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Many random thoughts

Jun 22, 2003 04:39

Woohoo! I'm home! I'm in the Taipei apartment right now sweating profusely. I always forget how hot and humid Taiwan is. It feels like one is actually wading through the air. Personally, I think air should be one of those things people don't really think about. When I have to think about air, it's almost always a bad thing: asthma attacks, coughing ( Read more... )

a: jones diana wynne, things of doom, a: leguin ursula, a: wrede patricia, books: ya/children's, a: marillier juliet, a: adams douglas, books, books: fantasy

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wow... angeyja June 22 2003, 06:55:07 UTC

...making up for lost LJ time ( ... )

Re: wow... oyceter June 22 2003, 07:06:13 UTC

Very much making up for lost time! I missed my LJ greatly.

You have a garden? That's wonderful! I desperately want to learn how to garden so I can have a glorious rose garden (I read Rose Daughter one too many times). They're also so cheerful... What do you grow?

I'm pretty bad at all nighters myself. Sometimes my reading before bed habit results in a completely screwed up circadian cycle, in which I sleep at 5 in the morning and wake up around 1 or 2 in the afternoon. That's when I tell myself I'm sleeping normally -- for another time zone -_-;;.

Right now my schedule is about three weeks in Taiwan doing absolutely nothing. Then I fly back to California, hopefully with a job offer in hand. If not... keep looking, I guess.

Re: wow... angeyja June 22 2003, 07:33:42 UTC

I do. Roses! and a few other things as bit players. So far I'm growing: Falstaff, Sombreuil, Gertrude Jeykyll, Aloha, Autumn Sunset, a mysterious striped rose that smells of baby powder (my rose source has some labelling issues since it's definitely not the cabbage rose I thought I bought), Gloire de Dijon, Don Juan, Iceberg, Fantin Latour, Abraham Darby, Stanwell perpetual, Konigen Denmark, Therese Bugnet, Polka, Heather Austin, Mrs John laing, Blanc de Courbet, Belle Pointevine, Sally Holmes, City of York, Snow owl, Tamora, Margo Koster, Westmoreland, Heritage, Madam Hardy and my favorite Zephirin Drouin. There's a few more but I'm blanking on the names. Whoosh! I've focussed in Old Roses but if its a good one that's newer like some of the Austins or Aloha, I'm game... but they must be fairly low maintenance and highly scented ( ... )

Re: wow... oyceter June 22 2003, 21:24:24 UTC

Wow... so much rose information =). I will definitely have to keep this in hand until I manage to find a living space with a garden. How much time does it take to take care of your garden?

Sigh.. the job search is pretty nasty right now. No one seems to be hiring, plus, most people aren't looking for recent graduates who study East Asia for some reason. And I've heard statistics that say that only 30% of the graduating class this year have come out of college with job offers. Yikes.

In California right now mostly because of the weather! After four years of the east coast, I've decided that the entire cold snow thing is very not for me. Plus, my family's been vacationing in California for a while now, so we know the area, and there are quite a few family friends there that moved there from Taiwan.

Re: wow... angeyja June 23 2003, 16:44:32 UTC

I know. Sorry about that I tend to drone on when it's one of my obsessions roses or keeshonds or mythology. Well, the ones I listed would have worked great for you if lived in NJ still but in the CA area you'll want some other things. On a very bright note (for you) you'll have a much much better chance of a really great garden on the west coast... there's a reason most of the breeders are there ( ... )

Re: wow... oyceter June 24 2003, 03:33:13 UTC

Oooo, now you have me itching to move out of my apartment and into one where I can have my own little plot of land. Like Mary in Secret Garden asking for just a little bit of earth for herself... I unfortunately feel as though I'd be horrid at it. My mother and I both have the ability to kill plants by merely owning them, but hopefully my roommate Sarah's green thumb may have rubbed off a little ( ... )

Re: wow... angeyja June 25 2003, 07:04:50 UTC

Erm. I actually bought this place against all recs except my Dad's. I think it reminded him of his mother's little house in Rossford Ohio. The town too they were both factory towns built around the turn of the century, my town around a mill and a hop out the back door and you can see the falls and the river. It's quite a lot of work having your own place, but I can plant and have dogs and lay tile and paint, I have a freehand art deco design on the wall in the blue room and a piece of ivy painted to look like it's growing out of the window in the bath and all of that is quite wonderful, not to mention leaving the dishes unwashed in the sink overnight if I feel like it. I find painting gardening kind of zen and a lovely change from all the computer work... but my real goal is to do my own business when I'm grown, roses and maybe a shop, combining the business degree and at least one of my obsessions ( ... )

Re: wow... oyceter June 25 2003, 08:19:18 UTC

Brust wrote something called The Sun, the Moon and the Stars? Is it fairy tale-based? If so, I definitely have to get it! And is Megan Lindholm the old penname of Robin Hobb? Wow, it's so strange when I find out that authors I read know each other, even though it probably shouldn't be!

I'm quite irked now because my mother forgot to give me the receipt for Harry Potter... now I can't go pick it up tomorrow and must wait an extra day! Gr. Actually the wait wouldn't be so bad since I'm used to waiting for books to come out in paperback, but I'm very sick of skipping over all the LJ entries discussing OotP.

Re: wow... angeyja June 25 2003, 13:14:54 UTC

I'm such a bad writer... here's Rambles Review: Like Charles de Lint's Jack of Kinrowan, The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars was originally published as part of Terri Windling's series of novel-length fairy tales rewritten for adults. Tor republished it under the Orb imprint, which means that it should remain in print as an Orb book. (Would that the rest of the series would follow ( ... )

Re: wow... oyceter June 25 2003, 23:03:25 UTC

Thanks for the summary! Really must go find the book now... and I very much agree with the Rambles reviewer in that the Terri Windling fairy tale series should most definitely be republished. I've been looking for Kara Dalkey's Nightengale for quite some time now!

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