Week in Review

[kate_nepveu]

My brother got married this weekend; I wish him all the best in his new family. Other bits about the weekend:

• We learned that Chad's new car does very well in the snow, even if other drivers don't.
• It's been a long time since I've spent that much time in a facility that permits smoking (which reminds me, our jackets are still in the dryer).
• And I still really hate it when a man remarks on my physical attractiveness to Chad, while I am standing right there.

  (Chad has the perfect response, which is to say, "And she's smarter than me, too." Unfortunately, it tends to go completely over the heads of the idiots making the comment; also, it would work better if I could suppress my ritual denial of the statement, since I don't believe it's true, even though Chad insists on it regularly. In this case, though, I don't mind that he says it.)

In other non-news, everyone loves our dog Emmy. Background: we'd wondered for some time if the cleaning people let her out of her crate while they were here, because we'd sometimes find her crate only partly latched after. Sometime last month, Chad came home and found one of the regular cleaning people still here, so he asked. The guy said yes, sometime he let the dog out; she'd lie down outside the upstairs bathroom and keep him company while he cleaned. Which is very cute.

Anyway, this week Chad came home and found a bone in the dog's crate. A new bone, one we hadn't given her. While we did have a couple bones of this type in the kitchen, I am reasonably sure that the cleaner didn't take one of those: which means that one of the cleaning people went out and bought our dog a bone as a present. She is so good that near-strangers buy her stuff!

In literary news, Chad and I had this conversation over dinner:

KATE: . . . and I left Jack and Stephen in a very dangerous situation in my audiobook, but since it's only halfway through the book, I'm pretty sure they don't die.

CHAD: And also since it's book, what, thirteen of twenty?

KATE: Well, yeah.

CHAD: Unless they spend the rest of the series as zombies. Which might explain their popularity with sf fans.

Which is an AU challenge if I ever heard one (see also: "Francis Crawford of Lymond, the (Zombie) Master of Culter" (spoilers for Dorothy Dunnett's The Game of Kings)).

Finally, in my universe there was only the Puppy Bowl today and no other Bowl anything. Do not make comments to the contrary.

Comments

[cofax7]

Actually, if you poke about that community you will indeed find a zombie story set in the Master-and-Commander universe (by jonquil, IIRC).

I skipped all sorts of bowls today and instead worked on a story and roasted a chicken.

[kate_nepveu]

Thank you for actually stating the universe, which I see I failed to do.

And not only does the story exist (here: http://community.livejournal.com/la_la_la_2004/3721.html ) but I even read it back in the day, at least judging by the comment I left. Apparently zombies have been eating my braaaaains.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Aw, how sweet of the cleaners! Of course, with a face like Emmy's, it's not terribly surprising. (And the ears. She's got the ears that make me get all mooshy.)

And I still really hate it when a man remarks on my physical attractiveness to Chad, while I am standing right there.

I often meet Mark for lunch after one of my dance classes. Since it's immediately after, I'm typically still in full regalia - hip scarf, handflower and all - because his lunch break is so short. Unless we go to Aladdin's, someone will nearly always make a comment to Mark about me being a bellydancer being "hot". While I'm right there. I never know whether to claw their eyes out (because while yes, the art is beautiful, it's not meant for seduction and we don't dance to make men happy) or to be amused by the clueless rudeness. Mark has taken to saying "She's not deaf", which usually startles them into shutting up.

[kate_nepveu]

Lookit the sad doggie!

"Not deaf" is also a good one.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

"Francis Crawford of Lymond, the (Zombie) Master of Culter"

I hate you.

Thanks.

[kate_nepveu]

Mwa-ha-ha.

[mdevnich.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU for that link to Francis Crawford, Zombie Master. That made me very happy.

[kate_nepveu]

Isn't it great? Glad you liked.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

SOmeday you will find yourself watching your nieces and nephews get married. You may, at that point, begin to wonder if this means you are getting old.

[sraun]

Puppy Bowl! I got to watch the first half and part of the Kitty Half-Time Show before bed last night - I'm hoping to get through the rest of it tonight.