a word after a word after a word is power

[lunabee34]

1. Campus closed at noon today and is closed tomorrow because of the storm. I'm crossing my fingers that we don't lose power and looking forward to a long weekend.

2. Josh's endoscopy is scheduled for 6:30 Friday at a facility an hour away, and we really should be there a little before the appt. time. OMG, we will be getting up so early.

3. My Yuletide letter got linked to meme and received almost no attention except for one person who pointed out with dismay that one of my prompts for Haunting of Hill House is straight up Scooby Doo. I had not been thinking about that prompt in those terms, but it totally is Scooby Doo. Luke is haunting up the place because he is interested in inheriting after all. Dr. Montague *really* wants tenure and can only get it if his paranormal theories gain credence. Mrs. Montague will show her husband a ghost if she has to manufacture one herself, by gum. Yep. Totally Scooby Doo. I will own it. LOL

4. Uhura's Song and We Have Always Lived in the Castle have arrived. Whooooooooo! Man, I love Janet Kagan.

Comments

[cathexys]

hugs! just sent you a shout out, bc every time I look at the radar I'm thinking of you!!!

[chelseagirl]

Your Yuletide letter got linked to meme? I have no idea what that means. People might look at my letter and make fun of it?

[independence1776]

I hope Josh's endoscopy goes well!

[kore]

Yeah, for some reason medical procedures require the procedure-ee to get up at the crack of whatever, like doctors are all fucking robins, I don't even know.

I had not been thinking about that prompt in those terms, but it totally is Scooby Doo. Luke is haunting up the place because he is interested in inheriting after all. Dr. Montague *really* wants tenure and can only get it if his paranormal theories gain credence. Mrs. Montague will show her husband a ghost if she has to manufacture one herself, by gum. Yep. Totally Scooby Doo. I will own it. LOL

THAT IS AWESOME. Didn't Jackson say in her lecture on the book that when she read one of the original sources, she found it wasn't so much about people who saw ghosts as much as they desperately wanted to see ghosts?

Mrs Montague thunderclapping onto the scene and completely being unaware of the goings-on (except for the writing, YEEK) is so great. I can just imagine her and Mrs Dudley in cahoots somehow.

Also, not to put on my English Major stompyboots which don't even fit anymore, but Hill House is also so obviously partly based on Turn of the Screw, with its wildly romantic isolated lovesick alienated completely unreliable narrator. I think a big part of Jackson's aesthetics isn't so much "is it true there are ghosts OR Eleanor is mad," she's balancing right there on the edge with MAYBE AND. Her work is so grounded in reality but it's also about such surreal things.

[zulu]

Best of luck through the storm (and the early rising!).

[rahirah]

Hope the storm passes you by safely!

[timespirt]

"HUGS"

Stay safe hon and good vibes for your hubby and his procedure.

[archersangel]

about #2; hope things go well.

my dad had to get up early for a certain procedure & they wanted him there at 5:30. yes a.m. but then after they got him checked in, changed int the gown & stuff he had to sit around and wait until like 8:00 or 8:30. it was such BS!

icon is about how angry i was that last situation.

[spikedluv]

Good luck getting through the storm safely, and with Josh' endoscopy. *hugs*

[monanotlisa]

What does "linked to meme" mean?

Shit, I really need to sign up for Yuletide. And drum up support for PoE...

[lyr]

Good luck with the storm, and also Josh's endoscopy.

Also, Uhura's Song shout out! I love that book. When I think about positive examples of authorial inserts, I think of that one first.

[ariadne83]

Ooh have you seen the Netflix series of The Haunting of Hill House? I enjoyed it a lot (even if it feels more like Amityville than Hill House).