Sweetness in the air
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avreliaI like the scent of linden trees blossoms - faintly sweet, but not heavy and invasive.
They wake up in me atavistic desire to harvest them, dry up in the attic (which I don’t have), and make linden tea…
Not in the city, of course. But, I really miss harvesting the herbs…
Short review of the previous week: was either busy working or too tired to write anything, and returned to a glorious lurking career.
The heat wave in Toronto is gone (and I hope will be gone for some time), so my cognitive powers more or less returned.
Last Saturday were on a mostly Cameroon party. Lots of people form Cameroon, food (with the obligatory communal prayer before), French, African music and dances. Everything was fun, though we mostly kept around the people we know who were not from Cameroon but Kenya and Nigeria.
Last Sunday went to see Mr. &Mrs. Smith, and were pretty well entertained. The plot was incredibly stupid, but the dialog, action, and main characters were delightful, and we had a jolly good time watching Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie kicking each other asses in all the senses. It is possibly the only marital fight that is fun to watch, and I couldn’t keep myself from imagining the icons that could be made from it. Are there any icons?
At work there are a lot of new books (legal) that I ordered and now I am very excited about reading them. Yes, I am. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to read them at work, so I had to do it in the subway and at home…
In the non-legal reading – I am re-reading Georgette Heyer. Some of it I like, some of it bores me from the first page. The lexicon she uses amuses me a great deal, though I don’t think it is a very useful expansion of my vocabulary (well, all kinds of vocabulary expansions are useful, but now I have to go through various words for antiquated clothes and material, and the Regency slang… Probably reading her books in a big lump wasn’t such a good idea.
I have also recently finished The Da Vinci’s Code. I figured I cannot quite argue about it without reading it first, and I read it – both of us, actually. Well, I don’t understand quite what was all that ado about. It was light and fun reading, not very good in any literary sense, but I would forget about it the next day, if there was not so much noise around this book.
We also re-watched all the Star Wars movies after seeing RotS, and the ep.III really holds everything together in a new way, but all the impressions will have to wait to another post, that I hope to make one day.
Yesterday went to walk around in the midst of the Taste of Italy festival in Toronto. Ate some food. Surprisingly, I finished a bottle of wine together with my friend without any visible effects of not being quite sober afterwards. Danced on the street. Had amusing and relaxing talks with the friends.
Spent today doing almost nothing.
They wake up in me atavistic desire to harvest them, dry up in the attic (which I don’t have), and make linden tea…
Not in the city, of course. But, I really miss harvesting the herbs…
Short review of the previous week: was either busy working or too tired to write anything, and returned to a glorious lurking career.
The heat wave in Toronto is gone (and I hope will be gone for some time), so my cognitive powers more or less returned.
Last Saturday were on a mostly Cameroon party. Lots of people form Cameroon, food (with the obligatory communal prayer before), French, African music and dances. Everything was fun, though we mostly kept around the people we know who were not from Cameroon but Kenya and Nigeria.
Last Sunday went to see Mr. &Mrs. Smith, and were pretty well entertained. The plot was incredibly stupid, but the dialog, action, and main characters were delightful, and we had a jolly good time watching Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie kicking each other asses in all the senses. It is possibly the only marital fight that is fun to watch, and I couldn’t keep myself from imagining the icons that could be made from it. Are there any icons?
At work there are a lot of new books (legal) that I ordered and now I am very excited about reading them. Yes, I am. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to read them at work, so I had to do it in the subway and at home…
In the non-legal reading – I am re-reading Georgette Heyer. Some of it I like, some of it bores me from the first page. The lexicon she uses amuses me a great deal, though I don’t think it is a very useful expansion of my vocabulary (well, all kinds of vocabulary expansions are useful, but now I have to go through various words for antiquated clothes and material, and the Regency slang… Probably reading her books in a big lump wasn’t such a good idea.
I have also recently finished The Da Vinci’s Code. I figured I cannot quite argue about it without reading it first, and I read it – both of us, actually. Well, I don’t understand quite what was all that ado about. It was light and fun reading, not very good in any literary sense, but I would forget about it the next day, if there was not so much noise around this book.
We also re-watched all the Star Wars movies after seeing RotS, and the ep.III really holds everything together in a new way, but all the impressions will have to wait to another post, that I hope to make one day.
Yesterday went to walk around in the midst of the Taste of Italy festival in Toronto. Ate some food. Surprisingly, I finished a bottle of wine together with my friend without any visible effects of not being quite sober afterwards. Danced on the street. Had amusing and relaxing talks with the friends.
Spent today doing almost nothing.
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Date: 2005-06-23 12:12 pm (UTC)I have to space her books between 'other' books - LOL! I don't think I could read her in one big lump.
I'm just a lurker in your lj - hi!
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Date: 2005-06-25 09:31 am (UTC)Reading Georgette Heyer several books in short succession really brings in just how similar the characters are. I read (skimmed through actually) her biorgaphy once, and the biographer said the she had basically two types of heroes and two types of heroines, and she mixes and matches them in different ways. Which is what I notice now more and more. I still enjoy some of her books no matter how often I read them.
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Date: 2005-06-25 01:29 pm (UTC)This makes sense to me. I *do* love her characters, regardless, especially, Tracy, Duke of Andover - I've now read *about* him in two stories - I don't think I've read 'his' story yet, though.
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Date: 2005-06-26 02:00 pm (UTC)My favorite so far is The Grand Sophie - both the heroine and the hero. ;)
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Date: 2005-06-26 02:38 pm (UTC)And I'm sure those characters *do* meet up - wasn't she writing basically about one period in time?