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Oct. 1st, 2012 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings:
- One of my boots is broken. The bottom part of the sole is coming away from the upper part. This is especially frustrating as I had this problem a few weeks ago and took the boot - the same boot - to the cobbler to be repaired. I feel as though I ought to get some sort of refund. Mostly, I just want my boots to be wearable.
- We're planning a horror movie fest at Bainbridge for the Friday before Halloween. This is awesome on two levels. 1) Horror movie fest! 2) Every time I come to work now, people want to talk to me about horror films. It's great. It started out just being classic horror (where classic = made before 1980, I guess), but now we're doing two screens so we have classic and modern stuff and people can move between them as they will. I don't know what's on the modern screen, but the classic lineup sounds awesome (it has The Black Cat, so it has to be good). I am totally excited.
- This is the week of All Staff Day, the big eight hour everyone who works at the library meeting. It's on Thursday. I am not terribly enthused. Also, I am slightly worried about lunch, as it's meant to be provided at the venue and is apparently going to be sandwiches. Now, I eat a lot of sandwiches as a rule but, see, those are sandwiches that I make. I know what's on them. I have no way of knowing what these people are going to be putting on their sandwiches and it's probably rude to deconstruct a sandwich on a buffet table before deciding whether it's safe to eat. Maybe I will pack a lunch.
- I am reading this book called Supergods, by Grant Morrison. It is a sort of history of superhero comics, interspersed with autobiographical details from Mr Morrison's life. I have just gotten to the creation of Spider-Man. Mostly, it reminds me a lot of Stephen King's Danse Macabre, in that it is a rambley, conversational thing, written by someone who both loves and works in the field, and in that if you gave it to me and didn't tell me the author, I could potentially guess just because I'm familiar with their other work. Danse Macabre could be written by no one but Stephen King and Supergods is maybe the most written-by-Grant-Morrison book possible that isn't a comic book. I mean, I'm really enjoying it but occasionally there are passages about how Mercury is one of the patron gods of comic books and how Billy Batson became Captain Marvel through a shamanic experience and is the Hermetic magus as superhero. And yes, that is interesting (if also really odd), but mostly it makes me feel inexpressibly fond. Also, the book has reminded me that I have meant for some time to read The Ten Cent Plague, so I should maybe put that on hold.*
- The yarn for my new sweater might come tomorrow. (Today, the tracking information says it is in Kent, so I'm hopeful.) It was something like 72 degrees today, so sweaters are still inappropriate to wear but I am going to knit this one nonetheless. I think there's a part of my brain that believes knitting the sweater will force autumn to actually happen.
*I also kinda vaguely want to read Seduction of the Innocent, but I feel like that would probably be a mistake.
- One of my boots is broken. The bottom part of the sole is coming away from the upper part. This is especially frustrating as I had this problem a few weeks ago and took the boot - the same boot - to the cobbler to be repaired. I feel as though I ought to get some sort of refund. Mostly, I just want my boots to be wearable.
- We're planning a horror movie fest at Bainbridge for the Friday before Halloween. This is awesome on two levels. 1) Horror movie fest! 2) Every time I come to work now, people want to talk to me about horror films. It's great. It started out just being classic horror (where classic = made before 1980, I guess), but now we're doing two screens so we have classic and modern stuff and people can move between them as they will. I don't know what's on the modern screen, but the classic lineup sounds awesome (it has The Black Cat, so it has to be good). I am totally excited.
- This is the week of All Staff Day, the big eight hour everyone who works at the library meeting. It's on Thursday. I am not terribly enthused. Also, I am slightly worried about lunch, as it's meant to be provided at the venue and is apparently going to be sandwiches. Now, I eat a lot of sandwiches as a rule but, see, those are sandwiches that I make. I know what's on them. I have no way of knowing what these people are going to be putting on their sandwiches and it's probably rude to deconstruct a sandwich on a buffet table before deciding whether it's safe to eat. Maybe I will pack a lunch.
- I am reading this book called Supergods, by Grant Morrison. It is a sort of history of superhero comics, interspersed with autobiographical details from Mr Morrison's life. I have just gotten to the creation of Spider-Man. Mostly, it reminds me a lot of Stephen King's Danse Macabre, in that it is a rambley, conversational thing, written by someone who both loves and works in the field, and in that if you gave it to me and didn't tell me the author, I could potentially guess just because I'm familiar with their other work. Danse Macabre could be written by no one but Stephen King and Supergods is maybe the most written-by-Grant-Morrison book possible that isn't a comic book. I mean, I'm really enjoying it but occasionally there are passages about how Mercury is one of the patron gods of comic books and how Billy Batson became Captain Marvel through a shamanic experience and is the Hermetic magus as superhero. And yes, that is interesting (if also really odd), but mostly it makes me feel inexpressibly fond. Also, the book has reminded me that I have meant for some time to read The Ten Cent Plague, so I should maybe put that on hold.*
- The yarn for my new sweater might come tomorrow. (Today, the tracking information says it is in Kent, so I'm hopeful.) It was something like 72 degrees today, so sweaters are still inappropriate to wear but I am going to knit this one nonetheless. I think there's a part of my brain that believes knitting the sweater will force autumn to actually happen.
*I also kinda vaguely want to read Seduction of the Innocent, but I feel like that would probably be a mistake.
