And... breathe out

[steepholm]

Today I gave my last tutorial of the year and brought home a heavy box of 3,000-word essays, which I have already begun to mark. This is one of the hinges of my year, as I move from a largely sedentary existence to an almost immobile one, and have to invent reasons to get up from my desk. If I'm not careful, a diet of marking, writing papers and applications, and similar opiates will seep by capillary action along all my neural pathways, leaving my mind dull and soggy to the touch. I begin to wish I'd booked to go to Eastercon (where half my friends list is evidently bound), but it was impossible for various practical reasons. I look forward to hearing all about it, anyway.

In this state of demi-torpor I watched television over dinner. On Just a Minute someone claimed that Mary Shelley was Percy's sister (surely that's deviation?). Then came Eggheads, in which Gertrude Stein was described as a travel writer. What was mass entertainment coming to? I was in danger of writing on the screen in red pen. But it was all made up for later, by a programme with wonderful shots of a recently-discovered young mammoth, resplendent with long strawberry-blond hair and orange highlights. Ah, there's a picture of it here.

And here, while I'm at it, is a portrait of Rudy Vallee by the infant Andy Warhol.

And here is a picture of a bed.

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[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

...I like bed.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

A four poster would be cooler, but perhaps not in a terraced house.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

No, it would be hard to get into the house and set up.

'I like bed' is really about the most energy I could summon last night. Went on a Landmarks of the Fourth Branch road trip and there was a blizzard. :p

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Did you find yourself in Dinas Mawddwy at all? That, at least, is where they filmed The Owl Service.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Not this time, though I have been past it before! We went to Tomen y Mur, Llech Gronw, Llyn Nantlle, Caernarfon, Dinas Dinlle, and Maen Dylan.

In the snow.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Brrr!

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you won't be at Eastercon, as I didn't overlap with you last year. But maybe one year we'll both make it.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

It will happen!

[chilperic.livejournal.com]

Eastercon is slowly being born. That is, fjm and I spotted members of the Committee as we came back to the Radisson Edwardian last night, and I think fjm is helping with set up now. Me, I am reading Ballard's "The Drowned World" in preparation for a panel, and planning to go back to the house later today to pick up things I have forgotten... (as from Eastercon we are going straight to South Devon to a rented cottage for a bit of a holiday).

Sorry you are not going to be here!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

South Devon, eh - nice! If you're passing through Bristol on the way back, come for lunch (or whatever meal is appropriate to the time of day).

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[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Whereas everyone knows that Gertrude Stein was a cookery writer, and Rick's mother - she taught him everything he knows!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I've tried her recipe for Tender Buttons of Lamb. Delicious!

As a matter of fact, Alice B. Toklas really did write a cookbook, including a recipe for hashish fudge, years before everyone was making it.

A fish is a fish is a fish is a fish...

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's what made me think of cookbooks. My brother used to bake the brownies.

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