]

Ditto.

Much appreciated. I'm waiting to see if the time change helps.

[sovay]

Though some stone soup might not be a bad plan.

I made stone soup as a child, after reading one version or another in a picture book. It came out really well. It is grey and cold and the sun is setting early here; it would not be the worst thing to make again.

Thanks.

[radiantfracture]

Did it help a bit?

I've never been more grateful for the "extra" hour myself than this year.

[sovay]

Did it help a bit?

I think it may have! I didn't manage to be asleep for the extra hour, unfortunately, but I am at least functional at a time of day that does not feel completely wasted.

[handful_ofdust]

Captain from Crap! was my reaction to that info, too.;)

[sovay]

Captain from Crap! was my reaction to that info, too.

It's a line that gets a lot of airplay in our house. That whole conversation is gold.

"Sy, that one, Defender of the Crown, is a classic!"
"Crap."
"And so is Captain from Tortuga!"
"Crap."
"And what about Swords of Glory?"
"Crap."
"Amarillo?"
"Crap."
"Sands of the Sudan?"
"Crap! Benjy, you want to see movies, get a job as an usher!"

[handful_ofdust]

That whole movie is gold.;)