I'm just back from Christmas with the rellos. First I went to Christmas breakfast at my parents' house (in my mother's psychologist consulting room) and then to lunch at a restaurant with my parents and Sister. My uncle didn't send his usual unintentionally hilarious family letter this year. Probably his heart wasn't in it after his wife, my aunt A, died this year. My aunt B (also suffering ...
Московский музей современного искусства отпраздновал 10-летний юбилей. На вернисаж пришла вся художественная Москва... 48 фото... фото by Vassilissa Glukhova
I went to therapy today. Near the end of the session: My psych: Do you know what word has been missing for the past ten or twelve minutes? Me: Reasonable? My psych: You should have a huge banner in your home saying BE REASONABLE. Well, I didn't want a banner. But maybe a nice tasteful cross-stitch? So I went to Spotlight on the way home. I've finished the lettering. What's left to do is the ...
I was taking a short break from writing the big Scrabble scene in my NaNoWriMo novel, which required me to actually get out the board and play for four people, one of whom is a telepath and knows what tiles the other three have. Then the entirely predictable happened: Let me just reconsider that plot.
It's 1:24 and I've written 1725 words. Some necessary things for NaNoWriMo: Beatrice Beatrice again Jerry Diet Coke Scroggin Sorry about the image quality, I used the camera in my Eee.
I went and saw the four o'clock showing of Julie and Julia at Highpoint today. It was good except that Highpoint shuts at 5:30, and I parked my car up on the third level of the south end, so I had to walk right around the outside of Highpoint and then up the car ramp to reclaim it. I'll never do what Julie did, but I do love some food porn. I'm reading Kerry Greenwood's Forbidden Fruit . It's...
... manuscript by Boris Zvorykin, which contains 4 traditional fairy tales: The Firebird, Maria Morevna, The Snow Maiden, and Vassilissa the Fair (illustrations in the link above). This is my favorite, and also a source of childhood grief.... so I could recite it for him at bedtime, and today I'm going to try to learn Vassilissa the Fair. It's kind of fun. :) And then this morning I found an link to a ...
