if you think that i'm nothing

Time:

12:29 am.

...and, while i cannot sleep and end up composing filks about painkilers (o give me 'brufen, make 'em one-two-three, i will take them, they'll go to sleep with me...) and wondering about the fact that by day i feel no cold and by night i sleep next to a fully-on radiator under a double duvet, i'd just like to state that the preponderace of 'seme' and 'uke' should be answered with growing use of 'tachi' and 'neko': butch, and femme.

...which is mainly amusing when you transpose it into situations where the /other/ meanings of tachi and neko are used. the linuxmandy half of the computer features a little silly toy thing which has now been renamed 'femme', and the 'phrase minna-chan-tachi' will now make me blink and reread.

And, you know, when i got all that information I was /supposed/ to have got and be reading books about isolationism in the tokugawa bafuku, not about homosexuality in the tokugawa bafuku (which is dealt with in one of the chapters, hence how i found it). So close, but yet so far.

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Subject:	i killed my first bear when i was only three!
Time:	6:51 pm.

i wrote all this stuff, and then i hit a button and it disappeared. waaah.

so, um, i have had productive day with no sk00l but much meiji. well, tokugawa. i hope i'll be able to read my squeaky mechanic pencil notes on narrowline paper at some random point in the future, i really do. and then, having decided that sorai was inessential and the reading of him in 2 different translations i'd done was All In Vain, i left: and discovered a booksale at ULU. Mmmm, boooks.

someone should make sure that you don't let a harpy with ready cash near printed matter.

i now have study-helpful texts for english: chaucer's characterisation in canterbury tales, essays on the (ugh ugh ugh hate hate hate) tempest, oxford companion to amerilit. And I found an original faber-and-faber Murder in teh Cathedral, which I glomped, publically, and then almost fell over something. Plus a nice new shiny translation (well, actually matt, because matt has more class. neatly-polished-with-dry-pumice, maybe. ^_^) of the Odyssey. Mmmm, homer. And, and and, a new translation of Goethe's Faust which actually purports to be /good/ - which cannot be said of the last translation of it i read - and really seems it. And I read the heavenly introduction, the one with god and mephisto and the archangels, and: no uriel! because Uriel doesn't exist in most mythology of major archangels (who comprise the other three elements)! and anyway earth isn't a hebrew element! which made me happy, because, um. yeah. And I then, reading the second speech - gabriel - realised that once, long ago, i had written a trio to the words of that hymn-of-praise as 'twas written in the bad translation. And, um, I'd made gabriel a soprano (woman/young girl), and michael an alto/treble/countertenor (young boy's voice, preff.), and raphael tenor-poss-baritone.

And therefore i have decided that me and yuki-sensei had the same ideas going there, darn it.

you know, sometimes i wish i wasn't always so keen on this jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none thing. Considering i have the tune of a Hymn To The Virgin based on a Catullus lyric (dianae sumus in fide / puellae et pueri integri / dianam, pueri integri / puellaeque, canamus) stuck in my head, and i don't know enough about composition, really, to know whether i can write it right. Hell, i have issues with just writing the notes that comprise music, sometimes. Or even with /reading/ them. O, why didn't I specialise?

In other news, I just found my everyman and medieval miracle plays. Eee! medieval depictions of the Fall! with Alliteration!

Lucifer: O, what I am featous and figured full fit!
The form of my fairhood upon me is fest;
All wealth in my wield is, I wot by my wit,
The beams of my brighthead are bigged with the best,
My showing is shimmering and shining.
So bigly to bliss am I brought,
Me needs for to noy me right nought;
Here shall never pain me be pining.

(...and my composition brain should stop suggesting i make it a children's miniopera, with different musical styles to represent the different characters.)

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