Update

[electricland]

Better today. I did some copy editing yesterday afternoon, which made a nice change, and took my books back to the library and got some new ones out and then hit the grocery store. I was all set to go home and cook (well, I say "cook"... I bought pasta and Classico sauce because I didn't feel up to real cooking) but as I walked past the Korean restaurant next to the Claremont (Maison de Seoul, I believe it's called) I realized that what I really, really needed was some good spicy food. So I dumped my groceries at my apartment and came back and they fed me 5 separate appetizers (lots o' kimchee) plus tofu in seafood broth and really amazing rice. Home by 9:30 and crawled straight into bed. I'm definitely getting yet another cold, but I think I'll live.

Books read/finished: Foucault's Pendulum (oh so immeasurably better than The Da Vinci Code -- why has the latter been on the bestseller lists for a year? -- although perhaps I am biased because it starts from a position of skepticism whereas TDVC goes for the "unseen forces are at work all around us" approach; I never liked the conspiracy episodes on X-Files either). The Shortest Way to Hades (reminding me yet again that I need to have someone explain to me, in depth, a) cricket and b) the difference between a barrister and a solicitor -- yes, I KNOW one argues in court and the other doesn't, but I would like more detail please). Desolation Island. Several others. (I finally learned just my last trip to the library that Hamish Macbeth started as a series of books! Coolness.)

Work is not bad, but not great either.

Hope you all have a lovely day!

Comments

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

The Shortest Way to Hades (reminding me yet again that I need to have someone explain to me, in depth, a) cricket and b) the difference between a barrister and a solicitor -- yes, I KNOW one argues in court and the other doesn't, but I would like more detail please).

a) T'as vu La Grande Séduction? :-)

b) I just checked online...

Barrister: A lawyer admitted to plead at the bar in the superior courts. Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor.

Solicitor: An attorney who advises clients on legal matters, represents clients in certain lower courts, and prepares cases for barristers to present in the higher courts.

c) Woo-hoo! Une fan de Sarah Caudwell de plus!

[monkeycommando.livejournal.com]

You ever read J.L. Borges' short Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius?

Oh, The States is in a credulous mood lately that's why TDC is working. I figure it's like Left Behind, but for semi-religious non-rapturites. Or, if you prefer, it thrives because of the same New Age-y impulse that brought us Whitley Striber's Communion (the autobiography of an alien abductee), but based on more conventional traditions.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

re Borges story: No, but I guess I should.

And it's the Globe's bestseller list I am talking about.

Because it's you, I have to ask: have you read TDVC? Or are you basing your assumptions entirely on my cranky ramblings on the subject?

[monkeycommando.livejournal.com]

Electric ramblings, shurely!

And yes, on said ramblings, and on an article I read in the Globe once. In this case, wreckless theorising does not require actual familiarity with the text.

Anyway, if you read the source material, you know that Jesus' bloodline ended up in Cape Breton or something. (At least, that's as far as I got in the source material).

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

if you read the source material, you know that Jesus' bloodline ended up in Cape Breton or something

Oh, please.

[monkeycommando.livejournal.com]

BTW, if you want to read another tale of Eco's about the Grail, you could check out Baudalino. It's no FC, but it makes a passable counterpoint, with some similar themes, but plot-wise turned on thier heads.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

a) Bien sur. And it's inextricably linked in my mind with cricket now, which makes for some amusing reading. ;)

b) Thanks! That helps, I think.

c) High-five!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Liberry has it, so maybe I'll check it out.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Oh, please.

That is kind of the point we are both trying to make here.

NOOOO......

[raithen.livejournal.com]

Eco. Theory. Semiotics. I am now having horrid grad-school flashbacks. And because Foucault is in the mix, Queens comes to mind. And you know THAT can't be good..... Back story: 2nd week at Queens. "Read History of Sexuality, Vol 1. Say something intelligent about it in class. Then watch your brain explode. Welcome to grad school!. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I need to go curl up into a ball and sob now.

Re: NOOOO......

[monkeycommando.livejournal.com]

When did you go to Queen's? And where did you live?

Idea.

[monkeycommando.livejournal.com]

Hey, ELL and C-Grrl.

I have a really bad screenplay idea involving the T-Dot and a type of Grasal quest, and also a not-that-kind-of-nun character poached from another script idea of mine Kate might remember.

I was wondering (in light of this thread, and a book about why the Ark of the Covenant is in Ethiopia I've just been leafing through) if you guys might be interested in cooking up some hogtown specific DaVinci Code/Temple and the Lodge style cryptomythological-hokum to underpin it. Hopefullyb said mythology witll conform to the first three laws of thermodynamics.

Re: NOOOO......

[raithen.livejournal.com]

1996-97, Master of Arts, English. 11 months of Hell. I lived in an Apartment outside the Student Ghetto, a few blocks from the uni. Can't remember the street name right now, though it may come back to me....

Re: Idea.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

hee!

Sounds like fun...

Re: Idea.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

I refuse to encourage him on the grounds that I will be the one who has to sit and listen to the result...and then my head will explode...

But I'm glad to see The Warrior Nun make a reapperance. =]

Re: NOOOO......

[electricland.livejournal.com]

There, there.