Different Day

[greygirlbeast]

Late yesterday, we drove down to Kathryn's parents' place, where we filmed last weekend. I'd hoped being away from the city might help the darkness that's been creeping back over me the past week or so. I know the meds are still working, even if it feels like they're not. Anyway, yeah, so we went to the farm. And at first I did have hope. I napped

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[girfan]

I trust your judgment on films-you haven't steered me wrong yet. I want to see Red State and you have confirmed it.

[greygirlbeast]

Very good.

[everville340]

There was nothing else about the visit that helped, and that brief lifting of the veil dissolved very quickly.

I can relate...not out of a sense of comparison over the specific things we've experienced in our lives, but in having the sense that as the amount of each time the veil actually lifts decreases the amount of time in between it lifting seems to increase (if that makes any sense).

Right now, Netflix is streaming it.

Thanks for the Netflix streaming/DVD selections. There are things that I wouldn't normally have been aware of that I've now seen from having started to regularly 'follow' your LJ: Case 39, Trollhunter, and now queue-ing Red State and Sauna.

[greygirlbeast]

Case 39, Trollhunter, and now queue-ing Red State and Sauna.

Then I am doing a very good thing.

[everville340]

Then I am doing a very good thing.

Yes, indeed. You are very much appreciated.

[aarontbc]

One would be a boxed, two volume limited-edition set of hardbacks of both The Red Tree and The Drowning Girl, with lots of tipped in color illustrations, facsimile documents, expanded text, appendices, and so forth

This would be a grand and wonderous thing. "The Red Tree" absolutely deserves such lavish treatment.

[greygirlbeast]

This would be a grand and wonderous thing. "The Red Tree" absolutely deserves such lavish treatment.

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

[corucia]

One would be a boxed, two volume limited-edition set of hardbacks of both The Red Tree and The Drowning Girl

I'd put down the bills for this in a heartbeat - I'm a glutton for hardback editions. Permanence and solidity, history and weight.

I still find myself hating the iPad. [snip] It's just something no one on earth needs (or anything similar manufactured by another company), no matter how much they may "need" it.I purchased one recently for my teaching. Lots of students were asking if the materials for the class were tablet-compatible, and I needed the iPad to get everything formatted correctly. My view of it has changed a lot since I first obtained it. Initially I thought about it in the same manner you do. However, I now regard it in a different light - as a tool that does a job. Some tools are general-purpose (a chef's knife) while others are highly specific (a hard-boiled egg slicer). As a textbook replacement, the iPad is more in the line with the chef's knife than the egg slicer. The electronic version of the

[greygirlbeast]

I'm going to agree (and the crowd goes wild) on the subject of textbooks. Yes, that is a very valid, indeed very good, use for an iPad like device. Textbooks are a ripoff, and they have been for decades. I also don't class most of them as genuine books, hence no conflict with my feelings about eBooks.

[greygirlbeast]

I have no energy for anger anymore

I don't invite it in anymore than I can keep it out. Best I can do is hold it in.