our love is all of god's money

[truepenny]

1. Apparently, the soundtrack for the end of this book is Norah Jones' cover of Wilco's "Jesus Etc." (YouTube clip here, for those who are curious.) No, I have no idea why. Of course, I didn't know why Cry Cry Cry's cover of "Cold Missouri Waters" was the soundtrack for the end of Corambis, either, until well after the fact. So maybe this will make sense in six months or so.

2. Cut 2,000 words of wrongness from the draft today. Which hurt, since it puts me back at 95k again, but those words were going to have to come out sooner or later, and it might as well be sooner.

3. This towel-kneading thing must be working, because my feet hate it.

4. Bullock's biography of Hitler is, in fact, excellent, although there are bits where I know more than he does because he was writing in 1962. This is not his fault.

5. Egyptian archaeologists working in Alexandria have found a temple to Bastet, built by Queen Berenike II (fl. 246-221 B.C.). [link found via panjianlien]

Comments

[saoba.livejournal.com]

Poor princess feet. Remember to ice and stretch.

(There's a stretch where you hold onto the wall or railing, stand with the balls of your feet on a step and raise and lower yourself as if on tiptoe- is that making any sense? My princess feet hated it but not as much as arch crunches. I looked at the PT and was all srsly? arch crunches? wtf, over?)

I will forego telling the feline overlord here about the temple, he's bad enough already.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

One of the highlights of my life was getting to see Cry Cry Cry when they toured. And the Richard Shinell solo show's I've seen since.

Thank you for the link, that cover is amazing.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I started on the towel thing tonight. My god is it exhausting, for such a tiny movement.

[girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com]

I think the archaeologists finding the temple is kind of neat. She was one of the few goddesses who were the sun aspect.

It was believed that she protected men from evil spirits and infectious disease.