Life, or something like it.

[hermione_vader]

Birthday tomorrow!  Mom may take me out for a drink, but she can't actually have one, since she's having hip replacement surgery on Thursday.  Figures.

Am currently reading Herman Melville's Redburn (one of his sea novels that isn't Moby Dick), and now know way too much about merchant ships.

On Monday night, I went to the university's trivia night

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[visiblemarket]

Aw, happy birthday!

I haven't read Redburn (or Moby Dick, although I hear it's ridiculously slashy), but I really love Melville's Bartleby the Scrivner. It's short and surreal and just...so odd, but interesting.

[hermione_vader]

Thank you!

All I know about Moby-Dick I learned from my mother: "'The Rope.' Two whole pages about 'The Rope!'" "Bartleby the Scrivener" is so wonderfully freaky ("I'd prefer not to"). Redburn is more straight forward, but the protagonist is a moron. "Billy Budd" is awesome, though---so slashy! ;)

[inoue_noriko]

Hehe! That's because Billy Bud keeps the background stuff on minimum and concentrates more on the (magnificent bastard who steals the show) the characters and plot.

And yes, slashy. If only Billy answered with a kiss instead of pwnage...

[shadowed_gold]

Have a shiny happy birthday!

[hermione_vader]

Thanks!

[lotus0kid]

Happy birthday! I hope your mom's surgery goes well. *hugs*

[hermione_vader]

Thank you. *hugs back* So do I. I'm just really glad she won't be in constant pain anymore.

THAT IS A TERRIBLE QUESTION

[jackson_maggler]

Happy birthday!

Also, Herman Melville really like the ocean, didn't he?

WAIT, WHAT IS?

[hermione_vader]

Thank you!

Well, yeah, I think he spent his youth as a sailor (that's apparently what Redburn is based on). You can take a sailor out of the ocean...

OF COURSE MELVILLE LIKED THE SEA

[jackson_maggler]

But you can't take the ocean out of the sailor. According to one of my professors, Melville was the original hipster.