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iamsab

my regular Tuesday suit

Jul 19, 2005 13:10

I don't have to be at work till 6:00 tonight, which offers me the longest stretch of downtime I've had since the 4th of July and I am trying very hard not to read HBP, because I want to save it for my plane flight on Wednesday. I'm on page 198, because what was supposed to be "just a little taste" turned out to be not so much, but that still leaves ( Read more... )

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empressaurelius July 19 2005, 21:02:38 UTC

Have fun at the wedding! Huge family occasions like that NEVER fail to be interesting....

I can't believe the willpower you're exerting NOT to be reading HBP omg! Go you! It's.....incredible. I finished it after about six hours of reading.

iamsab July 19 2005, 21:14:31 UTC

It's hard, believe me. *g* I left it in the other room so it would stop taunting me.

sorlklewis July 19 2005, 21:20:05 UTC

MK and I think you're insane, and don't understand why you're torturing yourself like that. :P

Actually, I'm at the exact same page as you are, and didn't have a chance to read any last night. But lunch! In 10 minutes! I shall read then.

empressaurelius July 19 2005, 21:22:26 UTC

*Shakes head* I do totally believe you! Leaving it in the other room might be a good idea, yeah. Maybe cover it w/ a blanket or something! Or put it away in whatever you're carrying on the plane w/ you.

Celebrated Blue Period gem225 July 19 2005, 21:05:40 UTC

I clicked on the link for Celebrated Blue Period, thinking that since it was a M*A*S*H quote it'd be a M*A*S*H story, which is pretty damned stupid come to think of it, but it was a WW story, which intrigued me, so I read it. Excellent story, although it's by you so that's no surprise. You're an excellent writer. :-)

I'm melting here in Cambridge in this utterly heavy weather. Have a safe trip, beware of the mosquitos, and have fun. :-)

Re: Celebrated Blue Period iamsab July 19 2005, 21:16:47 UTC

Heh, it occurred to me after I posted that there was nothing there to suggest it WASN'T a M*A*S*H story, but, whatever. *g* Glad you enjoyed it regardless!

And, yeah, I jsut got off the phone with my mom who says it's miserable and humid but it might RAIN on Thursday, which would be refreshing. Any predictions you've heard?

I love your strawberries icon and I love YOU! Maybe if I'm lucky I'll get to go to Boston and spend some time with friends during the whirlwind wedding week. I'll e-mail you if so, yes?

Re: Celebrated Blue Period gem225 July 19 2005, 21:24:38 UTC

No problem. *g* I did enjoy it.

I've heard that tomorrow it'll be less humid here, thank someone or other, and there's supposed to be a thunderstorm coming this afternoon. Wish it'd get here.

I love you too, and I love your Head of Nurse icon. I am strawberry girl - you know, you've seen my hair! Yes, e-mail me if you look to get to Boston. I may not be able to meet up with you due to fucking period (coming any time here - yuck), but if I can I will. I'd love to see you. :-)

samdonne July 19 2005, 21:18:37 UTC

1. I Saw A Sibyl In A Jar
The Schrödinger Variant
Have Snake, Will Travel
Limping Toward Bethlehem
Please Hold Tightly
Two Is Swinging
As I Lay Me Down
Black (Ghosts)
Five Billion Years of Sunshine
Kansas -- on principle2. "It is not until December of that year that Helen's dear friend and erstwhile lover Stanhope Rothschild, teetering on the hostile border of seventy, shows up on her doorstep and hands over custody of what could be called, in more forgiving quarters, a manuscript. By then it is much too late for Helen, or anyone who might have known where to begin -- the late Sal Monroe, perhaps, or Reverend Thomas O'Shea, whom Helen will not meet until the funeral -- to act upon the information contained in the sheaf of loose handwritten pages, plastic-wrapped and stained, and reeking of cheap paper, the scattered mess a gauntlet thrown at Helen's method and orderliness; a challenge, Stan says, thumping her dining room table with the disordered collection, a quest, a test worthy of the most vicious head librarian Cambridge has ever ( ... )

iamsab July 19 2005, 21:30:21 UTC

I think Five Billion Years of Sunshine has been my favorite of your titles, despite the fact that I don't tend to read SG:1 fic. But MAN what a great title, with irony and apocalypse and and sarcasm and thrill.

Gotcher e-mails. Proceeding apace. And THANK YOU.

mazily July 19 2005, 21:35:56 UTC

You are a stronger person than I, resisting the HBP as you are. My copy showed up at 7:30 in the am on a Saturday, and I was finished reading by 10:30. A coffee and a doughnut later, and tangleofthorns and I were hip-deep in character analysis and discussion over the kitchen table.

It is like unto a swamp here in Boston. They keep threatening thunderstorms and rain, but I can still grab chunks of air in my hands. But it has to break sometime, yes? Or so I keep telling myself (they keep telling me). Ugh, and back to work I go.

I think you're putting too much faith in the power of a clean shirt. wearemany July 19 2005, 21:48:25 UTC

Mmm, fan interference IS a stand-up title. The clerk at AmerApp seemed so perplexed that I got to dress you for the wedding but not be your date to it, and now that I think of it, so am I. Love and kisses to all your crazy family and the knocked-up bride-to-be. And be sure to come back alive, because California will miss you.

Re: I think you're putting too much faith in the power of a clean shirt. iamsab July 20 2005, 04:25:13 UTC

Pleeeease come to Massachussetts with me for a week and be my date?!! The wedding's Saturday. Can't you skip town by then and come be with me?????

Re: I think you're putting too much faith in the power of a clean shirt. wearemany July 20 2005, 05:49:46 UTC

baby, i wish i could. i have this newfangled thing called a job starting then, though.

and i have a big funeral on sunday. for which you will totally be neglecting your fake gf duties, too.