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[lunabee34]

1. MeeMaw appears to be okay. She didn't have any cognitive or physical impairments from those episodes she had after coming home from the hospital, so my mom (a nurse) thinks her blood pressure just tanked rather than her having subsequent strokes. I talked to her on a video call, and mom sent me a couple of videos of her laughing and talking with everyone. I am under no delusions; she is nearer to the end of her life than the beginning. However, I will be very happy if she continues to maintain the good quality of life she is enjoying now until the end, whenever that may be.

2. Josh and I put our names on the no-waste list at Walmart. Several of our colleagues did so last week and got calls for shots within a few days. So hopefully this will lead to us being vaccinated soon.

3. Everyone should go read the new Blake's 7 zine The House Always Sins. I am partial to executrix's contributions. Her writing is always very funny with great dialogue and sharp character insights.

4. I have never shopped at this stationery store, but I thought I'd pass on the PSA: Chicago-based Paper Source is declaring bankruptcy and possibly not paying all the small stationery makers they ordered from during the pandemic.

5.

The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope by Walter M. Kendrick

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This book looks at what Kendrick sees as Trollope's grand unified theory of writing as laid out in his autobiography. I think what Trollope has to say about writing is really interesting and is not far afield from what some of today's writing manuals suggest is necessary to form a writing discipline, but his treatment of writing as something to diligently practice and then sell is exactly what led his contemporaries to devalue his writing (according to Kendrick).

Also, did Henry James ever like anything? Every time I run across a James quote, he just sounds like the worst kind of snobby jerk.



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Comments

[kore]

Yeah, for some reason in WA, CVS, Walgreens and Walmart aren't doing it. The patchwork of vaccines in states and even counties and local health care providers and clinics is driving me FUCKING NUTS. But the new head of the CDC said on Maddow last night that they were still going to leave it all up to the states! Because that's been working SO WELL so far. sigh.

[likeadeuce]

I don't really have an issue w/ how things are being handled here w/r/t my category of vaccine eligibility, the ppl i know who should be on those lists have mostly been able to get it (restaurant workers being the exception and locally they've finally been pushed up the line), there have been lots of public events and i haven't heard of waste being an issue.

ETA: i don't have an issue w/ how it's being handled HERE i meant to say.