and in other news ~

[lookingland]

a whole bunch of not-work getting done this morning. who can work on a saturday anyway?

i need to go to confession later this afternoon, so it's hard to get focused on anything but that. meanwhile, i keep surfing around mindlessly.

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starting writing episode xxvii last night (in Art's voice). i don't know Art very well, so this will take a lot of massaging. anyone on my flist from ohio? anything particular about the way ohio-people talk that i ought to know about?

truth still is, i just get tired when i try to think about how to tackle Reconstruction these days. it's like that critter in The Thing when the guy's head falls off and sprouts legs and skitters away ~ and here's me with a blow torch saying: "you gotta be effin' kidding."

problem is, i don't want to torch it, i want to make friends with it and keep it in a nice-lined box and make it wear a funny hat and call it booboo-fritter.

didn't i just say in a post earlier that i don't tend to talk about my writing as if it were alive? so much for that.

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i've also decided that if i hope to get a move-on with regards to the 50bookchallenge i'm going to have to give up on doctorow. so pathetic. i managed to read a dreadful victorian novel positively oozing purple prose and laughable dialogue, but couldn't make it past chapter three of doctorow's award-winning The March. sigh and piffle. i've no idea and am tired of speculating. back to the library you go, silly book. hey, i tried.

now i'll need to find new books to read. i've lost my list (ha!). i may just go browse the shelves and pick things off ~ it's seemed to work well so far ~ i haven't loved everything i've read, but i've found some interesting stuff. the new Montmorency should be out by now, come to the think of it (yup, just checked ~ unfortunately it's gotten feh-feh reviews...hmmm). i'd also considered reading more sigrid undset, so i may yet pick up Kristin Lavransdatter. nobel prize winner vs. lurid children's book? tough choice.

(now i want to go to the bookstore!)

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we will now conclude this mindless entry with a nice picture.



the Rouen market about 1873

Comments

[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

problem is, i don't want to torch it, i want to make friends with it and keep it in a nice-lined box and make it wear a funny hat and call it booboo-fritter.

Booboo-fritter, huh? Interesting....

Maybe it's just not time yet? Maybe you just need to let it stew a little more?

didn't i just say in a post earlier that i don't tend to talk about my writing as if it were alive?

Glad you decided to join the club! :)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

do i get a member's id card and a monthly newsletter?

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[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

I might be able to swing that...for a price ;)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

aw man, i gotta pay dues??? this club sux!

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[daregale.livejournal.com]

Oh read Kristin! You really should.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

they have it in three books at the library ~ i think if i read it that way (instead of the whole enchilada in one whack) perhaps it won't feel so unwieldy! The Bridal Wreath is the first book. maybe i'll go pick it up later.

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[xstitchfla.livejournal.com]

a whole bunch of not-work getting done this morning. who can work on a saturday anyway?

Boy do you have that straight. I'm sitting here drinking Killians Irish Red and having last nights Scallops and Shrimp in Garlic Sauce Extra Spicy for lunch. Somehow anything on the net seems so much more interesting than doing tax returns!!!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

that's because it is ~ ! hahahahaha ~

good luck with that!

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[la-vita-nuova.livejournal.com]

I think most poeple from Ohio have little to no accent - they have more that "newscaster" accent I guess - one which doesn't reflect any particular region.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

that's interesting ~ my theory is that it's an early westward melting pot that assimmilated quickly ~ you find populations without especially pronounced regionalisms in areas early settled by a variety of people who then intermarried and watered the speech particularities.

hmmm ~

[la-vita-nuova.livejournal.com]

I agree up to a point...is Chicago considered an early westward melting pot? They definitely have an accent there.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i think that's partly because Chicago was less likely to intermarry ~ it was deeply segregated culturally for a long time with a particularly dense italian population that did not play with others (and for a lot of reasons!).