"His oratory filled his foes with fear."

[mrissa]

Yikes, I'm sorry. I posted the synopsis I was working on without a filter, when I meant to filter it to people who had volunteered to help me remove suckage from it. If you were one of the people who kindly commented and were not included on the filter (under which I have now stashed the post), and you wish to continue helping me with it, please let me know; it's an opt-in filter, and I'm glad to opt you in. I just didn't want to subject the whole world to it.

Anyway: I stayed up late last night completely rewriting the synop, which you would think would have given my brain less time for nightmares. Now I am pretty tired. Hoping that a nap makes its way into my light cone sometime today, but I'm not betting on it. Stupid light cone anyway.

Tomorrow is the book discussion day for The Kestrel, so please do remember to stop by and revel in Ruritanian revolutionary goodness.

For whatever reason I am plagued with They Might Be Giants songs today. I cannot get rid of one without getting another. As I have been reading The Kestrel and the last of the Simon Schama series, I can't come up with any reason why this should be.

Also I cannot get it through my head that today is Wednesday. In my head today is Thursday, which gives me less time to do some of the things I want to get done, but also makes it time to do the things I'm supposed to do Thursday, so at least they can come off the list. But they can't. I am, as my grandmother would say, more mixed up than Hogan's goat. Who is Hogan? Why is his goat more mixed up than other goats? Does this have something to do with really bad fake German accents? This and other clear indications that I am really tired: next on livejournal.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

I seem to have neglected to opt in to the filter previously, but I'd like to now that you've reminded me. (I find being subjected to such things enjoyable even when I don't have time to comment.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Done.

[brooksmoses]

Thank you!

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

I don't know a thing about writing synopses (my own agent never asked for one), so I'll refrain from that particular filter, but for what it's worth I think it's a really strong synopsis.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks.

[shana.livejournal.com]

I didn't have time to comment, but I would totally buy the novel for my library based on that synopsis. (And a mmpb for me, later.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[tournevis.livejournal.com]

Me?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Done.

[tournevis.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

Stomp box scream my thoughts!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am not your broom! I am not your broom! I've had enough--I'm throwing off your chains of servitude!

[moiread]

The first time I read that subject line, I read: "His oratory filled his shoes with fear."

Also, am with you on the Thursday thing. Can't seem to shake it either. Is it some kind of weird temporal anomaly? Maybe it really is Thursday and we're the only ones who can tell.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I hope not. I haven't actually accomplished the Thursday things I have to do on Thursday in specific!

[aedifica]

I read it that way too. Once I saw your comment and realized that might not be what it said, I still had to read it three times to see "foes" instead of "shoes."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Funny things, brains.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Because it has not just the words to the song, but also a probably bogus Norse myth, here's a link with much debate about Hogan and his goat (http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/7553/hgoat.htm).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Bogus Norse myths appreciated here!

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I'd never have guessed.

Speaking of the myffic, had you noted the middle name of the new Norwegian Prine Minister (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_L%C3%B8kke_Rasmussen)?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am sneaky, is what.

I dunno, I just feel like naming dogs or cats or prime ministers that way is Asking For Trouble.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Can I opt in, pls? Actually I thought I did before but my brain is a sieve.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Done.

[aliseadae]

May I join the filiter?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Sure, you should be able to see it now.