Five Things This Tuesday
Five random things from Tuesday in a drive-by post.
* Yesterday I rediscovered Bailey’s and espresso is a wonderful drink. It certainly made the afternoon easier to bear. My only regret is that I could only have one. I made it a double in recompense.
* I am at the point in revisions where I begin to think, huh, this book doesn’t suck nearly as much as I thought it did. Go figure. The Teen and the Selkie are unimpressed by me telling them this. Apparently I say it every time. Although this does not make the process of writing a book any easier, it is still a good gift.
* The Muffin got me talking about politics last night while I was folding clothes. No wonder my blood pressure gets sky high–the oligarchy using Fox News to whip the xenophobic mass into a frenzy of hatred while said oligarchy systematically loots the country would tend to make any reasonable human being a little miffed.
* I hate raking leaves. I used to be forced to rake them until blisters broke and bled on my hands. (There were stains on the wooden handles of the rakes that I am reminded of every time I smell wet fallen leaves.) I am everlastingly glad that the Teen and the Princess not only love raking leaves but beg to do it, the crazy kids. I think this year I will let them take care of it.
* I think the type in Foreign Affairs is large so people can read it while on the treadmill. At least, this is when I read it, and I have been really glad of the large type. I am also fond of playing “what’s the agenda?”–looking at the unconscious assumptions and the agenda of the author of any paper dealing with foreign policy issues.
My joys, they are few and small. But they are mine.
Back to work.
