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nnozomi・Rereading The Interior Life. This is such a weird book, both in ways the author obviously intended and in ways she probably didn’t; I’m not sure into which category it fits that everything basically goes right for the heroine and everyone in sight gets a happy ending, but as a fan of happy endings I’m not complaining. Now I really want a sequel and/or fic featuring a fantasy adventure for Sue’s kids when they’re a bit older, conformist Kathy and comedian Mike and calm Mark; I also want it to have background long-established Sue/Siobhan/Fred (and I want Sue and Kelly both to get to go to college). This is also the book that introduced me to Osias Beert and his gorgeous paintings of fruit.
・Mahler 2 was on the radio today, which was nice even though it’s one of the few pieces where I feel like no recorded version can match a live performance. There are a lot of things I like about it, especially the tear-inducing “Ich bin von Gott und will wieder zu Gott” moment of affirmation in the fourth movement (no, I am neither Christian nor a particularly devout Jew, why do you ask), but the Ninth-ian crash of sound at the beginning of the fifth movement—I first heard it in rehearsal, in an old-fashioned auditorium with two thousand wooden seats and the acoustics to be expected, when I was the only person in the audience, and it made me want to hide under the seat in sheer delicious terror.
・Because I can’t do running/swimming right now, I have started doing little bits of yoga off YouTube, some with Y and some by myself; I’ve been trying to find Chinese yoga videos for 一石二鸟, not that I know all the relevant vocabulary. Let me know if anyone has any suggestions (Chinese or otherwise!).
・Work stuff, silly and tiresome: I did not actually ask this lady what time she thought a “16:00 AM” deadline was, but I was real tempted. I would have been less irritated if it hadn’t been the last link in a chain of assorted incompetence... Less annoyingly, I had to translate something about auger screws and I kept misspelling it as “augur.” No fortune telling in the combine harvesters please.
・Things I did not actually take photos of, but I wanted to: a boy in a black school uniform (the old-fashioned gakuran jacket with brass buttons up the front and a high collar) and bright red socks; a row of red tulips in a park with a woman kneeling to sketch them in pencil.
・Photos: A cat admiring its reflection, and then turning to look disdainfully at the camera; a tree in shadow form; a big mural under the train tracks, and a nearby magnolia tree with bonus train; a backyard going back to nature.
Be safe and well.
・Mahler 2 was on the radio today, which was nice even though it’s one of the few pieces where I feel like no recorded version can match a live performance. There are a lot of things I like about it, especially the tear-inducing “Ich bin von Gott und will wieder zu Gott” moment of affirmation in the fourth movement (no, I am neither Christian nor a particularly devout Jew, why do you ask), but the Ninth-ian crash of sound at the beginning of the fifth movement—I first heard it in rehearsal, in an old-fashioned auditorium with two thousand wooden seats and the acoustics to be expected, when I was the only person in the audience, and it made me want to hide under the seat in sheer delicious terror.
・Because I can’t do running/swimming right now, I have started doing little bits of yoga off YouTube, some with Y and some by myself; I’ve been trying to find Chinese yoga videos for 一石二鸟, not that I know all the relevant vocabulary. Let me know if anyone has any suggestions (Chinese or otherwise!).
・Work stuff, silly and tiresome: I did not actually ask this lady what time she thought a “16:00 AM” deadline was, but I was real tempted. I would have been less irritated if it hadn’t been the last link in a chain of assorted incompetence... Less annoyingly, I had to translate something about auger screws and I kept misspelling it as “augur.” No fortune telling in the combine harvesters please.
・Things I did not actually take photos of, but I wanted to: a boy in a black school uniform (the old-fashioned gakuran jacket with brass buttons up the front and a high collar) and bright red socks; a row of red tulips in a park with a woman kneeling to sketch them in pencil.
・Photos: A cat admiring its reflection, and then turning to look disdainfully at the camera; a tree in shadow form; a big mural under the train tracks, and a nearby magnolia tree with bonus train; a backyard going back to nature.
Be safe and well.
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Date: 2022-04-20 11:49 am (UTC)