one day, enough
Aug. 29th, 2009 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacFirst off, a murrain on people who stand in library aisles, yakking away on their cell phones and unaware, for whole minutes on end, of the person trying to catch their attention so that they may pass by.
I knew I was in a bad mood after that when I dropped into a bookstore and a clerk came up and cheerfully asked if I wanted to sign up for a raffle to win a copy of Dan Brown's next novel. My faux-witty reply was, "How about a raffle where the prize is not having to get a copy of Dan Brown's next novel?" ("Not a fan, eh?" murmured the clerk, to which my reply was even less witty.)
Enough of a bad mood that I dropped the voluntary social events I'd been planning for the day (this is why I didn't tell anyone I was going: I might not, you see) and holed up for the afternoon instead.
But I recovered under the soothing ministrations of the music of Brocelïande, who were holding a concert celebrating the emergence of their fabled Tolkien album, The Starlit Jewel, out of durance vile or through the Paths of the Dead or whatever metaphor you'd prefer. (No link, because the website hasn't heard the good news yet. But yes, you can get it again. Spread the word.) About half the evening was Tolkien songs - the selection slightly limited as Karl has left the band - and the rest mostly new (to them) Renaissance and folk songs. Came home humming.
I knew I was in a bad mood after that when I dropped into a bookstore and a clerk came up and cheerfully asked if I wanted to sign up for a raffle to win a copy of Dan Brown's next novel. My faux-witty reply was, "How about a raffle where the prize is not having to get a copy of Dan Brown's next novel?" ("Not a fan, eh?" murmured the clerk, to which my reply was even less witty.)
Enough of a bad mood that I dropped the voluntary social events I'd been planning for the day (this is why I didn't tell anyone I was going: I might not, you see) and holed up for the afternoon instead.
But I recovered under the soothing ministrations of the music of Brocelïande, who were holding a concert celebrating the emergence of their fabled Tolkien album, The Starlit Jewel, out of durance vile or through the Paths of the Dead or whatever metaphor you'd prefer. (No link, because the website hasn't heard the good news yet. But yes, you can get it again. Spread the word.) About half the evening was Tolkien songs - the selection slightly limited as Karl has left the band - and the rest mostly new (to them) Renaissance and folk songs. Came home humming.
