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May 8th, 2012
 | 05:41 pm - Minor annoyances
Tolerable Monday night in which I saw some TV with Mom and got the latter part of the toe and an entire repeat of the Mad Color Weave pattern done on the rainbow sock. (Feeling the urge to do the Slippery Socks pattern with the yarn instead, because the yarn is pooling in the alternating-colors way that the Slippery pattern really works best with, but I don't want to do it for a third pair when I'm still less than halfway through the second pair.) Dozed off with the lights on again, preventing me from getting properly to bed before midnight. Ah, well. Maybe I'll catch up on sleep tonight.
And today is about me playing LJ friends list catchup, having entirely forgotten this morning about my long weekend and having five days' worth of posts to wade through. Yes, I should have made a point of checking in at some point during my long weekend, but the computer time got eaten by Tumblr (or sleeping or reading) and there was the whole thing where the AC being out makes my bedroom an unpleasant place to hang out in as well as making me reluctant to turn the computer on. God, I hope the AC gets fixed tomorrow. Which is going to require A) the repairman to show up for the appointment Mom made, B) the necessary repairs to be cheap enough to be covered by what Mom got from Grandma for the purpose, and C) Mom to decide she can justify spending the money on a technically postponable repair when in the grips of a budgetary emergency. (She had some unexpected difficulties in filing for unemployment yesterday, since she went to the local office and got shooed home to do it on the phone and then couldn't actually get through to anyone on the phone. The situation is complicated by her having been in the system from her previous period of unemployment, before she got the job that just let her go last week.)
Linked by  calligrafiti / ![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) calligrafiti: Dear girls of the world today... -- "Collect dolls or knives or books or interesting rocks. Watch horror movies or romances or cartoons. Run races; go to spas. Eat cake or lettuce. Buy yourself a toy light saber and make your own wooooom noises while you wave it around; build a cardboard castle and chuck plush mushrooms at your would-be rescuers. Live your life, the way you want to live it, and understand that no one can kick you out of 'the girl club' for doing it wrong, because you're not. You're doing it exactly right, and I love you for that."
Linked by commodorified / commodorified: Glaswegian shoes come off for bouncy Stonehenge -- "Two thousand people a day have come to frolic on Jeremy Deller's latest artwork – a bouncy castle that is a precise replica of Stonehenge. Men, women, children: all leap, stride and somersault on Glasgow's new favourite playground before it travels south to become one of the attractions of the London 2012 festival. A neat idea, you might think. Sacrilege, as Deller has called his work, is not only a lot of fun (it is impossible not to smile when you shed your shoes, dignity, and understanding of gravity), but also thought-provoking. The artist has transformed a great symbol of British history into a party. In real life, you cannot get near Stonehenge. Open to myriad interpretations and fantasies over its long history, it has now been given yet another existence through Deller's impish version of a grand public sculpture"
ursulav posted another Annotated Fairy Tale: The Wonderful Birch -- "Joseph Campbell said once that there was only one consistent rule in fairy tales–'Anyone that animals like, or whom they assist in any way, wins.' (Exceptions are made for a few classes of animals, I believe—wolves can go either way, and there’s a lot of freaky domestic animals belonging to giants and whatnot.) And this is mostly true. You can’t even go with 'Be kind' or 'Be polite' because now and again that bites you in the ass (and I’ll post one about that sometime here soon.) I would argue, however, that there may actually be one more–'Cannibalism Always Ends Badly.' The bit about animals made a great impression on me when I was young, and anyway, as my father always said, 'If dogs don’t like him, don’t date him.' But I have also avoided dating cannibals, just on the off chance."
And of course ursulav's annotated fairy tales are generally well worth the reading, but this little segment resonated with me because while I was over at Dad's house on Thursday my eye was caught by his copy of Eat Thy Neighbor: A History of Cannibalism, and in fact I found a few moments to read the first chapter. He offered to lend it to me, but I refused since I'm already feeling guilty about the number of his books that I've borrowed and not gotten around to reading and returning (two of which got dampened when my water bottle leaked in my backpack some months ago). I thought I'd just buy my own copy on Kindle and have a better chance of actually reading it -- so of course I got home to find it's not available on Kindle. Whoops. (Except I managed to track down an e-book version anyway, through Google Play. Won't work for my Kindle unless I can convert it with Calibre, but I'm presuming it will be fine as-is for the Mobipocket Reader on my phone.)
Speaking of e-books, Soulless is just $.99 for Kindle or Nook this week, so if you haven't checked out the series, it's a good time to look into it.
Oh, and it turns out Google Play e-books don't want to play with Mobipocket or the Kobo app I installed to my phone specifically for the purpose (it having been listed as one of the formats they play well with). There's proprietary formatting and probably DRM involved and it's all just gone to leave me resolved not to buy any other e-books from Google Play because I'm going to have to read this one tethered to a computer. Dammit. (Really regretting not having just borrowed Dad's book.) Perfect example of why people wind up resorting to piracy just to get to read/view something they were willing to pay for (and possibly just did).
Crossposted from Dreamwidth with  comments made.
Current Mood:  annoyed
Current Music: String quartet Fall Out Boy cover
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