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changelingWhy is it that any week I have free feels more busy than weeks in which I merely work full time? I ask merely for information.
Nat's father was being a fruitloop as usual, so no making-books-and-watching-Mary-Poppins for us today. We did go to Chadstone, however, and bought a wide selection of fabric squares and some ribbon (to make our "medicine" bags out of for a ritual at Wendy's tomorrow night), a few crystals, I bought some bathish stuff that I needed, and we also bought childish birthday cards replete with badges (I was 1 today, and Nat was 3) and fairy floss, because we are so grown up.
The lady who wrapped my stone up in red paper as requested told me I "look like a red person". I'm not quite sure what these means, but I am choosing to believe it a compliment.
Nat and I discovered that The Fairy Shop (technically known as Wonderwings) at Chadstone was not there! Woe!
Anyway, after our Chadstonish jaunt, and my dumping my car in Chris and Sara's street, we headed into our weekly coffee group in the city, where Tych promptly offloaded 10 boxes of pocky on me. Liam then bought one, so now I have nine. Hmm... Jemma gave Nat these fantabulous black lace gloves, apparently worth $30, that she'd got free from work as they were sick of having them in inventory. They didn't fit Nat, so she gave them to me. Second hand charity... it's wonderful. Love to Nat and Jemma.
Ray and I walked to Parliament later, losing Liam and Saxon in the process. We both caught the train to Clifton Hill, where his car was, and we drove (technically *he* drove the car--I was just there for the ride) to my car. All in the aid of continuing communications, ie a damn good conversation.
Decided at about 11pm that sewing the bag for tomorrow was a good idea. The thing only took about an hour and a quarter, with much agony wherein I had to completely undo two rows of stitches that I realised needed to be the very last, not the first rows done. I had to fudge it later when another two lines of stitches were done out of order. *sigh* Who would have thought that a simple drawstring bag would be so complicated?
Hoom... bed now. I could swear that I seem to work on a 26 hour sleeping cycle. No wonder I'm permanently tired...
I'm trying (and failing) to find a particular quote in Pratchett's Maskerade, and I'm remembering why it's one of my favourites:
Perdita said: He'll have a vast cave somewhere under the Opera House. There will be hundreds of candles, casting an exciting yet romantic light over the, yes, the lake, and there will be a dinner-table shining with crystal glass and silverware, and of course he will have, yes, a huge organ--
Agnes blushed hotly in the darkness.
--on which, that is to say, he will play in a virtuoso style many operatic classics.
Agnes said: It'll be damp. There will be rats.
Nat's father was being a fruitloop as usual, so no making-books-and-watching-Mary-Poppins for us today. We did go to Chadstone, however, and bought a wide selection of fabric squares and some ribbon (to make our "medicine" bags out of for a ritual at Wendy's tomorrow night), a few crystals, I bought some bathish stuff that I needed, and we also bought childish birthday cards replete with badges (I was 1 today, and Nat was 3) and fairy floss, because we are so grown up.
The lady who wrapped my stone up in red paper as requested told me I "look like a red person". I'm not quite sure what these means, but I am choosing to believe it a compliment.
Nat and I discovered that The Fairy Shop (technically known as Wonderwings) at Chadstone was not there! Woe!
Anyway, after our Chadstonish jaunt, and my dumping my car in Chris and Sara's street, we headed into our weekly coffee group in the city, where Tych promptly offloaded 10 boxes of pocky on me. Liam then bought one, so now I have nine. Hmm... Jemma gave Nat these fantabulous black lace gloves, apparently worth $30, that she'd got free from work as they were sick of having them in inventory. They didn't fit Nat, so she gave them to me. Second hand charity... it's wonderful. Love to Nat and Jemma.
Ray and I walked to Parliament later, losing Liam and Saxon in the process. We both caught the train to Clifton Hill, where his car was, and we drove (technically *he* drove the car--I was just there for the ride) to my car. All in the aid of continuing communications, ie a damn good conversation.
Decided at about 11pm that sewing the bag for tomorrow was a good idea. The thing only took about an hour and a quarter, with much agony wherein I had to completely undo two rows of stitches that I realised needed to be the very last, not the first rows done. I had to fudge it later when another two lines of stitches were done out of order. *sigh* Who would have thought that a simple drawstring bag would be so complicated?
Hoom... bed now. I could swear that I seem to work on a 26 hour sleeping cycle. No wonder I'm permanently tired...
I'm trying (and failing) to find a particular quote in Pratchett's Maskerade, and I'm remembering why it's one of my favourites:
Perdita said: He'll have a vast cave somewhere under the Opera House. There will be hundreds of candles, casting an exciting yet romantic light over the, yes, the lake, and there will be a dinner-table shining with crystal glass and silverware, and of course he will have, yes, a huge organ--
Agnes blushed hotly in the darkness.
--on which, that is to say, he will play in a virtuoso style many operatic classics.
Agnes said: It'll be damp. There will be rats.
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Date: 2003-09-15 09:35 am (UTC)You too? I made a world with a thirty hour day, just so some of my characters at least could have a proper amount of sleep. ^^;
And that quote... XD Damn. Definitely giggle-worthy.
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Date: 2003-09-15 06:51 pm (UTC)*grins* Yep. Now if only I could find the quote I'm looking for...
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Date: 2003-09-15 06:38 pm (UTC)They're so much better the second time. Though to be honest, it's only 'Jingo' and 'Carpe Jugulum', so it's not like I have a long list of disappointing Pratchettania. Still, it turns out that I completely misremembered how Carpe Jugulum went, and so it was almost like reading a new book because my memory of it was so faulty.
However, 'The Last Continent' didn't hold up so well. I think I don't particularly care for the wizards stuff, which might be why I'm not jumping all over the 'Science of the Discworld' books.
However, I know exactly the quote you're referring to from 'Maskerade'. It is very good.
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Date: 2003-09-15 06:47 pm (UTC)I quite like the wizards myself. I'll agree that Carpe Jugulum is not good. Jingo I don't mind, but there's some things I don't like as much. Last Continent I enjoy merely for its usage of Australian folklore.
I found the same thing on rereading The Truth, though; hated it first time around, liked it on the second.
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Date: 2003-09-15 07:00 pm (UTC)I actually quite liked Carpe Jugulum the second time around - at least, more than the first. Jingo, if I don't dwell on the blatantly terrible Lord Rust, is actually much better the second time, and I think to me it was because I read it in a much different frame of mind in terms of war (read: against the backdrop of Iraq) than when it first came out.
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Date: 2003-09-16 10:17 am (UTC)That I requested, but that's beside the point.
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