Week of October 1-7

[mrissa]

Two hold requests. No other motion on various fiction fronts.

markgritter is home safely and has dealt with the poor sad tomato plants. Paul Douglas the Weather Guy says the first frost should be Friday. I will be bouncing as I wait. I love the first frost.

I was in a Mood about my fiction as I was writing out the first batch of postcards. You know, the "I should give up and go back to physics or go live in a cave, or maybe I should go be a physicist who lives in a cave" mood. Then two things happened: I ate a piece of fruit (curse you, 4:00 blood sugar drop! I should never listen to you!), and I knew what came after the bit I was writing on redbird's postcard. And that story fell together with a crash and a thud, right on my head, and all of a sudden figuring out how to get the cave wired for the HV power supplies on the NIM bins looked a lot less necessary.

Bought the stuff for squash soup and an experimental canteloupe soup at Byerly's. Cool fruit soup is good for people who have had things yanked out of their heads, and the blueberry mango cardamom soup I made when I had my left wisdom teeth out was really awesome. This will be orange canteloupe and a hint of cinnamon. The right wisdom teeth come out Wednesday. Good fun for the whole family.

I was thinking about the yahoo who was trying some matociquala-baiting earlier, and I just can't fathom it, myself. What on earth would make you comment on a total stranger's livejournal to tell her that her work was a waste of time? Not bad or wrong or evil -- if someone's work was kicking baby bunnies, I could see becoming outraged and requesting that they stop. But just a waste of time. If you really believed that, why on earth would you bother telling a total stranger? Total strangers can waste their time all over the place, and it's none of my concern.

Oh, it's that again: lacking the "it's none of my concern" meme.

And speaking of which: gentlemen of Eagan! While I appreciate your willingness to reassure your partner that she is still attractive to you -- because this is a nice thing to do for one's partner -- can you please go over the specific details of this sentiment somewhere other than on your cell phone on the sidewalk in front of Byerly's? Thank you so much. Because as fascinating as you may find the specific texture of your partner's thighs, the rest of us were not actually sitting around wondering. At all. Ever.

What is it with people not understanding what the sidewalk in front of Byerly's is for? It is for walking! Into Byerly's! Or out of Byerly's! Or waiting for one's transport! That's it! Not for consuming illegal substances! Not for half-shouting hackneyed similes about one's partner's personal attributes into the phone! To use really strong Minnesotan language, that is not okay!

Honestly.

Comments

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

and the blueberry mango cardamom soup I made when I had my left wisdom teeth out was really awesome.

Would you share the recipe? My top wisdom teeth come out on Friday.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Sure, here you go. (http://www.marissalingen.com/bluesoup.html)

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Thanks. You're a hero of the toothless revolution.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I slobber affectionately at you.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I thought we already had the first frost? Or was there just a danger of frost?

[songwind.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, and fruit soups are soemthing I have been interested in trying for a while.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I put the blueberry soup recipe on my webpage for sosostris2012, link above.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

When? If we did, it certainly wasn't a hard frost.

[katallen.livejournal.com]

If you really believed that, why on earth would you bother telling a total stranger? Total strangers can waste their time all over the place, and it's none of my concern.

In part I think lj makes some people feel they have a right... as if the comments section were a newspaper letters page. A place to preach.

Other people delete more comments then they post :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why some people write the things they do to the newspaper, either. Some of them I do -- if there's a point they'd like others to hear/consider and have some faith that it might happen from a letter to the editor, really -- but others leave me totally blank: why would you feel the need to share that with other people? For example, the people who have visited Mpls and like or hate it or its newspaper. When I visited London, I didn't even think of writing to a paper to say, "Dear London paper, you rock and/or your city rocks. Please provide more varied busking in the underground stops, as I only need so much Led Zeppelin. Sincerely yours, etc."

[katallen.livejournal.com]

::grins:: every now and then, when there's a letters page row going on in the local paper there'll be an entry pretty much of the 'my family lived in Harrogate 40 years ago then emigrated to -- somewhere far away -- and I think...' kind. Those puzzle me quite a bit too :)

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

We have a frost warning tonight too! It's so exciting. God, I love October.

Giving You Something Instead

[mackatlaw.livejournal.com]

I think I'm giving up on Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell for the second time. I gave away my first copy of Susanna Clarke's book, and I'm ready to do it with my other copy. The writing is wonderful but the society of manners comedy tends to slow me down so much that I despair of ever finishing it. I go through several chapters easily, then bog down on the manners, and there's too much of that for my attention span in pacing. I believe I will buy or check out again the audio, where my tolerance is better, and finish listening to it.

Would you like my copy? Hardcover, slightly used but respectable.

Mack

Re: Giving You Something Instead

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, please.

Re: Giving You Something Instead

[mackatlaw.livejournal.com]

I'll put it in the outgoing basket by my desk, then. Since apparently (I just checked), I'm almost out of funds, it may be a week or so before I get some money in. But it's a lovely book and I thought of you -- someone with a longer attention span should have it!

Re: Giving You Something Instead

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Of course no rush. And thank you!