Friday, July 25, 2008
Wow. Ambient is the key book of the whole series. Endover now. Grasped. Puzzlepieced.
Posted at 3:59:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Calling cool restaurants to try to get reservations is scaryscaryscary, but very buzzzzzing when it works. The guy at Evangeline (Bob. R's favourite!) was incredibly nice even though I called at 11:30 PM. More tomorrow... aaagh!
Posted at 12:52:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
I forgot to mention, Suder blueberries are not only delightfully tart, but they pop in your mouth like caviar.
What else. I don't remember. Oh yes. Matchamint Water is exceedingly drinkable. I invented it. Maybe it's a waste of good matcha, but maybe not.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
I like this cooler, rainy, thundery weather (for a few days, not forever!) but something about the atmosphere keeps giving me a killer headache every night.
Posted at 5:54:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Got more Suder berries. Suder blueberries are officially my favorite blueberries ever. They're tart! Tart tart tart. I hate too-sweet blueberries.
Also, now I really don't think I read Ambient before, even though the beginning seemed so familiar. I have no idea what's going to happen in the parts that I've been reading for the past few days, and it's very exciting! I really think my theory about starting to read it and giving up in annoyance must be true, though it's not annoying me at all now.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
I spent all day on this skirt. eXXXXXhausted. I had so so SO much trouble getting it to hang right. I think it finally turned out okay, though. Or AO, as the Womackworld denizens would say. I was 99% convinced it would end up in the trash. Just shows remaking isn't always a breeze. I knew it would be a challenge, because it was much much too big and had a side zipper, so I couldn't just cheat and take in the sides. I had to remove the zipper, completely redraft the side seams, cut off a bunch from the waist to shorten it, sew the zipper back in, sew the new side seams (ten thousand times before I got them right), and redo the waist. Oh yeah, and darts. (The darts turned out really good.) I did not have to make a new bottom hem, but that's about all.
Posted at 8:07:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Darts are cool. I like darts. Thunder and thunder and thunder and dark and hardhard rain today. Listening to "Blood In My Eyes." Oh man. Winding round and round. And Richard. Lovelight and Please Please. I'm all whirlwinded to ALB past. Oh yeah--in Ambient last night: "Music resounded throughout the high room, music from the longaway: songs by Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, the Band, E himself." !! The Band in Womack!! My mind blew. I wonder which song? Probably "To Kingdom Come."
Real Nighthawks is playing a song from Fake Nighthawks: "Rainy Night in Soho." :-) And yes, he said, "God bless Shane MacGowan."
Posted at 2:38:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
This is nice, but I have a gigantic headache tonight (I think I tilted my head back too far again) and I need to sleepaway. BTW, now I'm not sure afterall that I read Ambient, because it doesn't seem familiar anymore. Maybe I started to read it and couldn't take it and threw it across the room partway through. Entirely possible.
Wow. I was listening to Fake Nighthawks (both mine and Mary's) while doing a sewing project, and really missing real Nighthawks, so I randomly looked it up online and it was randomly playing right now. (Only, the new Maine version isn't called Nighthawks anymore.) And guess what's playing? A Dennis Wilson song that I don't know (obviously from the new Pacific Ocean Blue CD), but I immediately recognised it as Dennis. And now it's "Love and Mercy." :-) Oh wow oh wow... now Bob R. is talking. It's so weird to hear his voice again. ...Hour #2 = "our Dylan fix"! It's great. Lots of ship songs.
Posted at 12:53:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Ak. Suder blueberries are the best. I hope I can get more.
Posted at 12:50:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Monday, July 21, 2008
First Suder Store visit of the season! They had early tomatoes ("first of the season") but I didn't get any since they didn't look ready yet (did get some little plum tomatoes, though), and they also had sweet corn! I didn't know it was corn time this early in the summer. I got four ears. They were good, although not quite as good as that late summer corn last year. I also got Suder Store's own raspberries and blueberries! (!) They are both really really really good. The blueberries are totally different from South Glastonbury blueberries. They're smaller, and more tart. Very blue and intense. Nice. The raspberries are also different and extra good. Suder was there and smiled at me Suderishly and mumbled, "Nice seeing you again." :-) I said, "Nice seeing you again."
Posted at 7:48:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
There's a new barista at Rocky that I actually like. I've only had him as a cashier so far, but three times in a row. He always listens to my drink order, and warms up my cup. His nickname is officially Fresh Faced Guy. I have been going to Rocky more often pretty much solely because Fresh Faced Guy is doing a good job.
I am super-excited about the Desert of Maine! Heeheehee. Not the Dessert of Maine.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
I think I read Ambient before and didn't remember doing so! It seems familiar...
Posted at 9:43:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
So far, Ambient is much much better than Heathern. Also, I love my remade wrap skirt.
Finished Heathern. The Jake parts (every single one of them) were transcendent; the rest, fractured and senseless. Ambient arrived in the mail today!
Posted at 3:44:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
[Edit, in the morning: Okay, so I didn't hate Heathern, and I'm glad I read it, but this is not a good book. I liked finding out more about Jake's background, and there were some good pieces of information that allowed me to reason out the timeline better (it's made clear that Heathern takes place in 1998, so Random Acts was 1996, but they were written in 1990 and 1993, so both dates were the future at the time), but none of the other characters, including Joanna, the narrator, were very interesting, and I couldn't suss out anything that I'd call a coherent plot.
It's like Womack had all these ideas in his head for background stuff that led up to the other books (this is a prequel to some of the others), so he wrote down what should have stayed as imagination or notes and tried to pass it off as a novel. There are some compelling scenes, but it's so fractured, and the characters so poorly fleshed out, that none of it has much impact. But Jake was great! I love how minimalist Jake is. He's razor-sharp. Jake just works. His relationship with Joanna was sweet, too.
It wasn't that Joanna was awful or anything; I liked her well enough, but, as Womack protagonists go, she was kind of eh. She was no Isabel or Lola, that's for sure. Macaffrey didn't make much of an impression as guest lead, either. Some good ideas here, but, as a whole, poorly executed.]
Hmm. Of the 600 US Starbucks stores that will be closing, only five are in Connecticut: East Windsor, Fairfield, Hartford (Wethersfield Ave.), South Windsor (Evergreen Walk), and Windsor Locks. (Sounds like cities with "Windsor" in the name are jinxed!) I've only ever been to the Evergreen Walk one (not often), plus the Wethersfield Avenue one (across the street from the FRIED CHICKEN place!) once or twice, since it's near the hangar. Evergreen Walk is super close to the original Manchester SBUX (not only that but it's usually empty), and the Wethersfield Ave. one doesn't fit in that part of town at all. If you're that close to Franklin Avenue, you should just go to Novaki's!
Posted at 12:43:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Here's the full list, in PDF format.
