tired

[trochee]

I'm not feeling so busy, now that my paper's submitted. But I have more work to do, and it's progressing, slowly.

I spent Saturday wandering around my neighborhood on foot, going grocery shopping and dropping off papers with exterra. It was nice to see Priscilla the cat, who was home when I dropped off the papers, but nobody else was.

I spent Sunday lazing about with imtboo; I got to talk to _dkg_ and she to her father and stepmom, and we didn't rush anywhere, or anything. We went for a long walk, to a mystery writing-place, had pastries and cocoa, and both noodled on our not-matching laptops. I failed to get any work done, and so did she. We walked back past a hole-in-the-wall ethiopian food place named for the daughter of the owners, and had dinner there, along with Miss Namesake, who was watching the Disney Channel and lying about her age ("I'm seven," she insisted when questioned; "no, not really," she added, "I'm six." imtboo was convinced that even six was a stretch.)

Went back to Boo's house and watched the Tony awards by flipping channels -- neither of us would go out of our way to see them ordinarily, that's for sure. I wasn't impressed by most of it -- the musicals, in particular, seem completely cliche without even being form-focused. I think I could like musicals if I could be convinced that it was like butoh or chinese opera or independent comics (in that there's a rich background against which novel art is contrasting) and this is one of those (like the first two) where I just don't fully understand the references. But I think that big mainstream musical shows are not like that.

Boo got a platonic email from an admirer, and I wrestled with irrational jealousy. I told her about it, and we talked it out. I felt like a jerk for feeling that way, but she was glad I told her instead of sitting on it. So was I -- taking a risk to tell her was rewarded by her kindness in how she took it.

Today my body is shutting down. I feel like I have a sickness coming on, perhaps, or just need to sleep for twelve hours. I don't have any symptoms except feeling tired, though.

Comments

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Oh no no sickness.
Interesting how the release of emotions takes you easily to your body shutting down.
You have been wanting to sleep and haven't been able to ... do you need anything ?
Your account of the Tony's made laugh out loud. You're cute. I love you.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

i think I'll be fine. yeah, I wonder about that sickness/emotions thing too.

not sure what's needed, entirely. rest, I think, simple enough.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

You've just ended a pretty long stretch with you move/trip/deadline too. I am sure you need rest.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Tony's (sic) ?

practicing with 'sic'

[trochee.livejournal.com]

nice try to practice with the new lingo. but I am not sure how you intend it. Are you asking me "is Tony's [sic] the right way to spell this?" that's a perfectly good use.

But since it's often in the context of a quotation, you probably would want (1) to comment on your own use, not mine; in that context you might point out "did you like my use of the apostrophe in Tony's [sic]?"

you'll note I dodged the question of the apostrophe by saying "Tony awards" -- I couldn't decide how to pluralize "Tony" -- is it "Tonies"? "Tony's"? "Tonys"? The first one treats it like a common noun, and has a regular spelling change, but it's not a common noun; the second one has a difficult relationship with the usual intension of the 's phrasal affix; the third one (1) violates the spelling-changing guidelines from the first, (2) has a terminal -ys which always makes me think of Greek, but (3) doesn't treat "Tony" as a common noun, and I don't think it should be here either.

Ah, ich bin ein language geek.

[isolt.livejournal.com]

I think you're onto something with musical theatre -- much like classical Japanese poetry, the clichés aren't to be avoided; rather they provide a framework to work within, engage, and subvert in order to get your point across. Two things that, I think, do this excellently are the musical episode of Buffy and Avenue Q (with a nod in the direction of the South Park movie as well).

Of course, having been pretty much weaned on musicals, I usually get the references and nods in the direction of tradition, which might lead to my continuing to like them.

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better. I also hope the lab comes up with a solution that doesn't require much in the way of figuring it out. It's bad enough trying to FIND old data. And glad to hear of a plain old nice day.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

i do feel better. I bounce back quick.

By contrast, I think the lab's solutions are a long way off. Still hoping, though.

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

Yep. I didn't want to dive in to that over there. Glad you feel better.