"Do the dumb stuff I gotta do. Touch the puppet head."

[mrissa]

Well, the chairs are here, and so is timprov's new anti-death machine. I feel like gaaldine in the chairs: my feet don't quite touch. (They are not for me to sit in mostly anyway.) They were not the hugest ones in the store, not by a long shot. There are some mighty huge chairs out there. Our living room will not contain them. Happily, it doesn't have to.

I managed to get back to sleep after taking markgritter to the airport. I'm getting to be an old hand at this. The key is for me to eat breakfast before trying to go back to sleep. It's good to know the tricks and secrets.

I'm hoping to spend my fountain pen store gift card today. Mostly I'm being useful, but also I'm working on "At the Sign of the Fish and Amulet" and reading Lord Byron's Novel: the Evening Land, which was going so well until it got to the damned e-mail. I almost got up and ran upstairs to put it on my list to buy for the nearest gaaldine-related holiday. And then, the e-mail struck. Blerg. Very few people can handle epistolary novels or sections of novels so that I don't want to fling them out the window, but the existence of Sorcery and Cecelia and Freedom and Necessity and Laughin' Boy does not mean it's generally a good idea. And in this case -- LOL OMG i like totally cant use caps or punctuation now that im writing an email section of this book ROTFLMAO -- it's just wretched. I hope it improves fast, because I really liked the previous section, and I hate those books where I'm tempted to skim one section to get to the other (I'm looking at YOU, Margaret Atwood!).

Comments

[ellarien]

I'm reading Lord Byron's Novel, too; I'm about two-thirds of the way through. Thea's e-mail style is certainly annoying --- I think it's meant to signal her mathematical genius, or something --- but her e-mails are really quite a small fraction of the book.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am entirely unsympathetic to the use of illiteracy as a signal of mathematical genius.

I'm still going to keep reading the book, though.

[ellarien]

It makes no sense to me either, considering the mathematically-inclined folks I know and the difficulty of getting an academic job without demonstrating basic literacy.

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

That, and all the math majors I've known are super mega anal retentive about spelling and capitalization and shit.

I mean, hell, the only time I every type anything like "OMG LOL" is when I'm making fun of that sort of thing. (Then again, I was a math major only by a technicality, so I suppose I don't count.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Haven't you seen that "Futurama" episode? "You are technically correct -- the very best kind of correct." It may be the very best kind of math major as well.

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

I've heard the quote in context - it's stuck in my head now - but I've totally forgotten what that episode as a whole was about.

And I'm sure there are better kinds of math majors. I just haven't met them. ;)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's in "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back," with the lovely song I sing all the time: "When push comes to shove, you gotta do what you love, even if it's not a good idea."

And you've probably met a fair number of math majors, too. I know I have.