Idol voting has gone up for the week. I'm in the bottom few votes of tribe RM so far...

Since my entry, mshades ' entry, and bewize 's entry have all talked about Pandora, I thought these might be appropriate. All are late-nineteeth/early-twentieth century works by British artists.





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I'd hoped to get a LiveJournal idol entry up this week, but I just don't have time--there's still a lot for me to get done between now and tomorrow night (hello, coffee cup)--hence, bye.

therealljidol has the voting list up again. If you liked Fat--I'm in Tribe Four, and you don't have to be a member of the community to vote this time around. Oh, and you can vote here. (It'll be good practice for November 9th.)

In other news...


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More voting here. This time around you have to be a member of the community to vote; it only takes a moment to join.

Voting is up.

In other news, my computer is dying a slow, languorous death. I lost about three hundred words of work today which, fortunately, is not as bad as it could have been.

And now, bed. I'm doing the Tufts 10K on Monday, so I'm attempting to be healthy in the lead up to it.

Finally--there'll be a Fairy Tale Friday at the end of the coming week ( Read more... )

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Week Three
Topic Three: A Moment of Bliss

Even across the room, I see them, vultures circling a carcass. First,  coke-bottle glasses lady, her wrinkled hands shoving books into a box, her tiny raisin eyes glaring at the crowd. Then the tall, grey-bearded man, his fingers running over spines, catching at the thickest, pulling a chosen few into ( Read more... )

Out at a local used bookstore the other day, I came across a university course reader, Folk & Fairy Tales (3rd ed), edited by Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek. From the introduction:

The distinguished American critic Leslie Fielder once observed that children's books introduce all the plots used in adult works and that adult responses are ( Read more... )

You can vote here.

In other news, my internet connection seems to have half resolved itself: although the connection still drops off quite frequently, I can get it back within a moment or two (in contrast to having no connection at all for long periods). I think my airport card may be dying...

Word and Scrivener, unfortunately, are still crashing on ( Read more... )

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Week Two
Topic Two: Apathy - What I Should Care About, but Don't.

Once upon a time, I believed in happy ever afters. Princess gets prince, evil stepmother gets comeuppance. Treasure seeker finds treasure, slays dragon, rescues entire family from poverty. Enchanted frog wheedles kiss, spell breaks, pomp ensues.

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