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grinninfooleToday the weather is beautiful, Millari and I both have the day off, and so we're going to Get Things Done. We have made a list, soon we shall have french toast, and so forth. I don't understand why we have time for such activities this weekend when we haven't for the past month, but we do. It's nice.
It's been a great week, really. We had a few folks over on Sunday (including my brother), grilled food, and had a lovely time. Monday, after work, M and I dined extravagantly at the East Side Grill to mark our first anniversary. Wednesday, the fourth, was fun. It was a cloudy, lowering day, but my family came out and we grilled food and had a traditional July Fourth cook-out thing. Mom borrowed Red Lightning. I stayed up very late, watching 1776 for the first time in 30 years. I had no memory of it, other than that my parents had dug it when I was a boy, and I found it delightfully charming. Even folks who don't care for musicals should see it.
Thursday was new comics day, and was a busy, busy day, in part because Lefty actually took the day off. (Good for him!) When I got home that evening, I read Harvey Pekar's new GN, Macedonia. It's an uneven story about an interesting subject. I don't know that the comics medium was the best possible choice, though that is in part a function of the artwork. It's the story of a student at Berkeley named Heather Roberson who went to Macedonia because of her interest in why Macedonia didn't become another Kosovo, because she doesn't agree that wars are inevitable. Had the book been simply her prose narrative of her experiences, that would have been a simple and effective choice (perhaps including pictures of people and places.) As a work of comics, because Ed Piskor's art was simple b&w line work, it was hard to tell how representative it was of the real people and places (supposedly) described. Thus, the book didn't take advantage of a great strength of the synergy of text and images that is comics: its immersive quality. I recommend the book to all who are interested in the Balkans, and the concept of Peace Studies, but as a work of comics qua comics, it's only so-so.
Anyway, I should go and help with the breakfast. M is doing more housework (and we have both done a lot more than has been our usual wont these past few days, and why now?) and the place looks terrific. Before work, I vacuumed the bed room carpet, and that's something upon which the ship of tidiness has foundered for months.
TO DO:
Finish next part of my fic (I'm close...)
Start writing out ideas for the Cambrial campaign--Wandelrust is right: more structure means a shorter, tighter game.
Next week, info interviews about teaching.
It's been a great week, really. We had a few folks over on Sunday (including my brother), grilled food, and had a lovely time. Monday, after work, M and I dined extravagantly at the East Side Grill to mark our first anniversary. Wednesday, the fourth, was fun. It was a cloudy, lowering day, but my family came out and we grilled food and had a traditional July Fourth cook-out thing. Mom borrowed Red Lightning. I stayed up very late, watching 1776 for the first time in 30 years. I had no memory of it, other than that my parents had dug it when I was a boy, and I found it delightfully charming. Even folks who don't care for musicals should see it.
Thursday was new comics day, and was a busy, busy day, in part because Lefty actually took the day off. (Good for him!) When I got home that evening, I read Harvey Pekar's new GN, Macedonia. It's an uneven story about an interesting subject. I don't know that the comics medium was the best possible choice, though that is in part a function of the artwork. It's the story of a student at Berkeley named Heather Roberson who went to Macedonia because of her interest in why Macedonia didn't become another Kosovo, because she doesn't agree that wars are inevitable. Had the book been simply her prose narrative of her experiences, that would have been a simple and effective choice (perhaps including pictures of people and places.) As a work of comics, because Ed Piskor's art was simple b&w line work, it was hard to tell how representative it was of the real people and places (supposedly) described. Thus, the book didn't take advantage of a great strength of the synergy of text and images that is comics: its immersive quality. I recommend the book to all who are interested in the Balkans, and the concept of Peace Studies, but as a work of comics qua comics, it's only so-so.
Anyway, I should go and help with the breakfast. M is doing more housework (and we have both done a lot more than has been our usual wont these past few days, and why now?) and the place looks terrific. Before work, I vacuumed the bed room carpet, and that's something upon which the ship of tidiness has foundered for months.
TO DO:
Finish next part of my fic (I'm close...)
Start writing out ideas for the Cambrial campaign--Wandelrust is right: more structure means a shorter, tighter game.
Next week, info interviews about teaching.
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Date: 2007-07-08 06:22 pm (UTC)I'm glad you think so, and for some insight on why, you might look at the post I just made. I've been pondering this question too, and I think I've come up with some sort of answer. Truthfully though, I'm just enjoying it, and hope that over the summer, with more time on my hands, it can become a life-changing habit that I'll be able to maintain once the fall comes and life gets busier again, and as a result, our home will permanently be a nicer place to live.
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