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changelingThings that are currently making me happy:
1. I have tea. Not the same tea as last time I posted about having tea, obviously, as it would be cold by now, and I am Not That Big A Fan of cold tea. In fact, I'm on my second pot, and I still have half a potful, and it's still hot, but drinkable hot.
2. I saw Kij Johnson use "&c.", which confirms that what I told Copperbadge was correct. Which is always good. And I really do use &c. I love it. I also use the ampersand in place of writing out "and" frequently, and it is a deliberate throwback to the Regency period & Jane Austen (see? I just used it then, utterly unconsciously). It may have taken me a long time to get through Pride & Prejudice (I had to read it for school), but I love the use of ampersand & also the spelling of "connexion". I am a sad literary geek.
3. Kurt Elling's song "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing". I'm pretty sure this is a cover of an older song, but I just love his sudden barbershop quartet with himself partway through. And also Laurence Hobgood's piano work. Kurt + Laurence = Musical Magic. I am still annoyed by the fact that I have not seen them play live, as I know Elling & co. have come out to Australia several times.
I still regret loaning two of my Elling CDs* to a certain member of the University of Melbourne Music Faculty, who was sound/music designer for Relic, as I promptly lost contact with him and never heard from him again. He never returned the CDs. I merely hope that he appreciates them thoroughly. I could cope with their loss if that was the case, although it is still vexing.
4. Wendy Rule's jazz CD (A Night of Jazz with Wendy Rule & Friends). I am still shiny about the fact that I was there when they recorded it last year. And dammit, I enjoyed it on the night, but multiple listens have turned it into utter LOVE. The only exception appears to be "Summertime", for some reason, as I always want to relisten to "Love Me or Leave Me" in its place instead. I have no idea why.
5. Fonts. I've just spent a pleasant while unzipping some of the fonts I had previously downloaded ( have still over 100 fonts downloaded that are not yet unzipped), and I am about to install them. Unfortunately, several of them are of a distictly Victorian bent, and would have proved useful in the current layout, but such is life. I have also downloaded a further dozen, which I shall install posthaste.
6. My current connection with Deity (which is many and varied).
7. My "To-Buy" list of books. I have a piece of paper blu-tacked to my computer desk with the books I am going to buy when I have paid off my car insurance & registration (ie, after I find a second job, at this rate).
So far I have:
The ISBNs are there because I have little doubt that I will have to order these books in, and this way I can be precise to the people ordering them in.
I am something of a chronic bibliophile, and there are few joys in this world that compare with getting a new book -- except possibly getting a new graphic novel. But getting a new book ordered in, especially a hardcover, is something again, and it is even sweeter. I have, due to my poor financial status this year, been only able to purchase two books for reading pleasure, viz. Ichabod Hart and the Lighthouse Mystery, which I purchased as it touted itself to be Australian steampunk and was also only about $12. (It is YA fiction.) It was passable. I also purchased Flights: Visions of Extreme Fantasy, which I had to get ordered in, and which was a hardcover. It is a beautiful book, although their design was (to me) marred by their use of the font Abaddon for headings as I am utterly unenamoured by said font. I think it is quite passé, frankly.
Still, merely the making of such a list goes partway to sating the booklover's passion. No really. Well, it has to do, for the moment, as our capitalist society requires the purchasing of goods for them to come into one's possession.
I was honestly going to post briefly about the way I passed the last couple of days, but this post is already getting quite long, so I shall leave it here for the moment.
*Have just realised. Not only does he have The Messenger, which I didn't own long enough to become attached to, he has This Time It's Love. I wish I knew where he was in order to take him apart, joint by joint. Damn his eyes, & damn his duckpond. I really wish I had the money to replace those two CDs, but alas, I do not.
Edited to add:
8. My current "Navigation" images. And the spelling "Temptacyon".
1. I have tea. Not the same tea as last time I posted about having tea, obviously, as it would be cold by now, and I am Not That Big A Fan of cold tea. In fact, I'm on my second pot, and I still have half a potful, and it's still hot, but drinkable hot.
2. I saw Kij Johnson use "&c.", which confirms that what I told Copperbadge was correct. Which is always good. And I really do use &c. I love it. I also use the ampersand in place of writing out "and" frequently, and it is a deliberate throwback to the Regency period & Jane Austen (see? I just used it then, utterly unconsciously). It may have taken me a long time to get through Pride & Prejudice (I had to read it for school), but I love the use of ampersand & also the spelling of "connexion". I am a sad literary geek.
3. Kurt Elling's song "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing". I'm pretty sure this is a cover of an older song, but I just love his sudden barbershop quartet with himself partway through. And also Laurence Hobgood's piano work. Kurt + Laurence = Musical Magic. I am still annoyed by the fact that I have not seen them play live, as I know Elling & co. have come out to Australia several times.
I still regret loaning two of my Elling CDs* to a certain member of the University of Melbourne Music Faculty, who was sound/music designer for Relic, as I promptly lost contact with him and never heard from him again. He never returned the CDs. I merely hope that he appreciates them thoroughly. I could cope with their loss if that was the case, although it is still vexing.
4. Wendy Rule's jazz CD (A Night of Jazz with Wendy Rule & Friends). I am still shiny about the fact that I was there when they recorded it last year. And dammit, I enjoyed it on the night, but multiple listens have turned it into utter LOVE. The only exception appears to be "Summertime", for some reason, as I always want to relisten to "Love Me or Leave Me" in its place instead. I have no idea why.
5. Fonts. I've just spent a pleasant while unzipping some of the fonts I had previously downloaded ( have still over 100 fonts downloaded that are not yet unzipped), and I am about to install them. Unfortunately, several of them are of a distictly Victorian bent, and would have proved useful in the current layout, but such is life. I have also downloaded a further dozen, which I shall install posthaste.
6. My current connection with Deity (which is many and varied).
7. My "To-Buy" list of books. I have a piece of paper blu-tacked to my computer desk with the books I am going to buy when I have paid off my car insurance & registration (ie, after I find a second job, at this rate).
So far I have:
The Labyrinth, Catherynne M. Valente, Wildside Press (2004?). ISBN: 1894815653
Pedestrian Wolves, James L. Grant, Prime Books, 2004. ISBN: 1894815149
Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales, Deborah Noyes (ed.), Candlewick [Press?]. ISBN: 0763622435
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, Datlow & Windling, Viking 2004. ISBN: 0670059145
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury 2004. [ISBN not yet researched] -- I plan on purchasing the black cover.
The ISBNs are there because I have little doubt that I will have to order these books in, and this way I can be precise to the people ordering them in.
I am something of a chronic bibliophile, and there are few joys in this world that compare with getting a new book -- except possibly getting a new graphic novel. But getting a new book ordered in, especially a hardcover, is something again, and it is even sweeter. I have, due to my poor financial status this year, been only able to purchase two books for reading pleasure, viz. Ichabod Hart and the Lighthouse Mystery, which I purchased as it touted itself to be Australian steampunk and was also only about $12. (It is YA fiction.) It was passable. I also purchased Flights: Visions of Extreme Fantasy, which I had to get ordered in, and which was a hardcover. It is a beautiful book, although their design was (to me) marred by their use of the font Abaddon for headings as I am utterly unenamoured by said font. I think it is quite passé, frankly.
Still, merely the making of such a list goes partway to sating the booklover's passion. No really. Well, it has to do, for the moment, as our capitalist society requires the purchasing of goods for them to come into one's possession.
I was honestly going to post briefly about the way I passed the last couple of days, but this post is already getting quite long, so I shall leave it here for the moment.
*Have just realised. Not only does he have The Messenger, which I didn't own long enough to become attached to, he has This Time It's Love. I wish I knew where he was in order to take him apart, joint by joint. Damn his eyes, & damn his duckpond. I really wish I had the money to replace those two CDs, but alas, I do not.
Edited to add:
8. My current "Navigation" images. And the spelling "Temptacyon".
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Date: 2004-09-11 10:36 pm (UTC)Whisky drinkers may disagree here, though.
- Mel
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Date: 2004-09-12 12:15 am (UTC)