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ontology ([personal profile] ontology) wrote2007-10-05 11:34 pm

some scatterings

I keep opening a tab to post, and then I find I'm at a loss as to what to post about. I've been puttering along as usual, the thoughts in my head have been fairly benign, and I'm not feeling particularly bad or particularly good, all in all. I want to say something interesting and clever but there doesn't seem to be much of the interesting or clever amongst the scattered things in my head. Perhaps it will come in a bit, because I have noticed a fascinating trait about myself: whenever I say that I do not have a lot to say, I somehow end up going on for paragraphs.

i. October has come, and the world is finally beginning to really taste like autumn. I am waiting for the tree overhanging my roof and peering into my window to change -- it goes a brilliant gold and fills the room with light. But it is stubbornly remaining green, which rather gets in the way of the autumnal aesthetic I seek. And several days ago my mother and siblings and I lay on our backs on the front lawn and watched the clouds -- the tree across the road has gone gold and there is a spray of leaves beneath it, and there was a thunderstorm rolling in, great dark looming clouds billowing after one another like briny waves churning in the sky and the wind rushing through the leaves and scattering them hither and thither.

ii. I have finished Firefly! Which is rather sad, because now there isn't any more, but now I can abscond with someone's copy of Serenity and at last wander comfortably around fandom. I should make a post about Firefly eventually, because there is so very much to say about it and I don't think I've got the energy for it just now, or the presence of mind, because I start to compose something and it ends in flailing and gibberish and squee. I want to do a great big meta-y post on the pioneer/Oriental culture and how perfect it is, but it keeps on not coming out. Well, maybe when I get my laptop back. Hopefully it will be fixed properly so that I can actually get documents off of it.

iii. I, er. Want to say something. I just don't know what it is. Er, stuff.

[identity profile] anthon1.livejournal.com 2007-10-06 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
i. I crunched through autumn leaves today. It wasn't a very big crunch, but it was the first one of the year and it made me hopeful for things to come.

Your new layout is gorgeous.

[identity profile] faeriemaiden.livejournal.com 2007-10-08 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Aha! I sped through every leaf pile (approximately two) I could find on my ways to and from the library yesterday. The crunch has not, alas, quite reached its peak. It's sort of half-hearted.

Thank you, good sir!

[identity profile] anthon1.livejournal.com 2007-10-08 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well, yes - it was more of a squelch than a crunch, but it's the idea that counts. :D They're still leaves, after all...

[identity profile] faeriemaiden.livejournal.com 2007-10-08 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
And the idea is to CRUSH AND DESTROY. --Er, that is, I just read your last sentence as "they're just leaves, after all", said in the sort of tone generally employed by a Roman emperor watching unfortunates being mauled by wolves in an amphitheatre -- "they're only slaves!". I think I have a problem with my normal thought processes being REALLY MORBID.

[identity profile] anthon1.livejournal.com 2007-10-09 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Having just watched an episode of Doctor Who with Daleks in it, that made me laugh. A lot. And I also share that problem, but personally I look on it as an opportunity. It makes life a lot more ... interesting. :D