Friday, August 09, 2002
I finished Chapter Twelve yesterday, right on schedule, the final 1,156 words bringing me to the close of the next to the last chapter of Low Red Moon. Which left me profoundly relieved. Being so close to The End. Today, Jennifer and I will proof and correct Chapter Twelve, and I have some odds and ends pertaining to other projects to deal with.
Anyway, after finishing the chapter, I braved the heat and an Orange Ozone Alert (and my agorophobia; I'd not left the apartment for the last five days) and went to a matinee of The Road to Perdition , which was a very beautiful movie, in almost every respect.
Of course, the little list of favorite things I did the other day, which was meant to stem the tide of e-mails asking about my favorite things, actually had the opposite effect. I call this phenomenon The Kudzu Effect, when any given action results in a more or less opposite, or equally undesirable, situation to that which the action was intended to produce. Yes, you are all my little guinea pigs. Or, if you prefer, you can be hamsters. I'm flexible (but that's another story). Anyway, here's a new list, just because I'm not yet awake enough to proofread, and, besides, proofreading is almost as boring as watching HGTV.
1. Favorite Kool-Aid Flavor: Cherry (it leaves the worst stains).
2. Favorite Cure Album: Disintegration.
3. Favorite Breakfast Food: leftover beef and broccoli (or egg drop soup).
4. Favorite Pre-Raphaelite Artist: John William Waterhouse.
5. Favorite Matthew Arnold Poem: "Dover Beach."
6. Favorite Section of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land:: "What the Thunder Said."
7. Favorite Y. B. Yeats Poem: "The Second Coming."
8. Favorite Anne Sexton Poem: "With Mercy for the Greedy"
9. Favorite Color: Blue.
10. Favorite PlayStation Game: All the Tomb Raider games.
11. Favorite Flower: African Violets.
12. Macintosh or PC: Dumb question. Mac.
13. Favorite Letter of the Alphabet: Q and X (because they're worth so many points in Scrabble).
14. Favorite School of Literary Criticism: A tie between Russian Formalism and the New Critics.
15. Favorite Hair on a Goth DJ: Scary Lady Sarah.
16. Favorite Cemetery: Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI.
17. Favorite Pizza Topping: Mushrooms.
18. Favorite Power Puff Girl: Buttercup.
19. Favorite Shopping Weakness: Lamps.
20. Favorite Farscape Villian (not counting Scorpius): Grayza.
Oh, and Jennifer asked me to once again mention her ongoing Ebay empire, a hopeless attempt to get rid of lots of books and stuff so we don't have to move them north. It's at:
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/spookydooky/
Time to go proofread. (sigh). Well, at least tonight is Farscape.
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