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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[ajl_r]

"I have this lunatic superstition that, late at night, time doesn’t pass if you don’t look at the clock."

Oh yes, absolutely. Been there, done that, got the under-eye circles to prove it. :) The phrase "I'm just going to read a few pages" causes my husband to heave a long-suffering sigh, pull the duvet up over his head, and request no laughing because it makes the bed quiver. Restricts the reading choice a bit but hey, there's enough non-quiver-inducing material here to be going on with.

And I just wondered, re bell ringing, does new bell music get composed regularly in the same way other music does or are there certain existing patterns that have always to be conformed to?

[robinmckinley]

request no laughing because it makes the bed quiver.

*********** yES. I remember those days. I miss sleeping together--but our insomniac styles were moving in diametrically different directions before we moved out of the old house--but it does mean I can read ANYTHING I WANT. And that Peter doesn't know just *how* late I go to bed.

And I just wondered, re bell ringing, does new bell music get composed regularly in the same way other music does

********** Yes. Our ringing master composes too.

or are there certain existing patterns that have always to be conformed to?

*********** The classic patterns are as much as most people ever learn. INdeed few people even get through all of them. Bell ringing is full of giant vertiginous leaps. The worst is learning to ring 'inside' however which I have negotiated successfully. I'm PLANNING on growing up to ring the HARD classic patterns. Stay tuned.

[elvenjaneite]

Maybe he spent a lot of time in southeast Alaska or something.
Or the Pacific Northwest.

I'm really from Ohio. We have thunderstorms. Here, it just rains.

[blackbear88]

All Summer in a Day.

The very first Bradbury story I ever read. Still gives me chills to read it (as with most of his works.) Book favoritism is changeable, depends a lot on my mood, sunspots, what have you--but when I am asked who my favorite author is, the answer that always pops out is Bradbury. So the moment you said "I keep thinking about that Ray Bradbury story" I knew precisely which one you meant and instantly thought "YES! Exactly!" before my eye even hit your next word.

And of course there are all these books clustered hopefully around the bed like hellhounds

And THAT sort of imagery is why McKinley is right up there on my favored author list, too. :) Yes. Yes, my books do that too.

[robinmckinley]

Interesting. He wouldn't be for me--there's too much of his stuff that is too far over the Way Fey line. That's how his mind and style works, and that's fine, it's just some of it wanders out on that veldt (ahem) a little too far for me (not that story, however, which is still one of my nightmares). I've got an awful lot of his books. :)

And THAT sort of imagery is why McKinley is right up there on my favored author list, too. :)

************* Thank you! You *do* know I'm not going to sulk if you like another author, don't you? :)

[blackbear88]

If I'd thought you'd sulk, I'd have just not mentioned my Bradbury fondness (nor admitted I've not read Dragonhaven yet.) :) I wasn't worried.

He wouldn't be for me--there's too much of his stuff that is too far over the Way Fey line.

I do know what you mean. But there's something about the way he handles language that just drills right into my core. Some books/authors make me tear up because the story itself is sad or poignant; but Bradbury is one of the few who can make me choke up just with how he turns a phrase. Peter S. Beagle is another. You remember I said somewhere back in the comments that I don't often get books signed, and I have to like the book a lot... I found Mr. Beagle unexpectedly at the San Diego ComicCon this past summer, and I came as close as I have ever gotten to a fangirl moment. I don't squee; I just became totally, stupidly speechless. :)

[robinmckinley]

If I'd thought you'd sulk, I'd have just not mentioned my Bradbury fondness (nor admitted I've not read Dragonhaven yet.) :) I wasn't worried

[davyn]

DUCK! I LOVE duck! My dad is a duck hunter so this works out nicely, though I will admit that we do not bake our duck - being from the southern part of America - we fry it. However, not deep fry it, we chop it up, coat it in mom's special batter, then cook it in a pan.

Marvelous thing duck is! ^^

and that would be my happy fall into duck.

[ssshunt]

>I keep thinking about that Ray Bradbury story** about the school kids in a colony on Venus

I remember that story. Almost broke my heart (I think I was eleven). Ooh, I googled it. It's called "All Summer in a Day."

[robinmckinley]

YOu're not reading my footnotes.

[romantic_india]

*I* did. Do you usually make them that complicated? ;)

" And of course there are all these books clustered hopefully around the bed like hellhounds round you the moment you pick up a dog collar/harness/coat/lead...time doesn’t pass if you don’t look at the clock." Hmm, Rose Daughter comes to mind (my favorite book, by the way)...and of course those late nights spent doing almost anything to put off the moment when one must go to sleep, because one knows that one MUST get up early in the morning for school. Joy.

If only there was a way for us mere mortals to control - or even influence - the weather; us Californians could CERTAINLY use some of that rain! I could almost feel the water being sucked out of my body and into the air, it was that dry.

Anyway, I am so glad that I found your blog! You have been my favorite author (well, tied with Jane Austen) since I read Rose Daughter three years ago, and so I was very excited when I stumbled across this! :) May I please add you as a friend?

[robinmckinley]

* did. Do you usually make them that complicated? ;)

********** Yes, I'm afraid so. It would take more time to make them LESS complicated and I HAVEN'T GOT TIME. As you may notice is the invisible subheading to Days in the Life. :)

" And of course there are all these books clustered hopefully around the bed like hellhounds round you the moment you pick up a dog collar/harness/coat/lead...time doesn’t pass if you don’t look at the clock." Hmm, Rose Daughter comes to mind (my favorite book, by the way)

************* Excellent! Thank you! :)

Anyway, I am so glad that I found your blog! You have been my favorite author (well, tied with Jane Austen)

************ WITH *JANE AUSTEN*? Good grief. Golly. :)

since I read Rose Daughter three years ago, and so I was very excited when I stumbled across this! :) May I please add you as a friend?

************ I ENCOURAGE people to friend me. :)