I just realized that I went "ooooooo!" in the last 2 posts. maybe even further back but i'm afraid to look. It's like I'm in "Greystoke" where for the first half hour all they do is hoot at each other.
My mom and dad and minnie and i used to go into "greystoke mode" at random moments all thru my post-greystoke childhood, and we'd just hoot at each other and hop around on the furniture, giggling. we would (before and after greystoke) often go into book-tarzan mode and run about yodelling and wrestling crocodiles and panthers. even today, it is a standard family greeting to walk into a room and say, "Ho! Tarmangani!" or to go after a cat to pick it up and narrate this mundane event with something like "hush, for the mighty king of the jungle stalks Bara, the deer."
Meanwhile... Rook is having the most stressful couple of months, and Bad Day, ever at his job at Barflink. Everyone send him love, and naked photos, and comment on his blog, and make him mix tapes and stuff.
We have a buffy game tonight and i'm looking forward to it! Whump is gm-ing and it's our final episode.
Jo just sat back down in her office chair and said, wistfully, "O iPod! My nipples stand erect in your presence!" and we cracked up insanely. I feel bad to be having so much fun and all this jolly laughing with children peacefully playing, while Rook is being bebothered and frazzled and pressured and tormented at his formerly peaceful, slackacious job!!!
Tomorrow I take off for the Litfest, too. but i have arranged for the neighbor teenager, Tapir, to come for a couple of hours and play with Moomin to take the heat off of Rook so he can lay around or write or whatever...
Miraculousness that Sophie and Moomin are sitting together having a real conversation about secret rooms and castles and pretend games - without any yelling, grabbing, pouting or contradiction going on. how long can it last? Sophie is lying outrageously, telling Moomin that she used to live in China and had a thousand-year-old goldfish that died. "I used to be a Chinese girl. But now I'm dead." "Oh! "
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