Another day subbing?
I won't know for another hour, at which time I must go in immediately. So I am up. Awake? Not so much. It is very difficult this morning.
eta - just found out, I am NOT subbing today. I'm going back to bed - assuming I can persuade "She who must be obeyed" (aka, the ShadowCat) to do the same.
I started reading King Solomon's Mines (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2166) yesterday at the library - mostly because I am knitting and I knew I could get a text version of it up on the screen (I have been intending to read a hardcopy of the book for the past month or so). Aside from the boasting of the author that in all the adventure there is not the slightest hint of romance (The narrator is in his mid-50s so it's not so great a surprise) I am enjoying it. The story has some deft (and amusing) turns of phrases. For example ;-- After spending a week in Cape Town, finding that they overcharged me at the hotel, and having seen everything there was to see, including the botanical gardens, which seem to me likely to confer a great benefit on the country, and the new Houses of Parliament, which I expect will do nothing of the sort, ...
This particular passage, right on the first page, particularly impressed me with insight - considering that it was written during Victoria's reign, I would not have expected the sentiment.And, besides, am I a gentleman? What is a gentleman? I don't quite know, and yet I have had to do with niggers-no, I will scratch out that word "niggers," for I do not like it. I've known natives who are, and so you will say, Harry, my boy, before you have done with this tale, and I have known mean whites with lots of money and fresh out from home, too, who are not.
I also spent some time yesterday exploring the folklore of the SciFi show Lost Girl at http://lostgirl.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Fae. Very interesting. I was primarily interested in the luduan and was amused to learn that the throne of the Chinese emperor had been surrounded by braziers in the shape of luduan - amused because the two so far seen in the show have smoked like chimneys and one depended on the burning of incense to set the mood.
I must go now and prepare. A prayer to start the day.
O GOD, who broughtst me from the rest of last night
Unto the joyous light of this day,
Be Thou bringing me from the new light of this day
Unto the guiding light of eternity.
DHÈ, thug mis à fois na h-oidhch an ràoir
Chon solus aoibhneach an là an diugh,
Bi da mo thoir bho sholus ùr an là an diugh,
Chon solus iùl na sìorraidheachd. Amen.
eta - just found out, I am NOT subbing today. I'm going back to bed - assuming I can persuade "She who must be obeyed" (aka, the ShadowCat) to do the same.
I started reading King Solomon's Mines (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2166) yesterday at the library - mostly because I am knitting and I knew I could get a text version of it up on the screen (I have been intending to read a hardcopy of the book for the past month or so). Aside from the boasting of the author that in all the adventure there is not the slightest hint of romance (The narrator is in his mid-50s so it's not so great a surprise) I am enjoying it. The story has some deft (and amusing) turns of phrases. For example ;-- After spending a week in Cape Town, finding that they overcharged me at the hotel, and having seen everything there was to see, including the botanical gardens, which seem to me likely to confer a great benefit on the country, and the new Houses of Parliament, which I expect will do nothing of the sort, ...
This particular passage, right on the first page, particularly impressed me with insight - considering that it was written during Victoria's reign, I would not have expected the sentiment.And, besides, am I a gentleman? What is a gentleman? I don't quite know, and yet I have had to do with niggers-no, I will scratch out that word "niggers," for I do not like it. I've known natives who are, and so you will say, Harry, my boy, before you have done with this tale, and I have known mean whites with lots of money and fresh out from home, too, who are not.
I also spent some time yesterday exploring the folklore of the SciFi show Lost Girl at http://lostgirl.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Fae. Very interesting. I was primarily interested in the luduan and was amused to learn that the throne of the Chinese emperor had been surrounded by braziers in the shape of luduan - amused because the two so far seen in the show have smoked like chimneys and one depended on the burning of incense to set the mood.
I must go now and prepare. A prayer to start the day.
O GOD, who broughtst me from the rest of last night
Unto the joyous light of this day,
Be Thou bringing me from the new light of this day
Unto the guiding light of eternity.
DHÈ, thug mis à fois na h-oidhch an ràoir
Chon solus aoibhneach an là an diugh,
Bi da mo thoir bho sholus ùr an là an diugh,
Chon solus iùl na sìorraidheachd. Amen.