It's the middle of the night
The order goes, "The bright sun comes up," then "the dew falls away," THEN the little birds get to say good morning good morning. The robin outside my window started singing at ten to three. Obvs had terrible parents who didn't teach him that song.
Clark Kent in a green apron.
Is it possible to eat American food, yet have a sodium deficiency? I realized I was hungry in spite of having eaten, but didn't want salad. Craving pizza like WHOA, I eventually realized that I'd had two whole-milk lattes, a double banana smoothie (with protein powder), and two bags of edamame, but nothing with salt. Now I'm eating a sandwich I found in the freezer. Wonder if the health improvement correlation with eating out has something to do with salt.
Nor da mutila? means Who is the boy? but Nor ikusi du mutilak? means Whom does the boy see? because transitive verbs' subjects and intransitive verbs' subjects take different cases in Basque. Also, cases I've learned so far: Nor, nork, noren, norekin, norengana, norentzat, non, nongo, nondik, nora. I might be forgetting one and I'm not sure I know them all. There are no declension groups (as in 2nd vs 4th declension nouns in Latin), but there are three numbers, so that's fun. Also, Mutilak ni ikusi nau means The boy sees me--note that "nau" and "du" are not the same verb form even though mutilak is still the subject-ish-thing.
Read the first of Barbara Hambly's Asher books because it was on sale for 99 cents. It kept me up all night when I read it. I love the hero but didn't like the solution--fair mystery and all, but predictable and not as world-broadening as some of the incorrect theories. I might read another one, but not at full price.
Read Isabel Allende's Zorro, in Spanish, and discovered that the same thing has happened with Spanish as with French: I can read books now! I liked this one a great deal, but I had again the problem of having grown up too much to lose myself in it; I kept thinking 'ah, here she's dealing with THAT political issue.' Still an awesome swashbuckling adventure. I recommend it to y'all.
Read January Rowe's Management Skills, from Carina, because it said BDSM on it and novellas are cheap and I keep having trouble sleeping lately. Carina only has male dom/female sub BDSM so far (I think there's a gay one coming out soon), which is all about the woman's natural urge to submit, although these books don't claim ALL women want to submit or anything. Also the writing in this one is stilted. It's a good story and the pacing works, but I'm not super impressed.
I'm beginning to understand why people call genre fiction unoriginal at the same time as I'm learning just how hard it is to be unoriginal WELL. It's HARD. It's really hard to be original enough to be publishable at all, let alone the sort of unique voice that bends genres and becomes high art.
Tomorrow is a giant parade and fair and drunken party for which they close off all of the street I work on. I work in the evening, so I'll get to scrub poo off our bathroom floors, unless we lock them. I might also go to the fair, or perhaps try to find a matinee price for First Class if David's interested and I wake up in time.
Clark Kent in a green apron.
Is it possible to eat American food, yet have a sodium deficiency? I realized I was hungry in spite of having eaten, but didn't want salad. Craving pizza like WHOA, I eventually realized that I'd had two whole-milk lattes, a double banana smoothie (with protein powder), and two bags of edamame, but nothing with salt. Now I'm eating a sandwich I found in the freezer. Wonder if the health improvement correlation with eating out has something to do with salt.
Nor da mutila? means Who is the boy? but Nor ikusi du mutilak? means Whom does the boy see? because transitive verbs' subjects and intransitive verbs' subjects take different cases in Basque. Also, cases I've learned so far: Nor, nork, noren, norekin, norengana, norentzat, non, nongo, nondik, nora. I might be forgetting one and I'm not sure I know them all. There are no declension groups (as in 2nd vs 4th declension nouns in Latin), but there are three numbers, so that's fun. Also, Mutilak ni ikusi nau means The boy sees me--note that "nau" and "du" are not the same verb form even though mutilak is still the subject-ish-thing.
Read the first of Barbara Hambly's Asher books because it was on sale for 99 cents. It kept me up all night when I read it. I love the hero but didn't like the solution--fair mystery and all, but predictable and not as world-broadening as some of the incorrect theories. I might read another one, but not at full price.
Read Isabel Allende's Zorro, in Spanish, and discovered that the same thing has happened with Spanish as with French: I can read books now! I liked this one a great deal, but I had again the problem of having grown up too much to lose myself in it; I kept thinking 'ah, here she's dealing with THAT political issue.' Still an awesome swashbuckling adventure. I recommend it to y'all.
Read January Rowe's Management Skills, from Carina, because it said BDSM on it and novellas are cheap and I keep having trouble sleeping lately. Carina only has male dom/female sub BDSM so far (I think there's a gay one coming out soon), which is all about the woman's natural urge to submit, although these books don't claim ALL women want to submit or anything. Also the writing in this one is stilted. It's a good story and the pacing works, but I'm not super impressed.
I'm beginning to understand why people call genre fiction unoriginal at the same time as I'm learning just how hard it is to be unoriginal WELL. It's HARD. It's really hard to be original enough to be publishable at all, let alone the sort of unique voice that bends genres and becomes high art.
Tomorrow is a giant parade and fair and drunken party for which they close off all of the street I work on. I work in the evening, so I'll get to scrub poo off our bathroom floors, unless we lock them. I might also go to the fair, or perhaps try to find a matinee price for First Class if David's interested and I wake up in time.