Cats and Queens
Why is it--no matter where the cat vomits, I step directly into it? I was in stocking feet, (very pretty socks, too, blue with roses) about to put my shoes on to leave the house when I step into cat vomit. ICK.
I did go to see a "grown up" movie today, one Demelza would not have liked. Both my sisters, my mom, and I went to see Victoria and Adbul. I loved it--sweet and warm with beautiful costumes and scenery. The guy playing Abdul was gorgeous. And Dame Judy is always awesome.
Reading The Lost Book of Moses by Chanan Tigay, a fascinating real life saga about a man in the 1880s who may have had some of the first of the dead sea scrolls, but was accused of fraud and forgery. Since it was impossible to carbon date or assure authenticity in the Victorian time, the possible earliest version of Deuteronomy was lost to history, probably burned in a house fire. Chanan Tigay is a current professor at SF State who has devoted many years to uncovering what happened to the scrolls.
Working on not one, not two, not even three stories--I think it's six right now... in three different fandoms.
The air is quite smokey every day, but the Northern California fires are an hour or more away from where I live. The local fairgrounds have been turned into an evacuation center as more and more cities are evacuated in and around the wine country. So very, very sad. People dead. Whole neighbourhoods gone. A school for autistic children, where my friend's daughter went, burned to the ground. There was a call out for medical staff to go help at some of the evacuation centers an hour away, but I confess, I am a coward. I wouldn't want to get caught in the traffic, nor the fire and be cut off from getting home to Demelza. I did donate money--twice already. Give to the Red Cross or a local charity, if you can.
I did go to see a "grown up" movie today, one Demelza would not have liked. Both my sisters, my mom, and I went to see Victoria and Adbul. I loved it--sweet and warm with beautiful costumes and scenery. The guy playing Abdul was gorgeous. And Dame Judy is always awesome.
Reading The Lost Book of Moses by Chanan Tigay, a fascinating real life saga about a man in the 1880s who may have had some of the first of the dead sea scrolls, but was accused of fraud and forgery. Since it was impossible to carbon date or assure authenticity in the Victorian time, the possible earliest version of Deuteronomy was lost to history, probably burned in a house fire. Chanan Tigay is a current professor at SF State who has devoted many years to uncovering what happened to the scrolls.
Working on not one, not two, not even three stories--I think it's six right now... in three different fandoms.
The air is quite smokey every day, but the Northern California fires are an hour or more away from where I live. The local fairgrounds have been turned into an evacuation center as more and more cities are evacuated in and around the wine country. So very, very sad. People dead. Whole neighbourhoods gone. A school for autistic children, where my friend's daughter went, burned to the ground. There was a call out for medical staff to go help at some of the evacuation centers an hour away, but I confess, I am a coward. I wouldn't want to get caught in the traffic, nor the fire and be cut off from getting home to Demelza. I did donate money--twice already. Give to the Red Cross or a local charity, if you can.