Ah, Saturday!
Sep. 2nd, 2006 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ann_leckieNo work! Though Paidhi Boy has violin in an hour or two.
Not exactly a relaxing evening and morning, though. Paidhi Girl had a schoolfriend over to spend the night. They ate chicken strips and tater tots, and then played, and then Paidhi Girl had to go to violin herself (something I'd forgotten about when we first made the arrangements). Fortunately, the friend is easily amused--one merely puts a Mr. Bean disc in the DVD player. She and Paidhi Boy ate a large bowl of popcorn and watched "Mind the Baby Mr. Bean" twice. Because, according to Schoolfriend, "It's funny! It's even funnier than Merry Christmas Mr. Bean!" In a very emphatic, and authoritative, voice.
They were up very late, and I'd hoped they would all sleep in, but they didn't! It was My Little Pony and toy trains all over the living room floor by seven am, and I had to get up. A large number of cinnamon rolls later, they have put away the My Little Pony things and are playing Sims2.
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velourmane's story in Subterranean #4 rocked, like unto a thing that rocketh. And someone else has said it, too! (got the link from Scalzi)
Yay!
Not exactly a relaxing evening and morning, though. Paidhi Girl had a schoolfriend over to spend the night. They ate chicken strips and tater tots, and then played, and then Paidhi Girl had to go to violin herself (something I'd forgotten about when we first made the arrangements). Fortunately, the friend is easily amused--one merely puts a Mr. Bean disc in the DVD player. She and Paidhi Boy ate a large bowl of popcorn and watched "Mind the Baby Mr. Bean" twice. Because, according to Schoolfriend, "It's funny! It's even funnier than Merry Christmas Mr. Bean!" In a very emphatic, and authoritative, voice.
They were up very late, and I'd hoped they would all sleep in, but they didn't! It was My Little Pony and toy trains all over the living room floor by seven am, and I had to get up. A large number of cinnamon rolls later, they have put away the My Little Pony things and are playing Sims2.
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
velourmane's story in Subterranean #4 rocked, like unto a thing that rocketh. And someone else has said it, too! (got the link from Scalzi)I was expecting a lot of silliness and maybe some snarkiness but all my offbase preconceived notions were thrown out the window with the issue's first story, Rachel Swirsky's "Scene From a Dsytopia". This is Swirsky's first published story and man did she hit it out of the ballpark. By picking up the tiniest background characters of a story and then expanding on why they might really be in that story it immediately brought to mind every single one of those damn "Star Trek" episodes where the unnamed crewmember died in the first five minutes. Swirsky's piece is way more indepth then that - it's stunning - and much more serious. So I knew, from the very beginning, that this issue was not at all like what I expected.
Yay!