Friday!

[shadesong]

Administration
Happy birthday to ellen_kushner!

Happy early birthday to thryn, who advances a year over the weekend!

Hello to new reader adrian_turtle!

Medical
Ow. Ow. Ow. One of the things about fibro is that is makes you aware of muscles that you were hitherto unaware of. I'm all for learning new things. I just don't like fibro's methods here, which = pain, stiffness, and soreness.

As for brain drugs... the most common side effects of Lyrica are dizziness, sleepiness, dry mouth, swelling of hands and feet, blurry vision, weight gain, and trouble concentrating. I already had so much/many of these from the other drugs that it's hard to tell if I have some of them now - for instance, my brainfog was so thorough on the Trileptal that I may be at 80% capacity now, I may be at 90%, but since I was at about 10% a month ago, everything looks good from here! So that's why I've not been mentioning the brain drugs as much. Give me a bit to settle into them and see if I have any major complaints. But if things continue as they are, and the Lyrica actually controls my seizures? This, I can live with!

Daily Science
One of the most exciting results in biology last year was a possible violation of the most basic rules of genetic inheritance, reported to occur in the lab plant Arabidopsis. If true, it would be an enormous discovery. But in a brief communication published in last week's Nature, a second group reports they were unable to replicate the result, which is generally not a good sign.

Daily BPAL
Dragon's Hide: Flame-kissed, warm, smooth, and highly protective. Dragon’s blood, leather and a hint of smoke.

In bottle: ...bitter. Hm.

On me: Blech! Double blech! I'm not even picking up the leather. Off to Layni it goes. She's a fan of all things Ars Draconis, thanks to nycorson...

The Scales of Deprivation: Thin, dark, and shadowed. A scent that offers no sustenance, comfort or satiety: lemon peel, white sage, frankincense, lavender fougere, sandalwood, vetiver and labdanum.

In bottle: A sweetness, with sage.

On me: Sweet sage and oh, labdanum. Labdanum always works like whoa on me. This was a frimp - I would never have tried something with lemon peel and lavender fougere. That shows me! Neither of them are showing up here. Just sage and labdanum. Which makes for a happy 'song. :)

Friday memeage!
Wearing
Polka-dot pajamas, still. I'll get dressed later. Adam's taking Elayna to the bus stop, and we have a few hours before I have to take him to the MARTA station.

Reading
Santa Steps Out, by Robert Deveraux. Officially the wrongest book ever. This is a re-read; I discovered the book in a pile of papers downstairs and dived in!

Elayna is Reading
Many Waters, by Madeline L'Engle, and So You Want To Be a Wizard, by Diane Duane. She's not nearly as into Many Waters as the others in the series - I think the lack of Charles Wallace irks her. A Wind in the Door was her favorite.
So You Want To Be a Wizard, she didn't want to try; we read at the bus stop, and I pulled it out, and she objected. As she often does to stuff I suggest, because she is becoming a teenager. Anyway. I said, "Give it one day. If you don't like it, we can read something else." I read to her til the bus came, closed the book, looked up at her: "That was amazing!", she said. Yep. Mama's always right. :)

Planning
Friday: Taking Adam to the MARTA station and running errands, then packing! Elayna is going to an art gallery opening with a friend tonight - being kidfree for a planned four to five hours, I may go to a movie. What's playing? (EDIT: Oooh, new Tony Jaa!) harkalark will arrive at about the same time Elayna returns, to stay through the weekend. :)

Saturday: Adam is looking at houses in Arlington, Watertown, and Newton. I am dropping Elayna off for Girl Scout Day at a local corn maze, having noisy sex with harkalark in the absence of the child, then packing like a madwoman. kissmythistle will be over to lend a hand. With the packing. Not the noisy sex. skyra may join us. All are welcome - just let me know you're coming so I know how many pizzas to get! Saturday night, I will collapse.

Sunday: Bakin' a cake! My chocolate bourbon cake, for the Bundt Cake Smackdown in Decatur. I'll be at the festival pretty much all day - they have lots of stuff to do, from the Smackdown to a Dia de los Muertos celebration, crafts, et cetera...

You?

Comments

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

I didn't like Many Waters as much as the others; I didn't think Sandy and Dennys were nearly as interesting as the rest of the family. You did know that there's a fifth book, right? About Meg and Calvin's daughter?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I do, but I don't have it... must stalk used bookstores!

[jmspencer.livejournal.com]

There are, if I recall correctly, a total of 9 books in the series (I stopped reading halfway through Many Waters... I just didn't care about the twins. Years later I picked up An Acceptable Time, realized it was a continuation of the same series but that there was a large hole in my reading, and put it back down. (I don't often read series out of order, and nothing about that book really compelled me to.)

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Really? I didn't realize there were that many. Hmm.

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

PaperbackSwap.com has a copy....

[gegenschein.livejournal.com]

So You Want to Be a Wizard used to be one of my favorites!

Now I want to go immerse myself in the YA section of Borders. :P

[enderfem.livejournal.com]

I've been going back to all those YA books I never read. I have an icky commute sometimes, and now a car. So the local library has helped me out, and I've "read" A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door and I got an email saying A Swiftly Tilting Planet is now ready for me, so I'll get it tomorrow. They're read by the author, which is awesome. I love reading, but I also love being read to, so it makes me quite happy. (chemokitty has read four books to me over the phone in the past year.)

Yay for the same books as Elayna!

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Duane's Wizirdry series always makes me tear up. And I haven't even tried to read the..5th? Yeah, I think 5th one, which is supposed to be really sad...

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Santa Steps Out, by Robert Deveraux. Officially the wrongest book ever.

Please to be elaborating on the wrongness...

I got fond of A Wind in the Door, too, once I finally read it -- never read it as a kid; I'd only read Wrinkle -- though when I re-read the first book and then read Door and Planet back in 2001, I decided the first book was still somehow more elegant in its writing than the others. But I love that scene in Door with the multiple principals marching around like dweeb Agent Smiths.

[zeyr.livejournal.com]

neo_blackwolf just picked up Many Waters using a gift card he got as a late birthday present. He hasn't started reading it yet...he got distracted by a re-read of the Belgariad after finishing some other random book he picked up on the gift card... :)

I've tried twice already to get him into So You Want to Be a Wizard. It is right up his alley, but he has been resistant. I figure I'll try again sometime this winter. I have most of them...and have read all that I have.

Kelyn

[spiritchaser1.livejournal.com]

Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance, but I only got about 1/4 way through Santa Steps Out.

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

Santa Steps Out is the cat's ass. I try to make people read it - for much the same reason I try to make them read the Grossest Porn Story Ever or watch Ankle Biters. Heh.

The Wizardry series is one of my favorites. There's 8 or 9 books so far and more to come.

[manifestress.livejournal.com]

Let me know how and when I can help!

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Looks like we're all getting started about 11ish/noonish tomorrow. :) Boxes are welcome too!

Thank you! :)

[ringrrl416.livejournal.com]

I never liked Many waters as much as the other books either. I think she wrote it in a slightly different style, and it came out after the other 3 books (i think?) so you kind of had to go figure out where it was actually suppose to fit in. Big pain

but I love all those books.....

:-)

[ydnic.livejournal.com]

Uh, should I show up at the same time? I will make sure to knock loudly. :D :D

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Hee! You're coming at 11, right? We'll, ah, make sure to come before 11. ;)

Go go gadget weekend!

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

Wearing: brown velour long skirt, black simple shirt, deep pink button-down Old Navy long-sleeved shirt, black fleece jacket, earrings.
Reading: Skinny Legs and All, by Tom Robbins. I think I read something else by him recently, and this is worse. His use of language is probably what some consider evocative, witty, irreverant, amusing, but I call distracting, annoying, overdone, annoying, and a bit annoying. Also, I'm not sure I like what he's saying about the basis of the Yahwehistic religion, and since I don't know the research he's done to tell his story (which is, after all, fiction), it's just rubbing me the wrong way. Aside from the preaching, the story part isn't bad.
Planning: Tonight, brief service and sukkah pot-luck dinner at a friends' with about 50-55 other people. Tomorrow, Sunday: services, meals in a number of sukkot, lots of walking. Also, maybe baking Sunday eve, maybe Monday eve: banana bread, pumpkin muffins w/cranberry and chocolate chips.

I love this season. It smells like sukkot; green/brown leaves, wet grass, cloudy, winds, crisp or nearly so, autumn in the north-east. As long as one dresses with respect to it, it's fabulous.

Re: Go go gadget weekend!

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I have always loved Sukkot. :)

Nature in religion.

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

There's definitely an appeal to holidays that celebrate nature, for any season. Sukkot, Pesach, Tu B'Shvat, Shavuot: we might not be pagan, but we don't ignore the physical world in pursuit of the spiritual one.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Wearing: jeans, bare feet, black peasant-style t-shirt.
Reading: 'Close Range: Wyoming Stories' (Annie Proulx)
Planning: Today: kiddo has a follow-up with his pediatrician. Tomorrow: Nothing. Sunday: Taking tallin to his belated-birthday-brunch here (http://www.portagebaycafe.com).

[missakins.livejournal.com]

I was planning to come over tomorrow, is there a time I should not show up before?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Not before 11. Noon is perfect.

Thanks!

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

I am dropping Elayna off for Girl Scout Day at a local corn maze, having noisy sex with harkalark in the absence of the child, then packing like a madwoman. kissmythistle will be over to lend a hand. With the packing. Not the noisy sex. skyra may join us. All are welcome - just let me know you're coming so I know how many pizzas to get!

All are welcome to lend a hand with the noisy sex?

[harkalark.livejournal.com]

I feel dirty.

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

Yay! My work here is done.

[katster.livejournal.com]

Wearing: When I finally get dressed, probably my long-sleeved LJ shirt (I need to get another one of those) and either blue or black jeans. Right now I'm still in my pajamas.

Reading: I just finished Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century which is an anthology of short stories, and I'm now starting with a book called Magic Steps, which is the first of four books in a YA series that looked kinda interesting on the library shelves.

(Yes, I still love reading YA fic even though I'm in my late twenties...)

Planning: To do my homework, watch the Cal game on Saturday, and begin packing for a week in the Bay Area. That about sums it up.

As for So You Want to be a Wizard..., somebody recommended it to me when I was kvetching about Rowling writing so slow and I really wanted my HP fix right now. That said, Duane is better, and I've given out several copies of that book to friends. (I'm also sponsoring Duane's experiment in publishing serially on the Internet because of it.)

(And the one in the series in which the main character's mom is battling cancer? I read that when my own mom was going through the same fight and I cried.)

-kat

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

where does the scales of desperation come from? I don't think I've seen that, is it a LE that they are frimping or have I just not spotted it amidst the bluejillion other damn things there are??