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In the old time it was not a crime
Oct. 15th, 2009 03:14 pmA troupe of children just flocked through the pharmacy. They sat cross-legged around our museum display, while the teacher explained how it used to be in the old times.
Teacher: *pointing at the mortar and pestle* Doesn't that look like something a witch would use to make a potion?
Children: *shift uncertainly*
Teacher: You know, the pharmacist was a bit like a witch. She had to take a drop of this and a dash of that and mix it all together into a potion. And if she adds just one drop too much then you would be dead!
Children: *heads swivel towards me in horror*
Me: *tries to look serene and not at all witch-like* Er, not so much any more.
I wonder how it will go the next time they have to take antibiotics? Fun times ahead.
I have defriended someone for the first time on Facebook. I am finding more and more that Facebook is really pretty vile. I am so grateful for the fandom friends I have there, or I would go insane. I think I need to have an online presence under my own name, but sometimes it's a bit of a miserable suck hole. On the other hand, Twitter is loads of fun right now: #yuletide and #nanowrimo are two searches I have running constantly.
I have to do Yuletide nominations. But I never know what to nominate! I worry about wasting my vote on something someone has already nominated, and about not nominating something I really want to requests, and it's all so high-pressure.
Has anyone read An Echo in the Bone? Can someone update me on the Lord John Grey situation? Because, for some reason I cannot get into Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, despite several attempts. Something about her first person voice squicks me, I don't know what it is exactly, but I cannot make myself read those books, not even the third person sections. But I love the Lord John Grey series.
Which reminds me, I've been reading Sebastian St Cyr novels by C S Harris. I stumbled onto them looking for more Regency crime novels, and I quite liked the first two. Sebastian is a bit of a super-duper snowflake, but he's kind of charming, and I have some respect for the fact that C S Harris actually found a genetic disorder to explain her character's super-enhanced senses and remarkably coloured eyes. Though I can find no proof that this condition actually exists, I appreciate the effort. And it makes me want to slash him with the Wolverine of the era. I know I'm poking gentle fun at the character, but the two books I read were fun, and I also really like the two supporting female characters in the book.
From the NaNo forums: Young Adult: ur doing it wrong! One person explains how writing YA characters with super-powers sabotages the aspirations of the youth. The best thing about this post is all the young YA authors piling on him and saying "I'll write what I wanna write! I'll write the most super-duper character ever, with silver eyes and an extra magic wand and apocalyptic mind powers and what's more, I'll like it!" That's the spirit of NaNoWriMo: I'll write what I wanna write.
Teacher: *pointing at the mortar and pestle* Doesn't that look like something a witch would use to make a potion?
Children: *shift uncertainly*
Teacher: You know, the pharmacist was a bit like a witch. She had to take a drop of this and a dash of that and mix it all together into a potion. And if she adds just one drop too much then you would be dead!
Children: *heads swivel towards me in horror*
Me: *tries to look serene and not at all witch-like* Er, not so much any more.
I wonder how it will go the next time they have to take antibiotics? Fun times ahead.
I have defriended someone for the first time on Facebook. I am finding more and more that Facebook is really pretty vile. I am so grateful for the fandom friends I have there, or I would go insane. I think I need to have an online presence under my own name, but sometimes it's a bit of a miserable suck hole. On the other hand, Twitter is loads of fun right now: #yuletide and #nanowrimo are two searches I have running constantly.
I have to do Yuletide nominations. But I never know what to nominate! I worry about wasting my vote on something someone has already nominated, and about not nominating something I really want to requests, and it's all so high-pressure.
Has anyone read An Echo in the Bone? Can someone update me on the Lord John Grey situation? Because, for some reason I cannot get into Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, despite several attempts. Something about her first person voice squicks me, I don't know what it is exactly, but I cannot make myself read those books, not even the third person sections. But I love the Lord John Grey series.
Which reminds me, I've been reading Sebastian St Cyr novels by C S Harris. I stumbled onto them looking for more Regency crime novels, and I quite liked the first two. Sebastian is a bit of a super-duper snowflake, but he's kind of charming, and I have some respect for the fact that C S Harris actually found a genetic disorder to explain her character's super-enhanced senses and remarkably coloured eyes. Though I can find no proof that this condition actually exists, I appreciate the effort. And it makes me want to slash him with the Wolverine of the era. I know I'm poking gentle fun at the character, but the two books I read were fun, and I also really like the two supporting female characters in the book.
From the NaNo forums: Young Adult: ur doing it wrong! One person explains how writing YA characters with super-powers sabotages the aspirations of the youth. The best thing about this post is all the young YA authors piling on him and saying "I'll write what I wanna write! I'll write the most super-duper character ever, with silver eyes and an extra magic wand and apocalyptic mind powers and what's more, I'll like it!" That's the spirit of NaNoWriMo: I'll write what I wanna write.