happiness

[truepenny]

I love this porpentine, but you know, the longer I look at it, the less fretful it seems. That's a porpentine with a strawberry, man. Life doesn't get much better.

The dissertation is printed out and sitting in a stack waiting to go to the copy-shop on Monday. (The particular copy-shop I favor, because they'll copy mss while I wait and not make a big production out of it, like it was saving the last silver spoon from the Titanic or something--they aren't open on Saturdays.) 352 pages, plus 11 single-spaced pages of bibliography.

Thank you very very much to everyone who posted excitement and congratulations yesterday. Some of you seem even more excited than I am. *g* I know I've said it before, but it bears repeating: y'all's enthusiasm means a tremendous amount to me. I am convinced I wouldn't now be preparing to defend in a month if it wasn't for the support I've gotten from all of you. And I'd be even more of a neurotic whack-job about it than I am.

It's a beautiful day. I'm rereading Watership Down because I think I've earned it. My writing life has sprung up to devour me whole, and that's grand, too.

I'm just ... happy. That doesn't happen very often.

Wow.

Comments

[skalja.livejournal.com]

Watership Down is one of the best books ever. And no, that's not opinion, that's fact. ;)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

It totally is. His other books leave me anywhere ranging from indifferent to squicked, but Watership Down is damn near perfect. I have to ration my reading of it because I know it so well.

[skalja.livejournal.com]

At a guess, The Plague Dogs was one of your squicks.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Actually, no. Although it had its share of squick-worthy moments, the book as a whole I was okay with.

I was completely squicked out by Maia. Also The Girl in a Swing. (I was a teenager. I kept thinking, if he wrote one book like Watership Down, SURELY he wrote others. So I kept reading, despite the mounting evidence that, no, WD was really a fluke.) WD gets a lot of heat for being sexist, but I'll take the doe-rabbits ANY day over what happens to human female characters in Adams's work. The does are at least respected by the bucks and by the narrative.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I've always found Hazel's death deeply comforting and just right. What did he do with it in the sequel, which I've been looking at very cautiously?

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking all year that I need to get a new copy of Watership Down and reread it.

I've killed three, I think.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I read one paperback to bits and then badgered my mother into buying me the hardback. Which was neither easy to find, nor cheap, but she did it. I don't read it quite as *hard* as I did in high school, either.

[marith.livejournal.com]

*beam* Missed the rush, but CONGRATULATIONS!

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Conga-rats!

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Happy is good.

[sue-donym.livejournal.com]

I love this porpentine, but you know, the longer I look at it, the less fretful it seems.

Perhaps if the strawberry were Photoshopped out, he would look more fretful. Like he was wringing his hands in anxiety.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I *heart* your icon.

And I don't think it's the strawberry that needs to go. I think it's the "fretful." I actually rather like having a non-fretful porpentine. Will have to ask HL if she's willing to do something about it.

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

The dissertation is printed out and sitting in a stack waiting to go to the copy-shop on Monday.

Those muffled whimpers of pure jealousy you can hear come from me...

But at the end of that long hard slog, you deserve to be happy.

[lcohen]

happy is very good to see!

[rliz.livejournal.com]

> I'm just ... happy. That doesn't happen very often.

> Wow.

That is wonderful, mme. T.

(Hey, hey, will you email me your mailing address?)

I've never read Watership Down, I ought to. I obsessed over the movie, though, that animated one, when I was little. Really obsessed. I haven't thought about that for a while.

HAPPY

[dmsherwood53.livejournal.com]

Happy your happy simply happy days get rarer as middle-age loomes which is one of the less squicky reasons for nostalgia about childhood- not that I had a perfectly happy childhood -does anyone.
Sequel to Watership Down mostly oK tho there's one story in there that I really want to get ther author alone & ask WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU MEN ??!! Some people -Algis Budrys is one- say SHARDIK is as good as W D MAIA is sorta like one of those novels one writes in ones teens and burns with the memory of - & no I'm not talking about the bondage bits

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Done!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

And Watership Down, too. A nice reward.