Apr. 28th, 2011

darchildre: moody black-and-white crow looking thoughtful (crow is thoughtful)
Chinese Folk Song, by an anonymous poet
translated by Cecilia Liang

Black ravens squawking in the nest.
Everybody says I have too many sisters.
Ten aren't many.
First sister marries a carpenter.
Wooden beams hold up the roof.
Second marries a bamboo cutter.
Our wet clothes dry on poles.
Third sister marries a fisherman.
Fish, shrimp and crabs go in the soup.
Fourth sister marries a weaver.
We're wearing silk and satin.
Fifth one marries a beancake man.
Starch the clothes in soybean milk.
Sixth sister marries a butcher.
Bean paste fries in lard.
Seventh marries a painter.
The table's painted, the bed's red.
Eighth sister marries a watchman.
Every night he drums you to bed.
Ninth sister marries a tailor.
Measures us for a dress.
Tenth sister marries a farmer.
Piles of rice,
piles of wood,
piles of husks.
darchildre: the fourth doctor's scarft (crafty geek)
Browsing ravely while waiting for the screen that allows me to discard books to come up. (Discard has 2500 items checked out to it, so it takes about 10 minutes to load and you can't do anything else library-related in the mean time.)

Internet, do you think I should knit these? Because, on the one hand: look, it is a summery costume item! Also, I could wear it under skirts in the winter and be warmer! But on the other hand: knitted bloomers. Would I ever really wear those?

Thus, I am torn. Also, I have too many projects going - there's the Kira vest (which needs to be unraveled and redesigned), I have a pair of socks going and plans for several more, and a shawl. But, well, summer and summery clothes are more immediately necessary, so...
darchildre: text:  library rules 1) silence 2) books must be returned by due date 3) do not interfere with the nature of causality (library rules)
A thing that I never understand:

So, I tell a patron she has over $40 in fines. She says, "What?" I go into her account on the computer and show her the items she has fines on - all turned in late, most of them with at least a dollar each.

She says, "And there's nothing we can do to lower the amount?"

I always want to say, "Other than you paying it down? No." I don't, but it's always a near thing.

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