A Sky Before Closure
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greygirlbeastToday, Elizabeth would have been 39.
There was a seizure late yesterday afternoon, the worst in months, so if this entry is a little off, that's what you blame. I still feel as though I'm thinking through a film of cheesecloth dipped in Vaseline. Fortunately, all I have to do today is attend to line edits.
Monday (12/28/09)— We drove to Attleboro, Massachusetts late in the day. I was looking for a CD, which I didn't find. As a consolation, we stopped at Yankee Spirits, or as I prefer to think of it, the Boozery (on Washington St./Rt. 1). We came away with French absinthe, Russian lager, and a bottle of Dogfish Head's Pangaea. The place really is a marvel. On the way home, the sun was setting, and the sky was like the last moments before apocalypse. I took photos, because lately I seem obsessed with the sky. In Atlanta and Birmingham, the sky is an entirely different beast. The photos are behind the cut, below. There was rain Monday morning, and a few slushy snow flakes as we were leaving Providence.
Monday evening, Spooky baked kielbasa with apples, red potatoes, red onions, garlic, and bay. We drank the Russian lager with it (Baltica No. 4, which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ellen_datlow introduced me to last November, in NYC). I read more of the Rapetosaurus paper, and more of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us (a Solstice gift from David Szydloski). The latter is a brilliant book. It's almost enough to inspire in me some weak spark of hope. We watched an episode of Fringe. There was WoW, and we both made Level 75.
Tuesday (12/29/09)— A windy and very cold day. Maybe the coldest day I've felt since coming to Rhode Island. There was a vicious wind. We saw Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, and I thought it was delightful. When we got back home, a package was waiting for me, the ARCs for The Ammonite Violin & Others, which is now that much closer to being an actual book. Also, I discovered a very nice review of The Red Tree at SFFWorld.
There was Chinese takeout for dinner. I read more of Weisman's book, and we watched three more episodes of Fringe (which we're watching entirely out of order, and I think that's making it more interesting).
Tomorrow I will post my "Top Ten" list of fantasy and science-fiction films from 2009.
Today will be a day of line edits. But I said that already. Final corrections to The Ammonite Violin & Others, and "Untitled 34," and "Pickman's Other Model" (on the last one, actually, all I need to do is to copy the list of line edits into an email to send to Joshi). It should be easy. I just have to keep squinting through the cheesecloth and Vaseline. And here are the photos from Monday:
All Photographs Copyright © 2009 by Caitlín R. Kiernan
There was a seizure late yesterday afternoon, the worst in months, so if this entry is a little off, that's what you blame. I still feel as though I'm thinking through a film of cheesecloth dipped in Vaseline. Fortunately, all I have to do today is attend to line edits.
Monday (12/28/09)— We drove to Attleboro, Massachusetts late in the day. I was looking for a CD, which I didn't find. As a consolation, we stopped at Yankee Spirits, or as I prefer to think of it, the Boozery (on Washington St./Rt. 1). We came away with French absinthe, Russian lager, and a bottle of Dogfish Head's Pangaea. The place really is a marvel. On the way home, the sun was setting, and the sky was like the last moments before apocalypse. I took photos, because lately I seem obsessed with the sky. In Atlanta and Birmingham, the sky is an entirely different beast. The photos are behind the cut, below. There was rain Monday morning, and a few slushy snow flakes as we were leaving Providence.
Monday evening, Spooky baked kielbasa with apples, red potatoes, red onions, garlic, and bay. We drank the Russian lager with it (Baltica No. 4, which
ellen_datlow introduced me to last November, in NYC). I read more of the Rapetosaurus paper, and more of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us (a Solstice gift from David Szydloski). The latter is a brilliant book. It's almost enough to inspire in me some weak spark of hope. We watched an episode of Fringe. There was WoW, and we both made Level 75.Tuesday (12/29/09)— A windy and very cold day. Maybe the coldest day I've felt since coming to Rhode Island. There was a vicious wind. We saw Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, and I thought it was delightful. When we got back home, a package was waiting for me, the ARCs for The Ammonite Violin & Others, which is now that much closer to being an actual book. Also, I discovered a very nice review of The Red Tree at SFFWorld.
There was Chinese takeout for dinner. I read more of Weisman's book, and we watched three more episodes of Fringe (which we're watching entirely out of order, and I think that's making it more interesting).
Tomorrow I will post my "Top Ten" list of fantasy and science-fiction films from 2009.
Today will be a day of line edits. But I said that already. Final corrections to The Ammonite Violin & Others, and "Untitled 34," and "Pickman's Other Model" (on the last one, actually, all I need to do is to copy the list of line edits into an email to send to Joshi). It should be easy. I just have to keep squinting through the cheesecloth and Vaseline. And here are the photos from Monday:
All Photographs Copyright © 2009 by Caitlín R. Kiernan
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Sky
Date: 2009-12-30 04:31 pm (UTC)Breathtaking and mundane
Dramatic and banal; perfect.
Feel better soon, Greybeast.
Re: Sky
Date: 2009-12-30 04:43 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2009-12-30 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-30 04:44 pm (UTC)but my favorite brew of theirs is the 60-Minute IPA. I highly recommend it if you like hoppy beer. Their Midas Touch, based on an ancient beer recipe, is interesting as well.
I've not had the IPA yet, but yes, the Midas Touch is good (though the honey flavor is a little heavy for my liking).
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Date: 2009-12-30 04:42 pm (UTC)Great moon shot.
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Date: 2009-12-30 04:45 pm (UTC)Great moon shot.
Thanks.
Have you had their Midas Touch?
See above.
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Date: 2009-12-30 04:49 pm (UTC)Hope today is a good one.
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Date: 2009-12-30 04:52 pm (UTC)Dammit, that's the book I've been trying to think of! See, all I had was 'nonfiction...wanted to read it...' and all the other details were lost to the ether.
Truly you are a Hero; were I a manufacturer of soft drinks, I would name a soft drink after you.
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Date: 2009-12-30 05:01 pm (UTC)Truly you are a Hero; were I a manufacturer of soft drinks, I would name a soft drink after you.
Only if it's stains the tongue red.
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Date: 2009-12-30 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-30 06:08 pm (UTC)Get ye some Baltika No. 9.
I'll likely work my way through the whole numerology.
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Date: 2009-12-30 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-30 06:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-30 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-30 08:25 pm (UTC)Do you think Kathryn would mind if I used some of these photos as reference, with full credit?
Please do. Actually, I took the photos, not Kathryn. She was driving.
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Date: 2009-12-30 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-30 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-31 08:38 am (UTC)Her memory for a blessing.
Those are gorgeous, gorgeous photographs. They make a story of their own.