"curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

[ontology]

i. Right, so, I am leaving for Connecticut tomorrow; and yes, it's only a little less sudden to me than it is to you lot. Dad desperately needs a holiday and has managed to get time off of all of his jobs for this weekend, so we are running off to the Strawberry Park Folk Festival tomorrow and shall be back on Monday. I am rather excited at the prospect, abrupt as it is, because Richard Shindell will be there. (Also Lucy Kaplansky and Dave Mallet and...some other people.) And the weather will be chilly and a bit drizzly and the main stage is surrounded by trees and I could not ask for a better atmosphere. (See, the thing about music festivals is that they are usually terribly hot, and I am not fond of that sort of weather, nor tans, neither. Hot and shadeless, hark you. So this, really, is completely marvellous.) There will be internet access, but I doubt I'll be able to post. And oh, scarves and jumpers and cape, how I've missed you!


ii. In fact, it is beautifully autumnal today -- I am wearing my favourite orange jumper and a cranberry-coloured vest, and the wind is sharp and biting and crisp and evenings are beginning to be a bit witchy, with the wind whistling through the cracks in the windows and leaves fluttering hither and thither. The trees are still mostly green, but I can sense it -- any day now we shall wake up and find that the tree in front of my window has gone gold.


iii. Thanks to the machinations of the thoroughly magnificent lady_moriel , I have just seen my first episode of Firefly. This sounds horribly stoic and businesslike, so picture, if you will, me jumping over piles of clothing and papers and musical instruments in my bedroom, waving my arms like a crazed propeller. Because VERILY IT IS MADE OF AWESOME ADSKLHGLKHG *flail*. The characters! The music! The production values! The plot! The scifi-western-Chinese aesthetic! (Which is so perfectly right that it deserves a meta-y post of its own eventually.) The costumes! The witty repartee dialogue! The awesome! Have I mentioned the characters? Only I think I am madly in love with each and every one already.

And of course I would begin watching this right before I go off on holiday and can't see another episode for five days.

Which I ought to be preparing for straightaway. Oh, and still no word on Oliver!. Good grief, it's been a week. And, er, I am wretchedly behind on the f-list and on emails, so -- really, I'm sorry. I'm a bit harried at the moment, and I am trying to get to you all as best I can. ♥

Comments

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

DRAT YOU. *scowly face*

But, OMG. "Blink" is pretty much my favourite episode of television ever. It's so pretty, and Sally is amazing, and it totally stands on its own as...a really, really short film, or something. Also, it contains the line, "This is my timey-wimey detector. It goes ding when there's stuff." :D

Still. Why can't we have BBC America on our cable plan instead of Style, or Hallmark, or the hunting channel? D:

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

I made "Blink" icons. *nods*