in which I write about stuff
ken kesey dies. so I don’t know how I feel about that. I sort of associate him with what turned out to be a godawful day…and I found his speech at the graduation to be rather tiresome as well — f—ing hippies. but one hates to speak ill of the dead.
speaking of which, why is that when I get a cold, Chad’s body tries its darndest to go all the way to bronchitis?
in other words, should the 2 women be a type that Aila notices throughout her travels? (I feel a kinship between them, myself.) or is it better for them to be more distinct? I don’t really know what I want here. do I want to emphasize the similarities in all these cultures? if so, should there be a figure like Maya & Radla in Tanu? or is that too much?
ugh. now I’m getting away from the storytelling and overthinking the damn thing. and I just don’t have enough brain cells for that right now!
“Maya Xersu took a long drink from the cup on her desk, then sighed. The easel on her desk glowed faintly, the brightest spots following the stylus in her left hand. Then, with her right hand, she wiped a portion of screen into darkness, before setting down the stylus and squeezing the back of her neck with her hands.
but I’m a little happier now, and I finally put up an “about” page, along with the latest version of my timeline.
I’m looking at a Virginia quarter, sitting on my desk, and noticed that it has the date of the founding of Jamestown: 1607. and I was thinking that the “new world” was discovered by europeans in 1492, which means that over 100 years passed between the two. which somehow makes me a little more hopeful for space colonization. (please don’t ask me to connect the dots on that thought. and yes, I know that the Spanish were colonizing in that whole time period.)
(and can I just say that the treasury & mint both have really crappy web sites? I found the treasury’s site right off at google, but I couldn’t find anything about on the front page that would give me any indication where I’d find info about the making of money. I happened to go to the site map, and noticed Mint, US – Edith’s days collecting pennies came in handy in remember that ‘oh, that’s where they make coins.’ when I went to the mint’s site, I clicked on the catalog from a big flash ad on the front page, but that just took me to goojers made with quarters. I had to go to the bottom of the page to find a link back to the main home page (as opposed to the catalog home page), then look around through about the mint to find the link included above. bleh!)