One More

[mrissa]

One more chapter, one more day, I think. I have started Chapter 52, but I have not finished it. I won't tonight. I got a mini-pulla for breakfast tomorrow, and that seems appropriate, and waiting to finish tomorrow seems better than pushing my back from moderately stiff to deeply painful.

Tomorrow, barring something truly catastrophic, I will finish this book.

Yikes. And whee. And yikes.

In other positive news, my friend Erica brought Anna Leslie into the world yesterday, and we are all glad to see her, even if only through the wonders of the internet. She is wee and red and scrunch-faced and just as she ought to be. And now I'm going to go read A Letter of Mary as mechaieh and dichroic told me to.

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[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow we'll be far away,
Tomorrow is the judgement day
Tomorrow we'll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I don't mean to be impious, but if Ragnarok comes before I finish this book today, I am going to be totally pissed off.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I can understand that, but having Jean Valjean and company singing "a couple of days more" in honor of you finishing the book doesn't scan as well!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And "At the End of the Day" is a bit pessimistic for a book-finishing day.

I suppose one can sing "Red and Black" with almost any words, since it goes "Crashing syllable, iamb iamb iamb," and English is good at that. "IIIII am GOing TO the STORE. THEN I'll HAVE a GLASS of MILK," or "WOW, this BOOK is ALmost DONE. IT'S a PIty THAT it SUCKS." Whatever, really. "Red and Black" is a good zipper song.

I wish I knew where I'd put my sonnets. Someone had told me that English naturally goes well with iambs, and I was skeptical. If that was true of the language itself, I reasoned, different dialects should still come out that way. After writing a sonnet in Valleygirl ("Like OH m'GOD" = two iambs) and one in Redneck, I was convinced.

I'm going to finish listening to my BNL CD ("Aluminum," wooo!) and put on Les Mis to write to. Near. Beside. Whatever.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

BNL has a new album? How do you like it?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's "Everything to Everyone," and it's not that new. About a year old, actually. (Didn't know if we were clear that "Aluminum" was the song, not the album.) I like it, but it's definitely...um...well, it's BNL quirky, that's for sure. I don't think there's a song on there that's radio-playable. I've heard them do a few of them on TV -- the NHL All-Star game, the Today Show (my mom told me they'd be on) -- but I think they're mostly for BNL fans rather than a general audience. Being a BNL fan, though, I like it, and I listen to it a fair amount.

They're coming out with a Christmas album soon, so I will actually buy myself a Christmas album. Apparently wonders never do cease.

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

It's--- a book about some Finns,
And--- their vacuum tube machine,
"Thermionic Night" begins,
"Sampo" comes as number two.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And then "Midnight Sun Rising" goes and ruins the rhythm. Ah well; it's not nearly done yet and can be ignored for the time being.

(And will be ignored for the time being, dammit. This may be a trilogy, but it can just go being an incomplete trilogy for awhile longer!)

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Have I ever mentioned that "Thermionic Night" is one *heck* of a title? Even if it does sound a bit warm for actual sleeping.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You had not, in fact, said that, and I'm very pleased to hear it, considering how very long it took me to get there.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is progress!

I so want to read your book.