Reasons to be (moderately) happy

[flemmings]

1. This, via asakiyume, is just so cool.

2. TIFF Bell Lightbox sent me an online questionnaire request, which I finally answered. Turns out to be advertising for a major Chinese film retrospective set for this summer. Which might be interesting, even though it will be a) as packed as the Miyazaki festival last year (Sunday's film was notably pleasant for the only half-full theatre), b) far far away at the Lightbox, and c) in the deadly and thunderous depths of summer.

3. Friday is a holiday, yay. Sunday is also a holiday, boo. Do my shopping on Thursday.

ETA: LJ's preview function is borked.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I was intrigued when I got notification that someone with an LJ handle I didn't recognize had mentioned the mysterious benefactor story, so I came to visit you, and I just fell in love with the Carol Ann Duffy poem you've got in your bio. I think I loved every single line--and, in fact, may blog it.

So. Happy to meet you!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you too, now I can delurk legitimately. The Friends' FL option is a source of much serendipity and delight, your entries most definitely among them.

It's a splendid poem, isn't it? I got it from incandescens, also a provider of Useful Things; took me an oddly long time to memorize but now it works almost like a mantra. I was much chuffed to learn that Duffy is England's poet laureate- "the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position."

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

What a splendid group of firsts! I figured she had to be English, what with the shipping bulletin at the end there and the mention of the midlands. I used to hear the shipping bulletin, for the brief period we lived in England, and it was such a mysterious and beautiful mantra--yes, you're right, it really is like that. So that line made me turn around and read the poem, and then, wow: sieve of her hands, and the Latin chanting of a train. Definitely a poem that would bear memorization.

I'm going to have to start browsing the Friends FL myself--this kind of encounter is so wonderful.

[incandescens]

That is a very cool set of events!

Enjoy the holidays! I certainly shall be.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Holidays are to be cherished, but a stubborn part of me says 'separation of church and state, rottit, separation.'

[incandescens]

True, true... but holidays!

(Petty, I know.)