Brother: "How did George Takei end up the center of the digital universe?"
Me: "Because he's George Takei. He posts really amusing images/memes that must be shared. I will get on Facebook just to see if he's posted anything new. True, he does not create these tropes, but he has a largish sphere of influence, so that makes him like an Erasmus of the internet. That's funny, because Erasmus was like the internet of the 15th century. How times have changed."
"George Takei is now the tropic center of Facebook. We orbit him like little tiny satellites around a shining (non-sparkling) sun as he collects and sends forth amusements. They must be shared." -- myself on Wednesday
Friend I: "I do. I watched the pilot, and I thought, 'This is stupid.' Then half an hour later I had a craving to watch the next episode."
Me: "Agreed. It's my guilty pleasure. I watch it, and then I think, 'I have to balance this out with a respectable show. I'm going to go watch "Battlestar Galactica."'"
*No, I did not have a schizophrenic conversation with myself.
I have made it in life! To a certain degree anyway. A fellow student in my poetry writing class said that one of the lines I wrote could be put on a refrigerator magnet: "among siblings, one is always a child."
Whoo for freshly-minted aphorisms, or possible koans.
I have a a pair of black ballet slippers, and if you just look at the toes, they look like hooves. Every time I slip them on while wearing long pants, I look down at my legs and think, "I'm a centaur! Hi-ho, awaaaaaaay!!!" Then I remember. I am not a centaur.
If I have done nothing else during this break, I have read. Nothing too fancy, but it has been a delight to devour books of my own choosing, at my own pace, at my own level of difficulty. Not that I don't enjoy struggling with the prose of Henry James or the ideological complexities of Ralph Ellison, but fluff (which comprises much of the books that I completed) has its place. As the Sister has done over at Vie Lyonnaise, I'm including my own list of the books I've read over the break.
Completed: Eternal Man - Truman G. Madsen The Turn of the Screw - Henry James Abarat - Clive Barker Days of Magic, Nights of War - Clive Barker Absolute Midnight - Clive Barker Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine assorted Edgar Allan Poe short stories assorted articles from the "Edgar Allan Poe Review"
Started: A Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Embassytown - China Mieville Night's Master - Tanith Lee
To-read: Rough Stone Rolling - Richard Bushman Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
In other news, Avi, if you're out there reading this, know that I have been listening to "Morally Sound," and I adore it. I make my home-friends listen to it, and in turn it makes me everything I always wanted to be: the cool kid with (at least, comparatively) the most obscure music.
