And a porridge in a pine tree?
Sep. 15th, 2005 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackshoegazerCurses abound in the light of night!
I don't know either. I'm home again, and it took me an hour and a half to get through all the posts I missed in the past two days. I really need to trim my friends list a bit, but I don't have the heart.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel is a very odd book indeed. I'm barely 200 pages into this massive tome, but my impression thus far? It's exactly like every other novel set in early 1800's Britain, except this one has weird fairies and magicians in it. The usual fixtures? Servants! Oh, god how I miss my lives when I had servants! Sure, they were nosy and spread gossip to your neighbors for favors and cash, but damn, they would heat my bed-warmer to just the right temperature!
I'm cold.
Fucked up story: Apparently, FEMA communications are messed up, they often accidentally send multiple construction crews to sites for jobs. So these crews arrive and guess how they decide who gets the contract and does the job? They fight over it! Someone I know, his brother runs a construction crew who did a lot of work in Florida after their last hurricane. They would show up at a job, see another crew and then they'd have pipe and crowbar fights over who got the job. This time, this guy and his crew are headed to New Orleans with three campers and a bunch of guns and knives and other nasty weaponry. WTF?
I don't know either. I'm home again, and it took me an hour and a half to get through all the posts I missed in the past two days. I really need to trim my friends list a bit, but I don't have the heart.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel is a very odd book indeed. I'm barely 200 pages into this massive tome, but my impression thus far? It's exactly like every other novel set in early 1800's Britain, except this one has weird fairies and magicians in it. The usual fixtures? Servants! Oh, god how I miss my lives when I had servants! Sure, they were nosy and spread gossip to your neighbors for favors and cash, but damn, they would heat my bed-warmer to just the right temperature!
I'm cold.
Fucked up story: Apparently, FEMA communications are messed up, they often accidentally send multiple construction crews to sites for jobs. So these crews arrive and guess how they decide who gets the contract and does the job? They fight over it! Someone I know, his brother runs a construction crew who did a lot of work in Florida after their last hurricane. They would show up at a job, see another crew and then they'd have pipe and crowbar fights over who got the job. This time, this guy and his crew are headed to New Orleans with three campers and a bunch of guns and knives and other nasty weaponry. WTF?
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Date: 2005-09-15 04:07 pm (UTC)*hangs head in shame*
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Date: 2005-09-16 08:59 am (UTC)