Another teleporting spider. And flump.
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byslantedlightOooh - and why is there a yellow box around my posting window? What does that mean? I don't think I remember seeing it before... or did I just always take the yellow box for granted? Surely not...
Just back from lunch and noticed that there was a spider playing on her web by the window, and was thinking about how they're everywhere just now (stretched across the porch in front of the front door last night, dangling from a thread in front of the lift here at work as I was about to step out onto my floor this morning, all over the rubbish and recycling wheelie bins, wandering around the tomato plants etc etc) and just generally gazing at her as she went about her web-like business when... she was suddenly gone. As in - she didn't go up the web, she didn't go down the web, she didn't float forwards or backwards on the thread, just... suddenly there was no spider there. While I was watching it. So I've either just encountered a jump in the Matrix, am having the DTs in reverse, or... we're back to the whole teleporting spider thing again. I know, once just happens, twice is an accident... it's not meaningful until I've seen three teleporting spiders, but... Eep!
Otherwise... today is flumpy! It's all grey and wet, but instead of enjoying it and feeling all cosy-inside, I'm just feeling... flumpy. And my flist is sooooo quiet! Everything's quiet and standing still and quiet... shhhh... Is anyone out there? Doing fabulous things? Reading fabulous fic, maybe? Watching fabulous telly? Anyone...?
Oh, but happy Equinox - apparently today is the first official day of Autumn...
And ohmigod, weirdness! I just copied this to paste here: Today, the Sun crosses the celestial equator heading south at 03:09 and then glanced at my computer clock and... it's 13.09! Eeeeep! Okay, actually NASA probably meant 24-hour clock time, and even if they didn't there's still two hours to go, but... heart-jump! Well, it's better than flump, anyway... *g*
Just back from lunch and noticed that there was a spider playing on her web by the window, and was thinking about how they're everywhere just now (stretched across the porch in front of the front door last night, dangling from a thread in front of the lift here at work as I was about to step out onto my floor this morning, all over the rubbish and recycling wheelie bins, wandering around the tomato plants etc etc) and just generally gazing at her as she went about her web-like business when... she was suddenly gone. As in - she didn't go up the web, she didn't go down the web, she didn't float forwards or backwards on the thread, just... suddenly there was no spider there. While I was watching it. So I've either just encountered a jump in the Matrix, am having the DTs in reverse, or... we're back to the whole teleporting spider thing again. I know, once just happens, twice is an accident... it's not meaningful until I've seen three teleporting spiders, but... Eep!
Otherwise... today is flumpy! It's all grey and wet, but instead of enjoying it and feeling all cosy-inside, I'm just feeling... flumpy. And my flist is sooooo quiet! Everything's quiet and standing still and quiet... shhhh... Is anyone out there? Doing fabulous things? Reading fabulous fic, maybe? Watching fabulous telly? Anyone...?
Oh, but happy Equinox - apparently today is the first official day of Autumn...
And ohmigod, weirdness! I just copied this to paste here: Today, the Sun crosses the celestial equator heading south at 03:09 and then glanced at my computer clock and... it's 13.09! Eeeeep! Okay, actually NASA probably meant 24-hour clock time, and even if they didn't there's still two hours to go, but... heart-jump! Well, it's better than flump, anyway... *g*
Just in case
Date: Friday, 12 November 2010 03:38 pm (UTC)Thanks for the info, not sure that I will follow the directions, I feel safe with my LJ just as it is so I guess I shall do without and hope they are posted separately or archived.
The specific stories that prompted my question were ILWP stories:
After Mayli
One Under
Halloween Drabble
Contradiction
Mind the Gap
A Stirring of Moths
Thousands of books in my library I am trying to read my way through them again. I joined a book club in my apartment building. Not interested in new fiction. I go on binges for things...for example last month I stopped reading my vampire fic because I read my way through most of them and started my A Rice's but by the time I finished The Body Thief I was out of patience and didn't want to go on. I chose one of my fluffy mysteries and read my way through the 8 I had by 1 author and checked the last for pub date and realized it was years ago so I went to Abebooks.com to check for more in the series and lo and behold..bought them. I had 6 or 7 series by authors and I read them and bought new ones for each. When all the mystery books were read, I stood in the library and wondered...what am I in the mood for now. I moved on to The Dresden series by Jim Butcher and his wizard stories and ended up buying his last 2 novels and made a note for when the next new one was coming out. Then I started reading Lewis Grizzard's books (17 of his collected columns and novels) with titles like They Tore My Heart Out and Stomped that Sucker Flat and Elvis is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself. Then I read Great Encyclopedia of Faeries (which went with all of Laurell K. Hamilton's Meredith Gentry-Sidhe princess books. From there I jumped back to columnist collections of Florence King (Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady)and Molly Ivins (You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You) wallowing in US politics. Then I took a breather and read my favourite zine of all time (I've reread it twice a year for ten years) The Gift of An Enemy by Sylvia in X-Files.
Joined this book club and worried. I was relieved when they didn't choose a single book for us all to read. They gave us a category. Ghosts, hauntings or paranormal..who knew how few of those I had. I read many of them but generally horror books are not keepers.
I got lucky. Tanya Huff a Toronto writer I met in the 70's who was published in the 90's was the author of the Blood Ties books from which they made a one season TV series. There were 5 Blood books and then she spun them off into a 2nd series with 2 of the characters from the 1st. The second series only had three books and the second one had ghosts so I did my book report (at least that is what it felt like) on it but I read the three books in order before the meeting. This time they chose a mystery theme and I chose Georgette Heyer's Envious Casca with an X-mas theme. My reading is such a grasshopper thing and I am so locked into what I am in the mood for at any particular time and I just don't buy contemporary fiction anymore (unless it is a book by an author whose books I already own, or it is related to a tv show I am enamored of (like Kathy Reich's Bones books or Never Let Her Go the Anne Rule book made into a tv movie with Mark Hamon of NCIS and Paul Michael Glaser of Starsky & Hutch...I was 2 for 2 on that one). Connection...it is all about connections. While I was browsing the mystery section of my favourite second hand store to see if I could find a specific author's latest, I saw a title that involved a book store...anything with Book in the title gets my attention and eeeek I had picked myself up another author to collect. She had 12 books in her series. Talk about bucks flying south like Canada Geese.
Tonight is my diet group meeting, I am reading Life is a Bitch and Then You Diet. Which is soooooo true and funny. It is wonderful to see my underlinings from fifteen years ago and what answers I gave to the questions and to see how my mindset has changed over the years.
Jeez, once I get started on books and reading..my mind runs away with itself.
Karen-Leigh