News from the Neighborhood
Friday, May 27th, 2005 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniIt seems that the alpacas have taken on another Hand -- a white rabbit about the size of Mozart. This will bring Staff up to seven, I believe: four mallard ducks, white rabbit, dog, and Liz.
Our authors' copies of Absolute Magnitude #21 arrived! Yay!
While I was in town this morning, one of the street people couldn't rest until she had shown me the pair of Perfectly Good Shoes that were in the wastebin at the corner of Temple Street. They were, she said, too big for her, but hardly worn at all. I agreed that people throw out the strangest things, but pointed out that I hardly needed high-heeled sandals. She allowed as how that was very true, and carefully put the shoes back into the bin, making sure they stayed together.
The pharmacy had to call the insurance company to get a "vacation override" so they could fill the prescription that will run out while we're in New York. Before they did that, though, they recommended that I just take the prescription with me and get it filled there. Um, no. Yes, I'm sure there are lots of pharmacies in New York City, but I don't see why I should be put to the inconvenience of seeking one out when I have a perfectly reputable pharmacy that I deal with all the time in town, which has a valid prescription on file and can fill the dern thing now. Insert "The Insurance Company Doesn't Pay For My Drugs So Why Should I Play By Their Stupid Rules" here. This took more time than I wanted, but actually worked out well for the gym, which has been getting crowded again, as the Summer People trickle back up to Maine for the season.
Only Nick the Assistant Manager was on at the video store when I stopped there -- and he was outside hanging up a banner advertising the availability of "Aviator." I coulda walked off with half the store by the time he realized I was in there. On deck for the weekend, "Chocolat" and "A Midsummer's Night Dream."
Also, the New York Times movie reviewer hated "Empire Falls." Now, I don't dispute this: "Empire Falls" sounds like the sort of movie I wouldn't particularly like, myself. But one of the points that she makes -- IMHO unfairly -- is that the voice-over for some of the sections has a "Pepperidge Fahm" accent, which she finds just too Too. Well, OK, but -- that's really what an Old New Englander accent sounds like. It's dying out, thanks to television, but in the context of the time in which the movie is supposing to be taking place, the accent is not inappropriate.
So, there.
The house has been vacuumed, the bread is baking, the dishes are done, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kinzel's home with the pizza.
I'm gone.
Our authors' copies of Absolute Magnitude #21 arrived! Yay!
While I was in town this morning, one of the street people couldn't rest until she had shown me the pair of Perfectly Good Shoes that were in the wastebin at the corner of Temple Street. They were, she said, too big for her, but hardly worn at all. I agreed that people throw out the strangest things, but pointed out that I hardly needed high-heeled sandals. She allowed as how that was very true, and carefully put the shoes back into the bin, making sure they stayed together.
The pharmacy had to call the insurance company to get a "vacation override" so they could fill the prescription that will run out while we're in New York. Before they did that, though, they recommended that I just take the prescription with me and get it filled there. Um, no. Yes, I'm sure there are lots of pharmacies in New York City, but I don't see why I should be put to the inconvenience of seeking one out when I have a perfectly reputable pharmacy that I deal with all the time in town, which has a valid prescription on file and can fill the dern thing now. Insert "The Insurance Company Doesn't Pay For My Drugs So Why Should I Play By Their Stupid Rules" here. This took more time than I wanted, but actually worked out well for the gym, which has been getting crowded again, as the Summer People trickle back up to Maine for the season.
Only Nick the Assistant Manager was on at the video store when I stopped there -- and he was outside hanging up a banner advertising the availability of "Aviator." I coulda walked off with half the store by the time he realized I was in there. On deck for the weekend, "Chocolat" and "A Midsummer's Night Dream."
Also, the New York Times movie reviewer hated "Empire Falls." Now, I don't dispute this: "Empire Falls" sounds like the sort of movie I wouldn't particularly like, myself. But one of the points that she makes -- IMHO unfairly -- is that the voice-over for some of the sections has a "Pepperidge Fahm" accent, which she finds just too Too. Well, OK, but -- that's really what an Old New Englander accent sounds like. It's dying out, thanks to television, but in the context of the time in which the movie is supposing to be taking place, the accent is not inappropriate.
So, there.
The house has been vacuumed, the bread is baking, the dishes are done, and
kinzel's home with the pizza.I'm gone.
