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[elfs]

So, anyway, I haven't been personal-blogging much, but then afer last weekend I've kinda been running on autopilot. Finished Kushiel's Chosen, the second of the Kushiel series, and I enjoyed it much more than the first book; it really seems that Ms. Carey got her feet underneath her and wrote a rip-roaring good adventure story, and if the coincidences seem unlikely we're meant to believe that we're watching a battle between competing gods with our heroine and her unmerry band as pawns-- they know they're pawns, but they don't know the game.

I saw the saddest thing the other day. Omaha and I were too tired to cook after the weekend, so Tuesday evening we ordered take-out, and on the way to the restaurant I saw that some poor schmuck had overturned his ice-cream truck. It was a little thing, an extended authentic jeep, 1950s vintage and a beat-up dark green, the kind where the guy can only reach over his shoulder for the coolers in the back, and he had rolled it onto its side while attempting to take a corner onto a hill at high speed. He was sitting there, on the ground, knees drawn to his chest and his head in his hands. A cop stood above him, shaking his head sadly.

Yesterday, I ran into Cadaver Girl (I really have to stop calling her that; I see her two to three times a week on the bus, she's really friendly and very pretty, but I don't know her name and she works in a morgue, so...) and she mentioned that I looked tired. I mentioned that I hadn't recovered from the weekend and she agreed that she hadn't either. She didn't think she would until next weekend.

I haven't been writing much. Dunno why. Although I've been doing it steadily, I don't feel like I'm making progress. Part of it's just that I'm a bit on automatic, and a bit out of my depth with the vampire stories. Not my forte' at all. But I'm determined to finish them. Plumbing for the brain and all that.

Kouryou-chan has proven to be a poor source of dialogue for children. I was trying to get her into bed the other night, and she was ignoring me. So I poked her. She ignored me. I poked her again. She ignored me. I poked her again and said, "Is that annoying?"

She said, "If you continue poking me, it will become annoying." What five-year-old talks like that?

But she went to a friend's birthday party last night and had a good time. It was at the Chuck E Cheese place over in Kent, and she learned to appreciate Whack-A-Mole. Good times.

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[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[alice-in-texas.livejournal.com]

I will be curious to see if my grandson speaks like that at age 5. He is 2 years, 8 months, and his speech is more advanced that his father's, my son, was at that age. He's very verbal and speaks both Russian and English quite well. I attribute his language skills with having my son and daughter-in-law reading to him daily and engaging him in conversation often plus limiting his television and video time to less than 2 hours a day - even less or none, if they can get away with it. I often taken back when I am with him because of the things that he will say. Kids are amazing. You never know what they will come out with.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

What five-year-old talks like that?

Yours does. Very precocious. Best to start running now; you'll never stay ahead of her if you don't.

[bldrnrpdx.livejournal.com]

"Kouryou-chan has proven to be a poor source of dialogue for children. I was trying to get her into bed the other night, and she was ignoring me. So I poked her. She ignored me. I poked her again. She ignored me. I poked her again and said, "Is that annoying?"

She said, "If you continue poking me, it will become annoying." What five-year-old talks like that?"


I have a couple of kids at work (3-5 y/o) who either do talk kinda like that or are clearly on their way to talking like that.

Kushiel

[angelpdx.livejournal.com]

I read the series. I enjoyed them, but the magik stuff started getting in the way of the kinky stuff for me. I preferred the first one.

[blackcoat.livejournal.com]

Her newest book (Banewreaker) is just unreal. No sex, but some of the best writing I've ever read. Makes me wish I had a small portion of the talent that she does. Plot hooks, characters with *beliveable* reactions to life, and to living for incredible amounts of time...just, you know...wonderful.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

That's even better than when Erin got out of bed to turn the light off and said that she didn't need it because she was nocturnal.