Ten Fragments
Wednesday, October 27th, 2004 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthIn weird restless mood, and have very little to say about anything: but, in time-honoured LJ tradition, shall say it anyway.
1. John Peel: am gutted. He wasn't as influential for me as for many of my friends: but it was his influence that shaped their tastes, and spawned a thousand compilation tapes / CDs / MP3 collections from which I've harvested a good 80% of my non-classical preferences. (And I think it was Peel who played Veljo Tormis -- weird Estonian choral stuff -- and, I'm almost certain, Preisner: he wasn't snobbish about labels or genres.)
2. Blood Pressure. I have a proper BP monitor now. It says scary things, for instance that first thing in the morning I have the BP of a corpse (possibly a recently-animated one). Am going to make a Chart and poke my GP with it.
3. Biber! I have the other Biber Mass (Brussels) and it's glorious. Had to delay departure for Tonbridge yesterday so as to transfer it to iPod. Yay polyphony, and martial brass, and the echo of Salzburg Cathedral.
4. Mud! All over the place at home, courtesy of a splendid walk in the woods yesterday with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladymoonray -- who forgot to mention the pterodactyl nests.
5. NaNoWriMo: it takes shape. Purchasing laptop tomorrow fromreddragdiva. Then 50 chapters, each one thousand words long (plus a social life, Verdi's Requiem, Novacon and other Novemb'ry things). I can write a thousand words in an hour, usually; so this should be straightforward, apart from my usual dithering re plot.
6. Barclays have just charged me £8 for a Spell of Cheque-book Location, a.k.a. "I have mislaid my chequebook, please could you cancel it for me?"
7. The Moon looked full yesterday, but according to my calendar is not full until tomorrow. Hope the sky clears enough to photograph it as I walk across Chelsea Bridge after work.
8. BSFA tonight! Details here.
9. Long novels: Tolkien, whose Lord of the Rings trilogy I've totted up at 470,000 words (appendices excluded) is revealed as a Lightweight.
10. Werk. I should do some, even though looks as though contract'll be over by Christmas. They'll be sorry etc etc. Meanwhile, I'll be sorry, as the next couple of months must now perforce be spent working as many hours as possible.
1. John Peel: am gutted. He wasn't as influential for me as for many of my friends: but it was his influence that shaped their tastes, and spawned a thousand compilation tapes / CDs / MP3 collections from which I've harvested a good 80% of my non-classical preferences. (And I think it was Peel who played Veljo Tormis -- weird Estonian choral stuff -- and, I'm almost certain, Preisner: he wasn't snobbish about labels or genres.)
2. Blood Pressure. I have a proper BP monitor now. It says scary things, for instance that first thing in the morning I have the BP of a corpse (possibly a recently-animated one). Am going to make a Chart and poke my GP with it.
3. Biber! I have the other Biber Mass (Brussels) and it's glorious. Had to delay departure for Tonbridge yesterday so as to transfer it to iPod. Yay polyphony, and martial brass, and the echo of Salzburg Cathedral.
4. Mud! All over the place at home, courtesy of a splendid walk in the woods yesterday with
ladymoonray -- who forgot to mention the pterodactyl nests.5. NaNoWriMo: it takes shape. Purchasing laptop tomorrow from
reddragdiva. Then 50 chapters, each one thousand words long (plus a social life, Verdi's Requiem, Novacon and other Novemb'ry things). I can write a thousand words in an hour, usually; so this should be straightforward, apart from my usual dithering re plot.6. Barclays have just charged me £8 for a Spell of Cheque-book Location, a.k.a. "I have mislaid my chequebook, please could you cancel it for me?"
7. The Moon looked full yesterday, but according to my calendar is not full until tomorrow. Hope the sky clears enough to photograph it as I walk across Chelsea Bridge after work.
8. BSFA tonight! Details here.
9. Long novels: Tolkien, whose Lord of the Rings trilogy I've totted up at 470,000 words (appendices excluded) is revealed as a Lightweight.
10. Werk. I should do some, even though looks as though contract'll be over by Christmas. They'll be sorry etc etc. Meanwhile, I'll be sorry, as the next couple of months must now perforce be spent working as many hours as possible.
