mental miscellanea

[skellorg]

i am: sitting here when i should be in the kitchen cooking
listening to: an ambitious neighbor mowing his lawn
drinking: green tea, hot

• son returned from his "underway" last weekend for a brief visit to dryland. very brief. he'll be leaving on friday for a two-month jaunt this time. at least i got one good meal in him before he's submerged beneath the ocean again.
• i meant to offer him coyote blue when he was over here doing his taxes last night, but forgot. grrrr.
• speaking of which, if i ever had to pick a favorite christopher moore book, i'd be hard pressed to choose. he has the same way of drawing the reader in that made me a stephen king fan so very long ago: take a regular, ordinary person, throw them into an extraordinary, unbelievable situation and it suddenly becomes believable. stephen king lost me with insomnia and i've not managed to find any interest in reading anything of his since then. i wonder if i've been missing out on anything exceptional.
• worked through an entire manuscript last week and am about halfway through another so far this week. the one i'm working on now is entitled "the compleat midwife's practice," and i should have remembered from working through a different manuscript for midwives in the past and prepared myself: manuscripts about midwives' techniques can be very depressing. perhaps i'm a little too empathetic, but i can't help but imagine suffering some of the ministrations documented. i find it odd that the women who were wealthy enough to be looked after in this manner are those that i consider "those poor women," while the poor countrywomen were most likely much better off being treated by a kindly aunt or other acquaintance.
• yog cheerfully gave up both blood and urine samples yet again to the vet yesterday. she's lost two pounds in two weeks. this raised eyebrows and alarm among the vet techs, but the last time she was in there was at the end of the day, and this time it was first thing in the morning after twelve hours of fasting. i'm not going to worry about it, rhett. hopefully i won't have to wait too long to hear back from the vet; even more hopeful am i regarding the results. i would cross my fingers, but it would be very difficult to type that way.

that's me in a nutshell on a wednesday in april.

today's reading: since updating last i finished coyote blue by christopher moore, and am well into girl in hyacinth blue by susan vreeland. in fact, i think i just have one chapter left. next week i'll be re-reading to say nothing of the dog by connie willis with a friend to whom i have recommended it so highly that she went out and bought it. between now and then? i don't know. i may have to attempt the name of the rose again. one of these times i'll find myself drawn into it. i just know it.