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electriclandI slept a lot this weekend and was not wildly productive. I did make it to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lostvoice's birthday pub night, also to chamber choir practice. I had fun at the former and think I'm going to enjoy the latter -- it's a nice group (of whom, bizarrely, three people plus me are from my choir and four are from my mother's choir; small world) and the music is tricky enough to be interesting, but not impossible. Granted, we were only doing four parts yesterday, not eight, and when we get to eight I will be all alone at Alto 2, but I have hope. The conductor seems really nice.
[Edit: The reason I slept a lot on Saturday was I went to the Rivoli formonkeycommando's birthday on Friday night and drank a lot and played pool, which I haven't done in far too long. It was great, although Dan and I had something of an arms race of ass-grabbing that, in retrospect, may have been a little disturbing to the casual onlooker. I am not sure why I forgot to mention this in my original post; possibly my brain was searching only the "Saturday" and "Sunday" archives.]
I attempted pot roast, but fear it may have been overcooked. We didn't actually eat it becausepariah_ink came over and I'd made it with wine, so that was no good. Jen made curry instead.
Still obsessed by Killer Sudoku.
Books read this week:
The Ill-Bred Bride, Rosemary Edghill, of which more later.
Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware. Have to admit I only skimmed this -- I may go back and read it properly. Technically impressive and surprisingly moving, but I didn't actually like it very much.
Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier.
Jennifer Government, Max Barry, which was uneven but hilarious.
Flirting in Cars, Alisa Kwitney, who has apparently been gone from Vertigo long enough to have written 7!!! books. I liked this one very much. (It also made an inadvertent single-mother diptych with Jennifer Government.) I don't, however, think much of the cover.
The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. Fun -- I'll hope the movie is decent.
lostvoice's birthday pub night, also to chamber choir practice. I had fun at the former and think I'm going to enjoy the latter -- it's a nice group (of whom, bizarrely, three people plus me are from my choir and four are from my mother's choir; small world) and the music is tricky enough to be interesting, but not impossible. Granted, we were only doing four parts yesterday, not eight, and when we get to eight I will be all alone at Alto 2, but I have hope. The conductor seems really nice.[Edit: The reason I slept a lot on Saturday was I went to the Rivoli for
monkeycommando's birthday on Friday night and drank a lot and played pool, which I haven't done in far too long. It was great, although Dan and I had something of an arms race of ass-grabbing that, in retrospect, may have been a little disturbing to the casual onlooker. I am not sure why I forgot to mention this in my original post; possibly my brain was searching only the "Saturday" and "Sunday" archives.]I attempted pot roast, but fear it may have been overcooked. We didn't actually eat it because
pariah_ink came over and I'd made it with wine, so that was no good. Jen made curry instead.Still obsessed by Killer Sudoku.
Books read this week:
The Ill-Bred Bride, Rosemary Edghill, of which more later.
Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware. Have to admit I only skimmed this -- I may go back and read it properly. Technically impressive and surprisingly moving, but I didn't actually like it very much.
Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier.
Jennifer Government, Max Barry, which was uneven but hilarious.
Flirting in Cars, Alisa Kwitney, who has apparently been gone from Vertigo long enough to have written 7!!! books. I liked this one very much. (It also made an inadvertent single-mother diptych with Jennifer Government.) I don't, however, think much of the cover.
The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. Fun -- I'll hope the movie is decent.
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Date: 2007-10-22 04:58 pm (UTC)in other news, I am predictably sucked in by _Heartland_ on CBC. They even mentionned TTOUCH! for HORSES last night (they demo'd it all wrong, but STILL!) It makes me kind of glad I hadn't gotten around to reading the books ;).
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Date: 2007-10-22 05:01 pm (UTC)Good for you!
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Date: 2007-10-22 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-22 05:34 pm (UTC)Although I believe
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Date: 2007-10-22 05:38 pm (UTC)Also, some of us still take months to read Gaudy Night....
It's really a wonder I EVER got all them funky letters that follow my name that suggest I have read lots of stuff....
(though I think 13 years of post-secondary education with a focus on matters literary and discoursal may well have broken me, or at least my desire/ability to read like a mad fool ;).
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Date: 2007-10-22 06:15 pm (UTC)It would sure as hell break me!
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Date: 2007-10-22 06:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-22 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-22 05:36 pm (UTC)How are you? Haven't seen you in a while!
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Date: 2007-10-22 11:17 pm (UTC)Hugs!
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Date: 2007-10-22 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-22 05:36 pm (UTC)Great to see you Saturday!
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Date: 2007-10-22 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-22 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-22 08:58 pm (UTC)Steve's Best Man. The unusual five-man band for the evening was me, Steve, Zac, Condo, and ELL. Robin got de facto guy'd early on. I only recognized the ass grabbing on Dan's part, and was somewhat disturbed on two counts:
-he'd just met ELL
and
-he's engaged
so I thought it was a bit forward.
Then I remembered the honorary guy induction, and the fact that the grabbing of ass which I witnessed occured while ELL was lining up her pool shot, and realized that Dan may have been having trouble being on the bottom rung of pool players that evening, with Zac and me, and not up in the elite borderline semi-competent group with ELL and Steve.
Mind you, the mimed groping of boob was also a little disconcerting.
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Date: 2007-10-22 09:02 pm (UTC)*ponders how to turn this into an icon*
aha!
Date: 2007-10-22 09:37 pm (UTC)Re: aha!
Date: 2007-10-22 11:56 pm (UTC)Re: aha!
Date: 2007-10-22 11:56 pm (UTC)