potpourri

[ewein2412]

1) Gramma

I didn't post about Gramma's progress for a while she wasn't making any and it was very discouraging. After what seemed like a phenomenal recovery, 6 weeks after her injury and with her pelvis mostly healed, she suddenly found herself stricken with debilitating and inexplicable pain on the other side of her body. We thought it might be sciatica. After an MRI scan, turns out she actually had two other breaks that the initial x-rays hadn't picked up, one in her hip and one in her tailbone (?) or thereabouts--so they confined her to the walker/zimmer frame and wheelchair for another 6 weeks. She improved very rapidly (again) after that, and 3 weeks later was back to saying, "I'm fine, but they're still making me use this stupid walker." (Apparently, at her last check-up with her GP, she asked permission to start driving again, and the GP accused her of coercion--that's the specialist's department!)

As far as I know she spent last weekend in Richmond with my aunt (her youngest daughter, Kate) and Kate's daughters. Her first big trip since her accident, and it is a big trip, a 5 hour drive. I will have to have a long transatlantic gossip with her soon.

2) Moonwalk Reminder

Me and my team the "Fair City Fillies" are supposed to be in training for the Moonwalk, a sponsored walk to raise money to support breast cancer projects within Scotland. The freaks that I hang out with consider that appropriate "training" for a 13 mile power walk is to go on a 14 mile hillwalk over rough terrain AT THE SAME PACE as the power walk; i.e., if you don't pass out or end up in the hospital with tendonitis you'll be fine for the half-marathon, which will be considerably less difficult than your training. So anyway, I have been training. I will just about recover in time to do the actual half-marathon; donations always gratefully appreciated here , and many thanks to those of you who have made donations in the past. I will keep you posted when the big day arrives!

Everyone's feet hurt last week. Tim has a mysterious infection in his right foot which was so swollen I finally managed to make him go to the doctor, and antibiotics seem to be improving it. Unbelievably, the day before he went, the CAT turned up limping pathetically on 3 legs with a big fat swollen paw, and SHE had to go get antibiotics as well (or whatever it is they give cats). Tim took her; apparently he asked the vet if he could get a shot in his foot, too.

Tim's ridiculous attempt to explain the strange foot maladies going around:

"Your feet are the bellwether of your soul."

3) Perth, the cultural haven at the end of the motorway system

We went to see the Waterboys at the Perth Concert Hall last night. They were fantastic--I didn't actually expect to enjoy the concert as much as I did. I am not real familiar with their recent stuff and had never heard the "Peace of Iona" song or their marvellous setting of Yeats's "The Stolen Child" (painfully topical, too). And--

ONE MAN STAR WARS TRILOGY IS COMING TO EDINBURGH!!!! WE HAVE TICKETS!!!

I love Scotland.

4) Navel Gazing

As far as I am aware The Lion Hunter is on schedule for its 14 June 2007 debut. I know that there are at least two people on my friendslist who claim to be more excited about this book than about HP7 (marguerlucy said I could quote her on that, so I am). Your reward is…

Somewhere, someone in the dim and distant Internet past (and they probably don't even read this blog) expressed a whimsical desire for a Medraut/Turunesh fanfic. I don't know if it counts as fanfic if the author of the fandom writes it herself, but I have produced a drabble. A DRABBLE! Moi! I wrote it a while ago and was too embarrassed to post it. But what the heck. It is here and here at rarelitslash. madwoman.

Comments

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

AAAH!!! and i was talking about discovering "Sunbird" at the time!!! i'm so beyond stoked, that i'm actually using the word "stoked"!

;)

and thank you for the drabble!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Good for your gramma!

and what's the problem with a drabble or two, writing is writing! *g*

[cc-lemon.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to "The Lion Hunter" FAR more than I am the final HP book, and I consider myself a great fan of that series. Your books are infinitely more satisfying on every level and I'm completely in love with the entire set of characters and the universe you've created for them to dwell in. I'm going nuts waiting for the new book!

The drabble was wonderful, but it doesn't excuse you from providing us with a full novel of Medraut and Turunesh. They're both so fascinating and their story should be shared.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

One Man Star Wars is coming back?!?! YAY! I missed it at the Fringe last year and was very sad as it sounded fabulous!

Hurrah for The Lion Hunter!

[mhari.livejournal.com]

are you kidding? I'd take Telemakos over Harry any day. >_>

And oh, oh, oh squee. I love them so much. Poor Turunesh, what she puts up with from these crazy Britons. *g*

Also, your grandmother sounds awesome.

Fanfic?

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I think it's technically pixel-stained technopeasantry.

[sovay]

As far as I am aware The Lion Hunter is on schedule for its 14 June 2007 debut.

*preorders*

but I have produced a drabble. A DRABBLE! Moi! I wrote it a while ago and was too embarrassed to post it. But what the heck.

It is a wonderful drabble!

[sparrow-wings.livejournal.com]

As far as I am aware The Lion Hunter is on schedule for its 14 June 2007

Eeeeeeeee! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! There are a lot of books I'm eagerly awaiting this summer, but this just jumped to the top of the list. *bounces*

[tigertrapped.livejournal.com]

Your grandmother continues to astound me. I hope she continues to thrive.

Loved the drabble, especially:

He held up his white hand. She folded her dark fingers close around it; their hands entwined, light and shadow in perfect balance.

Ah, hand!porn. Can't go wrong with it. *g*

[meener.livejournal.com]

i am another person who is infinitely more excited about the lion hunter than anything HP-related. please excuse me while i use caps and exclamation marks (wow, i just wrote "books" there without thinking) for a moment: NEW BOOK BY YOU!!!!! EEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! *dances*

though now i am faced with a dilemma: do i ship the book to japan (instant gratification vs. yet ANOTHER book to lug back with me when i leave in july), or do i ship it to the states (extra months of waiting vs. something to add to the list of good things about going back)? D:

i love your drabble, btw! i remember a professor remarking once that a novel gives you more "elbow-room" than a short story; drabbles seem to be on the very far end of the spectrum, a novel stripped of everything but a sharp, brief clarity - like the last few lines in a sonnet, as you mentioned in a comment. i think the best drabbles can produce the same kind of delight and satisfaction a well-placed volta can - and yours did that for me.

[hirnverbrannt.livejournal.com]

Yay! Go Gram! Stupid doctors.

Don't die training. But if you do, leave me something pretty like a pair of bookends or... I don't know. A dinner plate.

Every time I put down a Harry Potter book I am not left thinking "I learned much of history!" Thank you for writing with your brain.

[resoundingjoy.livejournal.com]

I'm reading all this excitement about "The Lion Hunter," and was getting all caught up in the excitement of the upcoming release when I realized that I already have it (yay ebay for selling proofs) and that I have to wait still longer for the sequel! Gah!!!