The Twelve Colonies and the Duke of Astibar

[fajrdrako]

Today I revisited favourite things. In the morning, it was a book: I was rereading Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. It was the first of his books that I read - in fact, I heard some of it first when he did a reading at Ad Astra shortly before (or after) it was published. It remains one of my favourite books, but I haven't read it in a long time.

Just long enough to forget details, and rediscover them delightfully.

A lot of the day was spent with fairly mundane things - it was a beautiful day, and I went for a walk to buy groceries at a distant grocery store, and to buy comics at the Silver Snail. The comics I got were:

1. Iron Man #3 by Warren Ellis
2. Nightwing #3 by Devin Grayson
3. Gotham Central #30 by Greg Rucka
(Yay! One of my very favourites!)
4. Conan and the Jewels of Gwahlur #1 because it has P. Craig Russell art. I always love his work.

This evening, I watched 3/4 of the pilot of the new Battlestar Galactica with maaboroshi, josanpq, laitosto and meri_oddities. It held our attention as much this time around as before - sometimes being able to anticipate what's coming up makes the suspense even worse. It was particularly interesting to see Helo with Galactica's Boomer, or to watch again the explosion on Caprica when Number Six seemed to have protected Baltar from the blast. When Helo gave his seat on the rescue ship to Baltar I wanted to scream at him, "No! Don't do it!"

Comments

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

For shame!

I think I may fall in love with you if we ever met, lol. A woman after my own, ambitious heart! :-P God speed, even if we kill ourselves trying.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

And we may just do that, but it would be in a fine Lymondesque fashion!

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Random, verging upon flaming you: do you know French? lol. *hides*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Bien sur, une belle langue.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

*jealous* again. Am attempting to find the proper translation for a phrase (I remember some, but my grammar is shot to hell).

"Is this what Maria meant by being great?"

I just can't figure it out. Any ideas? Do I need to pay you? *giggle*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

"Is this what Maria meant by being great?"

Hmm, a challenge. I could ask my friends who really speak French well - that's always my default. Or I could try. Hmm... "Est-ce que c'est ca que Maria veut dire quand elle parlait des grands?" Not quite the same, and probably mangled... let me think about it a little more.

Pay me in moral support with my writing!

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Thanks darling, now we something else to stress over! ;)

I think you're close. I figured the est-ce que part, and some of the descriptions, but all the in betweens, *sigh and swoon*. :)

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

"Thanks darling, now we something else to stress over! ;)"

Including my inability to type! 'now we HAVE something else to stress over.'

LJ needs to have an 'edit comment' option, for we poor perfectionists.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

LJ needs to have an 'edit comment' option

So true! Many's the time I've wanted to call back a comment half a second after I've posted it.