your daily unnews

9 days since Connie Willis' All Clear came out. It's finally arrived and awaits me at the post office. In the meantime, though, I'm super enjoying Jane Langton's Emily Dickinson is Dead--it's floating to the top of my "fave Langtons" list. As usual she does a great job of interesting you in the location and subject. In this case University of Mass, but more so Emily Dickinson, whose poetry keeps getting quoted.

I still haven't finished Julius Caesar. And I haven't yet gotten back to the Musketeers.

Nano in 4 days! It's all very exciting.

In other news...

Minion is so wild, every day I find new things spilled about the apartment. A garbage can, a piece of furniture overturned. Usually I don't witness what precipitated it, but today she was bugging Haley up on some empty boxes - Haley ran off - Minion tried to follow - when she jumped the box she was on slipped and flew in one direction - and Minion flew in the other direction - she did some sort of triple lutz through the treadmill - and it took her 10 seconds to clear her head before continuing the pursuit.


In other other news...

I love it when a story is posted in the news that elicits funny comments. Today it's a CBC article on a French book that talks about the mafia corruption in Montreal. Here are some comments:

* Ok, so the Mafia controls all the major construction in Montreal. I could live with that if at least they did a good job. [Quebec is notorious for bad roads.]

 

* Let's get down to what is truly important to the Quebec politicians:

- Is this Mafia business being conducted in French?

* In other news: fire discovered to be hot, water determined to be wet.  [Many people wrote "big surprise" since Montreal's mafia and bikerness is well known. But one always appreciates a more amusing phrasing. Same with the next comment.]

 

 *  A magazine should do a cover story on this.