Gimme that ol’ time punctuation
Thursday, October 20th, 2011 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniI write this morning to bring you news of a philanthropic sheep, a sheep of heart, and of means. Looking at him, (which you may do here) you might not think he’s such a much. You’d be wrong.
From the catalog: This cuddly felted wool sheep will warm up your tree and employ women in Kathmandu.
Mind you, I don’t know what the sheep’s business interests are, in Kathmandu, or what the connection between a warm tree and employing women is, precisely. But it seems worthy work. Worthy work, for which the sheep ought rightly to be commended.
Comma wars apart, do take time to look around the SERRV site. The paper catalog, which arrived at the Cat Farm yesterday, has lots of yummy stuff in it.
Yesterday, Steve had a doctor’s appointment. The doctor’s office being affiliated with the hospital that’s staying in town (as distinct from the hospital that’s leaving town), it has acquired — a television set. That’s right, a television set. And there’s no way to get away from the derned thing. I’m completely baffled by the ubiquity of television sets, especially in doctor’s offices, where people are already feeling unwell or anxious*, but the receptionist said that it was now “policy” that the television had to be both present, and on.
Gah.
Doctor visit done, we to the post office to close SRM’s box and open one for us. There’s a forwarding order on the old box (which is one short hall away from the new box), so anything in the system to SRM or to us at PO Box 707 should arrive just fine. In future, however, our address is:
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
PO Box 1586
Waterville ME 04903
Splinter Universe mail should also go to the new address.
After that important piece of bidness was taken care of, we were off to Home Despot, and to Maroons, and then home, by way of Arby’s for lunch, and Hannaford, for groceries.
This morning, bread is on the rise. I have some business correspondence to deal with and a trip to town to accomplish an errand that inconveniently could not be dealt with yesterday.
The weatherbeans are calling for rain — and rain has answered their call.
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*I was once trapped in a hospital waiting room where the television had been tuned to a “nature” channel. Nothing wrong with that, right?
Ahem.
The segment I was treated to involved interviews with people who had witnessed and/or survived attacks by bears.
You try reading your book, while your back is to the television set, from which are clearly audible the sobs of the groom who had witnessed his bride savaged and consumed.
Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2011-10-20 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-10-20 02:55 pm (UTC)Er, where exactly would you put a comma in that sentence in order to clarify it? Wherever I put one it still reads as something strange. I think it needs extra words, or fewer words, or something else drastic (I feel that having a sheep "warm up my tree" is itself rather kinky, and could possibly be breaking some law).
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Date: 2011-10-20 02:58 pm (UTC)But, you're right; what it really needs is a rewrite.
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Date: 2011-10-20 03:08 pm (UTC)I, however, want to smash it with a stick after awhile.
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Date: 2011-10-20 03:31 pm (UTC)OK, I'm doomed.
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Date: 2011-10-20 03:34 pm (UTC)enableshare with you one of my own favorite sites. Enjoy! :-)no subject
Date: 2011-10-20 03:49 pm (UTC)Of TVs and Hospitals
Date: 2011-10-20 04:18 pm (UTC)Re: Of TVs and Hospitals
Date: 2011-10-20 10:31 pm (UTC)Re: Of TVs and Hospitals
Date: 2011-10-20 11:01 pm (UTC)Now, I'm sorry -- what's TLC and "Say Yes to the Dress"?
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Date: 2011-10-21 02:14 am (UTC)Yah.
"Say yes to the dress" is, ghod help us, all about following brides (and bridezillas) to be as they pick out a wedding dress.
6 hours straight of this? I would have been screaming after the first 30 minutes.
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Date: 2011-10-20 05:37 pm (UTC)Lorna
C.A.R.E.
Date: 2011-10-20 06:33 pm (UTC)Spud is very depressed about the tiger slaughter in Ohio right now.
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Date: 2011-10-20 10:33 pm (UTC)Re: C.A.R.E.
Date: 2011-10-20 11:02 pm (UTC)TVs in strange places
Date: 2011-10-20 07:41 pm (UTC)yep, my hair is short enough the barbers don't blink at being
asked to cut it - they had a big TV turned to Maryland Public
Television. At the time I was there, they were running British
sitcoms.
Odd choice, I thought, for a barber shop.
But I like them so WTH.
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks
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Date: 2011-10-21 03:34 pm (UTC)My current dentist has a flat screen above the receptionist. There is no noise. It shows travel videos, including one of Ireland. It is eminently ignorable if I have my kindle, or soothing if I don't.
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Date: 2011-10-22 07:49 am (UTC)I don't mind those in the airports with the special CNN channel. they are usually not too loud so one can read instead.
C.