Chapter 8 of The Aphanes completed

[to_cry_about]

Chapter 8, Blackburn Hamlet, is done. (Read from the beginning)

Also, I just finished reading Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers. The good news: it can still provoke a reaction, after 40 years, and it is readable. Not every hippy po-mo novel can say that for itself. The bad news: F. still comes off as a disgusting, inconsistent bully. And he's

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[brown_betty]

The squeak of joy I made on reading the title cannot be transcribed. It was like my squeak of geeker joy, but from some other source. I went to middle school in Blackburn Hamlet! I hated it! Blackburn Hamlet! Happy hours in Blackburn Hamlet Public Library!

I think being derogatory of CSIS is beyond just law enforcement. I like to pretend that our intelligence agency has a strategy of encouraging people to underestimate them, but I'm afraid they're really just that incompetent.

[to_cry_about]

I left when I was in elementary school (Good Shepherd), but I was dismayed to find out later that Orleans kids think Blackburn Hamlet girls are slutty. The nerve!

CSIS just doesn't have enough to do, I think. You have to have a lot of enemies if you're going to be like Mossad or the CIA.