I don't think I could survive that kind of cold. I love the idea of Alaska. I just think the reality of living there is unfathomable (whether its wicked bitter cold, unbearable mosquitoes or extreme Fairbanks heat).
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Feb 06, 2008 6:39:10 pm PST #8065 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
hippocampus - Feb 06, 2008 6:43:42 pm PST #8066 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
He mentions that in Hebrew the word grace is an anagram of Noah. Life is weird.
Blog entry? meh? maybe.
maybe it's just the good food and great conversations doing something to my brain, but I read this and thought - wow, I'd like to see that blog entry, or whatever it becomes.
Kat - Feb 06, 2008 6:45:10 pm PST #8067 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Nope. Do I use a blog entry for my writing piece for tomorrow?
Nah. I'll just use a previous piece. Then I'll add to it for the other writing group.
BigDuluth - Feb 06, 2008 7:01:31 pm PST #8068 of 10001
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
What kind of writing does your writing group do Kat?
Kat - Feb 06, 2008 7:15:06 pm PST #8069 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Well, for tomorrow, it's a work thing. So it's teachers who are on release time from their school site and instructional coaches like me. People do all sorts of stuff, but it usually gets compiled into an anthology that is sent to all the school sites. It's not a very personal group so I'm hesitant to share personal writing.
My usual group is also teachers. Or rather retired teachers and me. I'm the youngest member by like 35 years. They've been meeting for 20+ years and I joined three years ago. I do share a lot of more personal stuff I'm working on there.
For tomorrow, I'll take a poem I started about the carillon at UCLA. Boring but distant enough and work appropriate. For the other, I'll take another chapter in a thing I've been writing about infertility.
Kat - Feb 06, 2008 7:22:44 pm PST #8070 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
And I'm done!!
The baby sleeps and so must I. Good night!
Hil R. - Feb 06, 2008 7:23:46 pm PST #8071 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Anyone around who knows German and can get on IM for a minute? (I've got a link to some scans of photocopies of prints of microfilms of birth/marriage/death records for a little German village in the 1800s. I pretty much just need some help figuring out the structure -- like, the marriage records list about 8 names, and two of them are the bride and groom, then there are their parents, and the witnesses, and the rabbi, and I just need help figuring out whose name went where. It's horrible image quality and the old-fashioned German script, so I'm having a bit of trouble.)
Burrell - Feb 06, 2008 7:32:05 pm PST #8072 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
He mentions that in Hebrew the word grace is an anagram of Noah.
That is utterly beautiful, Kat.
javachik - Feb 06, 2008 7:43:47 pm PST #8073 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
SOX! And d! Thanks for a fantastic evening of wonderful food and boobie conversation!!
§ ita § - Feb 06, 2008 7:46:41 pm PST #8074 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He mentions that in Hebrew the word grace is an anagram of Noah
That is lovely.
The people who thought "Oh, get support hose, ita" owe me $71.95 + tax. And those are only moderately supportive. I just hope they're more "better than nothing" than "nothing."
msbelle, I still need to hug that kid.