Jasper's records got broken as he was escaping from the asylum

[pjthompson]

As illustrated by Edward Gorey in The Blue Aspic.

I know how Jasper feels. My friend and I packed around 40 boxes yesterday, got the worst of it done. There are more horrors to explore, but not the gargantuan horrors of before. I begin to feel less panic.

My repulsion is not much reduced. When I pulled some of the records (yes, I still own some vinyl, retro chick that I am) from their snug hidey hole between the large bookcases I found...creeping horror. I think the records are still okay, but the covers are going to need to be de-mildewed. Can't quite figure out how that happened, as the other small group of records six feet away are just fine.

Maybe the semi-annual flooding of the kitchen? The first batch was closer to the sink, but not close (20 feet?), and the water never seeped that far. I suspect there are all kinds of ickiness lurking in that apartment beneath that carpet. Best not to think about that too much. (TMI, right?) I'm lucky to be leaving.

Truly, I'm at that point. This is a good thing.

To reinforce my loathing of the building, the elevator broke this weekend. Anything that I wanted to move to the car to move to the new place had to be carried up and down the stairs. Needless to say, I didn't move any boxes. My apartment is flush to the gunwales with them now. I have to walk sideways through little burrows carved out in the living room. No earthquakes, please. At least until the big burly moving men come and carry all these boxes away for me.

One good thing: I gathered up all the loose change and quarters hoarded for laundry and put them into wrappers: $52. Hooya. Maybe I can afford the membership for Worldcon after all.

Sigh of the day: One crit on chapter 23 of Night Warrior so far. I got a "1" on characterization because the critter (jumping in at chapter 23 cold) thinks men born in the British Isles would not be able to express their feelings like my main character does and found Caius unlikable and unbelievable. Can't please everyone.

Oy of the day: We just had another fire drill. This time with fire engines. A real Halloween trick. But they gave the all clear after about a half hour, so I guess it wasn't as bad as we feared.

Comments

[everyonesakitty.livejournal.com]

Oh, geezers. Characterization is what you're especially good at, dude. Caius is brilliantly drawn because I see how he was as a young person and how he becomes the old soul in later years. He's the clearest character evah. In my opinion, you can ignore that reviewer. *miffed*

Glad the packing's almost done and that you're nearly out of that building...

[pjthompson]

Thanks, dude. :-)

It's hard to take such a sweeping generalization seriously. The critter made a few good points, actually, but that statement struck me as rather clueless.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

A one in characterization? For your writing? I think that translates to "Just ignore this entire critique."

[pjthompson]

Thanks to you, too, dude. I'm in the process of ignoring it even as we type. As I said to kitty, he made some good points, but the "1" kind of mitigated against me taking him seriously.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Oh darn! That means that passionate Brit I once knew was only faking that accent. *disillusioned*

[pjthompson]

Yeah, and that Brit I knew who used to sniffle at sad movies was probably just faking it, too. ;-)

[jasperh.livejournal.com]

He gave you a 1? Is this guy capable of comprehension beyond grade two? If a person doesn't understand what is going on and can't connect with the story for whatever reason then that person shouldn't be critting it. Ignore the retard. Caius ROCKS. And I have read the next chapter. I have to leave a gap between critting it or I can't get out of reader mode.

[pjthompson]

Lol--thank you, Lizbet.

[jasperh.livejournal.com]

Oh for heaven's sake. Go check out the website of this guy. He's a kid into RPG. And the dude is from Ohio, which gives him the knowledge to state an opinion of British men ... why???? Far too much time spent watching really old B/W Brit movies when everyone, including U.S actors came over as stiffs.

Was I the only one who watched Princess Di's funeral? I saw a slew of guys crying. Now perhaps he'd like to yank the other leg, the one with the bell on it.

[pjthompson]

Yeah, there is that. Of course, he's got that click through to the law firm and one of the lawyers has the same name and is forty-something--so I don't know if that's his dad's firm or his.

But it is a fairly silly sweeping generalization about Brit men. Maybe he was referring to Brit military men? It is, after all, a man's life in the British army... ;-)