[Deranged grin] But I'm feeling much better now! [/grin]

[kiya]

1098 words for section 24, which is now done; I did that in three bits, don't know how much is today's. Actually, yes I do, I can just select the bit I wrote and wordcount that -- 698. Also 321 words in a section labelled 'Outtakes: 24' in case I want it later. It was a way the scene could have gone, but the wrong mode.

Spent a while googling Just So Stories for brooksmoses (o my best beloved), wound up giving him a link to The Cat That Walked By Himself.

Also spent a while this evening wandering about humming the Toreador Song. (teinedreugan was watching something that made reference to the Bad News Bears! I can't help it!) I suspect this means I'm better overall; the level of music intrinsic to my being is often a good heuristic. And my hormones are behaving again, which is the other part of that feeling-much-better-now-*teeth*.


Footnote: Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, kyphi.

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[meranthi.livejournal.com]

Spent a while googling Just So Stories for brooksmoses (o my best beloved), wound up giving him a link to The Cat That Walked By Himself.

YAY! Someone else who knows the Just So Stories! :) My dad read those to me many many times when I was a kid...

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

Footnote: Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, kyphi.

Are you burning kyphi, then? Did you mix it yourself, or is it commercial, or ...?

(Inquiring minds & kyphi fans wanna know. No, I haven't mixed my own ...yet.)

Cheers --
jon

[kiya]

I bought it from a small vendor in Australia, of all places; I have a number of translations of recipes for it, but they're so blessed complicated I'm a little afraid of them. (Even setting aside the questions of whether or not we're sure we know what all these plants are.)

I am massively, amazingly amused by your 'yet'. :)

Just So Stories --

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

Forgot to mention -- these are, indeed, wonderful. I was given a large-format copy when I was a little kid, and read all of them repeatedly.

I was very annoyed, a few years ago, when some pack of morons brought out an album with Jack Nicholson or someone equally heavy reading a few of them, and wonderful background sounds by Bobby McFerrin, ...and I heard the narrator say the words "insatiable curiosity" repeatedly. No, no, no. Wrong. Bad. Unethical gratuitous meddling that ruins one of the most charming aspects of that story.

Harrumpfh.

Anyway, cheers --
jon

[(Anonymous)]

Spent a while googling Just So Stories for brooksmoses (o my best beloved), wound up giving him a link to The Cat That Walked By Himself.

Hope it had the nifty paintings and things? The Cat that Walked is very good-- also The Elephant's Child and the Rhinoceros--

Them that takes cakes
Which the Parsee-man bakes
Make dreadful mistakes.

:-) Aga