2005.06.26

Alone time

Comments
[Alone time]
 
Alone time | New Haven, CT

Have taken a turn for the better, somehow — health crisis averted for now. Still, no sense taking chances, so I spent today mostly sedentary, reading about cherries and felting wool and echidnas, also known as spiny anteaters, the only surviving relatives of the platypus (warning: hatching baby echidna photo). Also started The Diary of Lady Murasaki.

I know it’s a horribly romanticized notion with little connection to reality, but I’ve always thought that if I’d had the chance to choose what era I could live in, that the life of a lady-in-waiting at the Heian court would be very appealing. But then, I’ve always felt (and have mentioned here before) a special affinity with Sei Shōnagon, planted at an early age. Oh, to have lived in an age of aesthetics! That’s the kind of decadence I can get behind. Being able to dress like Queen Amidala would be pure frosting.

I think the charm of tooth-black would wear thin very quickly, though.


ID = 558; $post->blog_id = 1; $post->guid = "alone_time"; $post->comment_status = "open"; function get_option($option) { $settings = array( "disqus_forum_url" => "neonepiphany", "disqus_api_key" => "P3x8kgUz648mcuWEzpiOyeon4BAhuBlgpNAltiDcoXseti7TJ0uZ3Eko0vdsHgeY", "disqus_sort" => "", "disqus_partner_key" => "", "disqus_disable_sync" => "0" ); return $settings[$option]; } function get_permalink() { return "http://www.neonepiphany.com/blog/2005/06/26T224842"; } function get_the_title() { return "Alone time"; } function get_the_excerpt() { return "
\n\"[Alone
\n 
\nAlone time | New Haven, CT\n
\n\n

\n\nHave taken a turn for the better, somehow -- health crisis averted for now. Still, no sense taking chances, so I spent today mostly sedentary, reading about cherries and felting wool and echidnas, also known as spiny anteaters, the only surviving relatives of the platypus (warning: hatching baby echidna photo). Also started The Diary of Lady Murasaki.\n\nI know it's a horribly romanticized notion with little connection to reality, but I've always thought that if I'd had the chance to choose what era I could live in, that the life of a lady-in-waiting at the Heian court would be very appealing. But then, I've always felt (and have mentioned here before) a special affinity with Sei Shōnagon, planted at an early age. Oh, to have lived in an age of aesthetics! That's the kind of decadence I can get behind. Being able to dress like Queen Amidala would be pure frosting.\n\nI think the charm of tooth-black would wear thin very quickly, though."; } function get_the_offset() { return -8; } function start_mt() { include('/home/ianthe/neonepiphany.com/mt/php/mt.php'); $mt = MT::get_instance(1, '/home/ianthe/neonepiphany.com/mt/mt-config.cgi'); return $mt; } function trackback_url() { return "http://www.neonepiphany.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/520"; } include('/home/ianthe/neonepiphany.com/mt/plugins/disqus/php/disqus.php'); include(dsq_comments_template(1)); ?>

Powered by
Movable Type 5.2
neonepiphany dot com