Right now, I agree with Bobby's version....*

I'm in a thoroughly evil mood. I'm sad and overly sensitive, and if I need hand-holding, it's to keep me from slapping people who make light of my feelings or contradict me in any way. Right now, I'm not logical, I'm not entirely sure I'm sane---I went to WalMart Friday evening and was hallucinating Kat everywhere---and it takes very little to set me off.

I'm also recuperating from my annual case of tonsilitis. Usually that's accompanied by a full-on head cold and respiratory congestion, but this time it was 95% tonsils. I've slept about 16 of the last 48 hours, which I guess I needed, and I still feel like crap.

GK arrives tomorrow (en famile), will be in a hotel, as hubby's job pays for it, at least the first few days when he'll be working. There's supposedly a hot tub on the premises, which would be divine if the weather would warm up. (She was saying on the phone that she checked the local Florida temps on line, and that we're as cold as she is in Massachusetts!)

And IMO FWIW, Valentine's Day SUCKS.

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* And if you don't know what I'm talking about, the answer is in "An Answer to Prayer", which I posted a couple days ago. And it's being ignored. I'm getting more response from the Pit of Voles, which doesn't lighten my mood any.

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Right now, I agree with Bobby's version....*

I'm in a thoroughly evil mood. I'm sad and overly sensitive, and if I need hand-holding, it's to keep me from slapping people who make light of my feelings or contradict me in any way. Right now, I'm not logical, I'm not entirely sure I'm sane---I went to WalMart Friday evening and was hallucinating Kat everywhere---and it takes very little to set me off.

I'm also recuperating from my annual case of tonsilitis. Usually that's accompanied by a full-on head cold and respiratory congestion, but this time it was 95% tonsils. I've slept about 16 of the last 48 hours, which I guess I needed, and I still feel like crap.

GK arrives tomorrow (en famile), will be in a hotel, as hubby's job pays for it, at least the first few days when he'll be working. There's supposedly a hot tub on the premises, which would be divine if the weather would warm up. (She was saying on the phone that she checked the local Florida temps on line, and that we're as cold as she is in Massachusetts!)

And IMO FWIW, Valentine's Day SUCKS.

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* And if you don't know what I'm talking about, the answer is in "An Answer to Prayer", which I posted a couple days ago. And it's being ignored. I'm getting more response from the Pit of Voles, which doesn't lighten my mood any.

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In Memoriam -- Dick Francis

Dick Francis
1920-2010


Oh dear. The passing of Dick Francis makes the second of my well-loved writers to die this year. This distresses me; I'm already living in terror of Anne McCaffrey's eventual demise, ditto Stuart Woods. (As well as a few non-writers: Peter O'Toole looks rather frail these days, and Kirk Douglas is a shadow of his once-robust self.)

As a horse-mad kid, I read the condensed version of "Enquiry" in one of the women's mags (remember when 'zines used to have *gasp* monthly fiction?!), I acquired the rest over the years, and just in the last couple weeks revisited "To the Hilt" and "Hot Money". What with the Canadian Olympics, I was thinking of perusing "The Edge" again. (Not "Trial Run". Too Cold War and dated.)

I haven't read any of the "and Felix" books after "Executive Orders", which I thought was subpar, but all of the others, yes. I even have a couple signed volumes, courtesy of my dearly departed brother Peter.

I'll bet that Peter, who was also quite a fan, has given him a hearty welcome on the far side of the Pearly Gates....

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In Memoriam -- Dick Francis

Dick Francis
1920-2010


Oh dear. The passing of Dick Francis makes the second of my well-loved writers to die this year. This distresses me; I'm already living in terror of Anne McCaffrey's eventual demise, ditto Stuart Woods. (As well as a few non-writers: Peter O'Toole looks rather frail these days, and Kirk Douglas is a shadow of his once-robust self.)

As a horse-mad kid, I read the condensed version of "Enquiry" in one of the women's mags (remember when 'zines used to have *gasp* monthly fiction?!), I acquired the rest over the years, and just in the last couple weeks revisited "To the Hilt" and "Hot Money". What with the Canadian Olympics, I was thinking of perusing "The Edge" again. (Not "Trial Run". Too Cold War and dated.)

I haven't read any of the "and Felix" books after "Executive Orders", which I thought was subpar, but all of the others, yes. I even have a couple signed volumes, courtesy of my dearly departed brother Peter.

I'll bet that Peter, who was also quite a fan, has given him a hearty welcome on the far side of the Pearly Gates....

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