Comments | byelka58: 50 Books: 39-47.

byelka58

50 Books: 39-47.

Nov 15, 2007 19:47

Back over the first weekend in November, Mom took off for Albuquerque, leaving behind a broken-knobbed shower that could be turned down, but never off. Blaming Mom for setting me up this bomb only went so far towards comforting me, especially while I could still hear the water endlessly trickling. There was no question of letting the water drain ( Read more... )

pets, books, this house

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la_zumo November 16 2007, 15:19:27 UTC

Ha ha. You're living under drought conditions.

Dresden makes you a supernerd. But that's why we love you.

byelka58 November 18 2007, 14:15:20 UTC

Yeah, when my mom was out in New Mexico, everyone she met was concerned about the water situation in Atlanta. And they live in the desert.

I'm just working with what I have, here.

gabbiana November 17 2007, 17:38:02 UTC

I admire both your ingenuity and your environmentalism. I would've just bought some earplugs.

Cats *are* like Victorian match-children. Victorian match-children with phossy jaw.

Books I have not read!
Beloved: Eh.
The Complete Essays of Mark Twain: Yay! I (heart) Twain. And "He draws like a piss-drunk Thurber" is good. Very good.
Death: I want to borrow this one.
High Tech Heretic: You mean learning to use Tandys in high school didn't help me out in the real world? FOR SHAME.
The Known World: I have nothing to say on this one.
The Omnivore's Dilemma: As I believe I've mentioned... on someone else's blog... I don't want to read this book for fear that I'll actually start to *care* about where my food comes from, and how far do you go down *that* rabbit-hole? Only organic ($)? Only super-organic-all-natural ($$$)? The 100-mile diet? Eating only what you grow yourself in your bedroom hothouse, and when the cops show up expecting a pot bust all you've got to show for yourself are some shriveled carrots and a massive case of ( ... )

byelka58 November 18 2007, 14:24:56 UTC

That was maybe the most obscure reference of our lives - and the Wikipedia article (do they have a deal with Google, so that they always come up first?) is alarmingly matter-of-fact. Phossy jaw indeed.

I never read The Kite Runner. Perhaps you are thinking of The Bookseller of Kabul, or of someone else's book reviews.

I would mail these books to you, but I feel that I do not have your current address (which is why I haven't returned your books from the last review period...), and also you have no time to read them. Perhaps I will load you up over break instead? Perhaps.

Words like "nozhorn" make me think that when the elders of Zion sat down to fabricate the Yiddish language, they weren't even trying. Am I to assume that you're studying zoo animals in your class, or did you get tired of talking about pork and decide to delve further into the world of meats?

gabbiana November 18 2007, 23:56:39 UTC

The rest of the class finally received its (their?) (I hate collective nouns) dictionaries, so we had a "learning to use this book" info session (which notations indicate outdated terms, etc). And I was flipping through, and hit on "nozhorn" accidentally, which led me to hope for an equally good word for "elephant" ("nozhant" would've been good). But no luck, and try as I might, I can't make the "(h)and" in "helfand" mean "hand", because "hand" in Yiddish is "hant," not "hand," and anyway what the hell do I know of linguistics and Yiddish word derivations? Nothing.