rain

[incandescens]

Rain today, and more rain, and more, and more, and more. I had my umbrella with me to cover me from the station to the place where I work, but that (as do umbrellas ever) only spared my upper half. My father was muttering when I got home about how he had been planning to mow the garden. Before it rained.

Much as I enjoy the tough-minded heroes and heroines of modern fiction, I shall some day write a polite, courteous, mild one, who will be able to inspire respect, nay, even fear, without having to swear. Je le jure.

Must think of presents to request from my brother and sister -- more to the point, presents they'd like to give me. My birthday looms on the horizon. Drat it.

---

The Grey Squirrel

Like a small grey
coffee-pot,
sits the squirrel.
He is not

all he should be,
kills by dozens
trees, and eats
his red-brown cousins.

The keeper on the
other hand,
who shot him, is
a Christian, and

loves his enemies,
which shows
the squirrel was not
one of those.

-- Humbert Wolfe

Comments

[summer-queen.livejournal.com]

I managed to find something today that said "buy me for incandescens." And so I did. ^_^

[incandescens]

(raises eyebrows enquiringly?)

[summer-queen.livejournal.com]

You'll see come next month and birthday time. ^_^

[incandescens]

(mutter mutter chew nails mutter)

[archangelbeth]

I hope it's not the same thing that I got for her, that's all. O:>

[incandescens]

How to wind up a poor hapless livejournaller in five easy lessons?

[archangelbeth]

Who said it needed five easy lessons? O;>

[incandescens]

Experts like you can do it much, much faster. :)

[summer-queen.livejournal.com]

Heh. Given I was on the 5th floor of Animate in Ikebukuro, I think we've safely bought her different things.

[archangelbeth]

Given that I ordered something that looks like it might well be an import, I don't think that's safe at all...

[incandescens]

Ladies, ladies. I know that taunting me is half the fun, but really . . .

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Having played in a few of your games, I firmly believe that *you* are a fine example of a mild-mannered, polite human being who can inspire great fear without ever having to swear.

*grin*

And, yes, I'd love to see such a creature in fiction as well.

[incandescens]

Why, thank you. ;)

Well, there's always my Madeleine. Though she has a temper . . .