Unless soul clap hands and sing, and louder sing

[desperance]

I am a paltry thing tonight: all day, indeed, I have been paltry. Having dispensed with proofs at last, I ought to be entirely getting back to work today, but I am almost entirely not. A line or two in this, a line or two in that: I got nuthin'. I's broke.

I may be broke. We'll see. I have wine, I have nibbles; dinner is more or less cooked, so there's nothing to do for two hours but be here. If I can work, I shall work. If not, I'll read: Louis Macneice and Catherine the Great, since you ask. At least we can call that work.

Meanwhile, Barry has climbed to the highest point in his landscape - atop a box atop a bookcase, well out of my reach - and is tearing wallpaper from the uttermost corner, because he is Evil. Or attention-seeking, or registering a protest. Who knows?

A solitary Chinese woman does tai-chi in the park opposite my window. When she's done, she puts on a red bobble-hat and her glasses, and then she just sits on the bench there. For an hour, on her own, in (today) the biting cold. Maybe she does mental tai-chi? She fascinates me. And no, I am not going to go and talk to her.

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It must be something in the atmosphere, as here there has been tax sorting and laundry and tracking down of vital earring components, but of the writing there the none.
Wall paper, of course, exists to be scratched. Or so both Caspian and Horus have told us.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the scratchings; that amuses me (and the places they choose to scratch are the Old Wallpaper That Chaz Did Not Put Up, which makes a difference also). The tearing-wholesale-from-the-wall, though, is a slightly different matter. It's embarrassing in the bedroom, where guests must sleep next to it; and in here it's just infuriating, for this is the Nice Wallpaper That Chaz Did Himself Put Up, and grrr...

Also, laundry. Why didn't I think of that? I could've done laundry...

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Or attention-seeking, or registering a protest. Who knows?

Or after a bug.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

A solitary Chinese woman

I apologise for initially reading that as 'A sultry Chinese woman'. It was obviously slightly too interesting, though I would defy any woman to be sultry and wear a bobble hat.