decompressing ~

[lookingland]

i have been lollygagging since i got off work yesterday (oh, who am i kidding, i lollygagged all through work as well). last night i read a book for the evening and this morning i took the dogs to the park and did all the necessary homework and had sushi for lunch and the weather is fine and life is good. i even tossed some writing into a file that doesn't suck the sweat off a hog's nose.

and it's not even 5 o'clock, with the whole evening ahead! whoohoo!

: D

50bookchallenge:

no. 43 ~ A Tidewater Morning by William Styron. he is still one of the greatest writers ever. i can read his stuff even when it's not necessarily of any interest to me which says volumes. this book is three long shorts or short longs about Paul Whitehurst who grows up in Tidewater, Virginia. the first story about him being in the marines is the best of the three, i think, though the other two definitely have their moments. i'd been saving this book for a rainy day for a long time and last night, with a heady glass of absinthe in hand, was the perfect eve to sit back and enjoy it.

i'm reading Styron's The Long March now, another book i've had forever and was just holding off reading. i'll prolly finish it tonight.

i have also ordered regimental histories of the 51st Pennsylvania to see if there's anything there to see. i know i promised i was done with the research, but you were silly if you believed me. but seriously, i'm not looking for overhaul, i just realized that i hadn't really taken Hanty's military career into consideration and i ought to, just to be fair.

picture of the day: (some of you already saw this one, sorry) this is Colonel J. H. Childs and officers from the 3rd and 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Childs was technically Poppet's superior, though Poppet was in Washington for most of the early years of the war. When Childs was killed at antietam, Poppet got a promotion from major to lt. colonel, and when Childs' replacement (Kerr) quit the army the following spring, Poppet took over the regiment. all told, Poppet only had command of the outfit for a year or so before resigning from the army in '64.



given their service never really intersecting,
i doubt Poppet and Childs knew each other too well
even though they belonged to the same outfit.
i have so many questions about why Poppet was in DC,
instead of with the regiment for so long,
but i doubt they will ever get answered.