A Twist of Things to Come

Just trying to keep all my balls in the air! That sounds naughtier than it is, sadly.

So here goes!

Nightsky shared a Clip from "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer"! which we loved to bits.

Then we had a great review by Sweet Clementine, The Expendables: Explosions? Yes, please!. Mea culpa for the delay in getting it up on GC. My life is a tad... interesting at the moment.

And today we have Mv2.3's The Dow of Mouseloaf, which I confess I did not really understand at all.

But life is like that sometimes.

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I finished the basic, 'Tetris' edit of what I had of the novel yesterday, so today is all new ground. I'll let you know how that goes.

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Last night I went to a book club called New Orleans Books and Booze at the Columns hotel. They had read the book Babylon Rolling and the author, Amanda Boyden came by and was grilled by uninhibited bibliophiles for more than an hour. It was an *awesome* thing to behold, and she held up pretty well, probably because they bought her drinks. ;)

It was funny because, not only had her editor made her dial back the annoying, transliterated patois of her African American teen drug dealer ( TWICE, so I can only imagine that his POV sections had to be unintelligible as she first wrote them) but they also demanded she use an English title, instead of the French one she wanted to use. I think both were good calls, saving her from her own pretentiousness (and probably some cries of racism). I still don't get why she wrote that one character in such a marked patois when it was written in third person. First person, I would get, but third? Aaaanyway.

I did like that the title was a reference that New Orleansians would get. Babylon is the Mardi Gras parade that runs just before Chaos. Since it is set just before Katrina, it's an oblique reference that chaos was not far behind. Clever.

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Big Boy seems to be handling school well, which is the best I could hope for. I guess we'll see what happens as time passes.

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We went over the weekend to do some clothes shopping. It was lovely. Big Boy shows all the signs of growing out of everything before Christmas.

I had to take him to see his endocrinologist, who was impressed by his size. He's as tall as his doctors, or taller, now, and above 99th percentile for height for his age (and 90th percentile for weight, the string bean). Have to take him for blood work next month.

Basically, between running around doing errands, various meetings and appointments and generally meeting my obligations, I have had little time for anything else. I have tried to keep up with you guys and see how you are doing.

Maybe things will settle in soon.