trivia!Head

Found this link on Slayage:

BUFFY ACTOR SET TO STAR IN NEW TV PET SHOW

Because there's no such thing as too much Anthony Stewart Head.

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Feeling better, thank goodness. Apparently one of those 24 hour things. Must now go find out if I have the fortitude to take a shower. Excelsior.

taking stock

Friday the Thirteenth comes on a Thursday this month.

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This is another one of those where am I and what am I doing? posts, which I need periodically to keep my head from spinning around and flying off.

So.

1. Have finished reading Duffy. V. good. Must now

• read Cressy


• interpolate Duffy into chapter

2. Chapter 11 is still waiting for me. Am feeling calmer about it--a week of being too sick to work really does put these things in perspective. Of course, may still be too sick to make headway, but at least am feeling serene.

3. Thanks to beautiful feedback from Tales of the Unanticipated, I have realized that a long-standing story problem can be resolved by me letting the reader in on the fact that this particular character DOES have an agenda, rather than assuming they can figure this out from no textual clues whatsoever. Ahem. Readers, no matter how charming and brilliant they may be, are not telepathic. Must now fix story.

4. Had a haunted house dream last night that I think wants to be a story. It was claiming to be written by M. R. James, which is a pretty sure sign. Also featured mirrors, which are always v. creepy.

5. Have not forgotten about the wombat.

6. Is there a #6? Oh, yes. Am still wobbly. Must remember not to push self and not to be disgusted with same for having no staying power. Treating self with reasonable care not a sign of weakness. May eventually internalize this to the point that I don't have to include it in the list. Ha.

That wasn't a wall. It was a door.

In the process of crossing item #3 off the list from the preceding post, I discovered that the story in question needs a sequel. And then I discovered that I knew how it began.

335 words before coming up for air, which considering how fidgety I am is pretty damn good.

I'm writing again, and it sure does feel fine.

couple random things

1. The Onion AV Club has apparently asked everyone they've ever interviewed, Who could you take in a fight?

I believe I've mentioned how much I love The Onion, but I feel moved to say it again. I love The Onion extremely much.

2. I may be the only person in the world who hadn't tracked down the source of the quote "Death and his brother Sleep," which is used by Dorothy Sayers in Ch. 15 of Gaudy Night and tidily inverted by Peter Dickinson as the title of Sleep and his Brother. My excuse is that I never liked the Romantics anyway. However, I was tracking down something else in the invaluable Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and was struck by a mad librarianly impulse. So, for my own benefit and that of anybody else who has wondered, here's the stanza:

How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep!
One pale as the yonder wan and horned moon,
With lips of lurid blue,
The other glowing like the vital morn,
When throned on ocean's wave
It breathes over the world:
Yet both so passing strange and wonderful!
--Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Daemon of the World 1.1.1-8

Which is reminding me, strongly, of why I didn't like the Romantics in the first place. Lame, Perce. Lame like a lame thing. But at least I've got that quote nailed down.