It's the practical details that make the Fire story feel so
very,
since of course London really had been to Alaska.
One detail I'd love to work into a story of mine is how the housewives used to tell if the oven was hot enough for baking: hold your hand into it, and count out loud until you couldn't stand it anymore. Through practice, you'd determine that the oven was hot enough say when you couldn't count beyond ten or whatever.
Pretty sure I haven't read The Pearl. I know I haven't read Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden. Makes it a lot easier to like Steinbeck, I'd wager.
I've gotten into the habit of having Trader Joe's drinkable yogurt before bed, some vague notion of calcium and vitamin d being good for sleep and live cultures being generally good. Tonight's set ING tasted kind of funny, like maybe it was considering making a career change to cheese, so after I drank I checked the expiry date: Aug 10. That's probably not going to hurt me, right?
Maybe you'll wake up with superpowers, -t.
A friend posted this on FB [link] and I really want to say that the meme reads like a prompt for slash fic, but I'm afraid that's the wrong corner of my friendslist. I don't want to end up trying to explain slash.
Hah that totally sounds like RPF, aurelia!!
I had a friend remind me of the Expert Consultant sketch tonight, where the need to draw seven red lines, perpendicular to each other. And two should be in transparent ink, and one in green ink. And one in the shape of a kitten? It's too real.
Surgery~ma!
I am tired. There's a wonderful documentaries film festival at the library this week, but I may have ordered one more ticket than I should have, energywise. All events are wonderful (saw RBG last night, and The Other Side of Everything the day before - highly recommended), but there's one more screening + live show tonight which I might be too tired to enjoy.
Lots of surgery~ma! I wish the roller coaster stuff wasn't so common with medical procedures, but it is.
Pretty sure I didn't read The Pearl or To Build a Fire, but memory of what I have read isn't that great. I generally avoid depressing fiction and have a strong preference for characters I would enjoy hanging with for a time. That said I loved Grapes of Wrath and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Mostly now I read much lighter choices.
I find yogurt expiration dates to be pretty loose. Here's to superpowers!
A friend posted this on FB [link]
Wow, people are whack. Why? Also, I don't think it is possible for any Trump fic to be entertaining. Way too much thinking of him already.
Shir, I hope you are able to find the energy to enjoy the shows. Sometimes entertainment can be invigorating.
ION, it is 45 here this morning! 60 inside the house. I am bundled in sweat clothes and turned on the portable heaters.
Laura, I want to sing "Autumn in New York" to you, but that's really about the city.
Best thoughts to your dad, Sue!!