pardon the egg salad stains

[incandescens]

My uberboss has decided that he wants to be copied in on all information flows passing through the department. I, ah . . . admire his enthusiasm.

Was watching The Replacement Killers while trying to write. It didn't exactly help my writing speed. I note that even though it did not compare to a proper (oh, the snobbery) HK film, Chow Yun Fat is still Chow Yun Fat.

In the translations of Chinese poetry I'm reading, women are constantly referred to as having "jade-white" skin. I think that I will apply this, at some point, to someone who will not be happy about such an epithet. :)

I sit here, past one in the morning in England, wrap tucked round my knees, in a silent house, my parents asleep already upstairs. In New Hampshire, a friend of mine waits for her husband to get home from work, and it's past eight in the evening there, and we speak to each other real-time on a MUSH where we both hang out, five hours apart, the other side of the world from each other, and if I could shape this thought clearly, the image of the strangeness of it, then I would have something useful to day. Sigh.

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I like this.

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1130.html

This too.

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1147.html

(Really, I need to be locked away from interesting poetry sites.)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

And then there was the marginalia I found in a police procedural set in southern California, where a very precise ESL speaker (one can tell these things) had crossed out the 'when' in the cop's 'Expect me when you see me' and written beside it 'until.'
-mjj

[multiplexer.livejournal.com]

Just so you know... jade isn't always green. The most popular jade is green. It comes in green, lavender, red, yellow, white and black.

Often, the Chinese prize white jade for its purity. It's very much a complement.

[archangelbeth]

That time isn't a constant, in a strange way? Or, perhaps, that technology is a Very Fine Thing Indeed to have.

I used to be such a... back-to-nature sort of person.

One quasi-emergency C-section, for reasons which were a leading cause of infant and maternal death once, and a diagnosis of hypothyroidism (which my mother thinks might be related to a common thread of eventual dementia in the female line of the family) later...

We don't have ENOUGH technology.

I think I will continue this thought over in my main journal. O:>