Monday morning and other nasties

[robinmckinley]

 
Well, it is Monday, after all. You have to expect nasty.
            My nasty started yesterday of course. Or even the night before that. Saturday night we had duck for dinner as you may recall. And I had Gravy* and Gorgeous Golden Crackly Skin.
            And Sunday morning I was 12.37 pounds heavier than I’d been the day before and could barely

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[vikkik]

" . . . And I’ve lost another temporary filling. The one from the root canal redo, which is only five days ago. This is now the third temporary that has fallen out within weeks of its being put in, and the last one took the tooth with it. So I get to waste another several hours of my life going to the dentist tomorrow. What I chiefly want to know-while I have some teeth left-is why this keeps happening

[robinmckinley]

This is SO me!! I ended up reading til about 4am this morning (lucky that I wasn't working today really)just one more chapter......

********* Yes, I was rather hoping that in a blog full of readers this might look familiar. :)

[anonymous]

*****And I’ve lost another temporary filling. The one from the root canal redo, which is only five days ago. This is now the third temporary that has fallen out within weeks of its being put in, and the last one took the tooth with it. So I get to waste another several hours of my life going to the dentist tomorrow. What I chiefly want to know-while I have some teeth left-is why this keeps happening.*****

(*wince*) Unbelievable. If there were a tooth god or goddess, I'd say you did something to anger him/her but good. As it is, there's no one to blame....

I'd try to cheer you up, but you're probably in a foul mood and would reach across the Atlantic to strangle me if I did. At least this dentist isn't making you wait a week and a half and telling you to eat smoothies until then.

Maybe you can think of some productive way to spend the time in the chair. Listen to books on tape, plot your next book about an evil dentist, etc.

Judith

All Summer in a Day

[anonymous]

While I was living in Seattle, someone told me that Bradbury wrote "All Summer in A Day" while HE was living in Seattle.

I haven't a clue if this is true or not but it's a good story nonetheless!

Emily in NM

Re: All Summer in a Day

[robinmckinley]

Ah. Yes. And Seattle is pretty close to southeast Alaska too . . .

[robinmckinley]

Beauty" by Tanith Lee, "North Light" by Mark Helprin

*********** Don't know either of these (although know both writers, she adds hastily). Where find?

Will check out Wexler.

[robinmckinley]

Gods, how embarrassing. I've got RED AS BLOOD. Unfortunately this probably means that her Beauty didn't work for me. As previously observed I'm a cow of a reader however and I'm probably an even worse one over retellings that *I've* retold. Oops. . . . (I think I'll go read it again.)

But the Helprin I genuinely haven't read. Thanks!

That short story

[waystone]

... good grief. I've been looking for that Venus story on and off forever, devoid of name or author - they played us a grainy old filmed version eons ago in middle school but I'd come late and missed the opening and it would have been very uncool to /ask/ - and there it is, reference and all. Nice! :D

I'm going to have to try lunging! My boxer (we go with 'demonspawn' here...) loves to run, and after loping a good five miles next to my bike is still ready to do it all again. Last month we finally gave in and got a dog treadmill in sheer self-defense.

(Newly arrived blog-reader here, long time book-reader, delighted to have the chance to peek into your corner of cyberspace.)

Re: That short story

[robinmckinley]

(we go with 'demonspawn' here...)

*********** LOL! I will have to remember that. One doesn't want to get stuck in a rut.

(Newly arrived blog-reader here, long time book-reader, delighted to have the chance to peek into your corner of cyberspace.)

************ Thank you!