against the odds

[fahye]

Today has been moderately awesome:

1) I acquired three new pieces of jewellery (including a steampunk pocketwatch because _leareth is a far superior being to all of you puny mortals), and for those of you who aren't aware of the significance of this, jewellery : me is somewhat akin to shoes : whatsherface from that show that I like to pretend that I've never watched. I bought a bracelet of red Venetian glass to match the earrings that my father bought me in Florence and the necklace that a friend bought me in Venice, and this gives me warm fuzzies of aesthetic symmetry in the same way that solving equations used to and writing iambic pentameter does today.

2) It turns out that the Narnia fandom leaves LONG AND THINKY FEEDBACK of the sort that sets a girl's hands a-fluttering in authorial glee.

3) I actually managed to get some study done as well!

3a) And by 'study' I mean 'colouring in'. Us future doctors take our kicks where we can get 'em, and tonight my kicks involved drinking many cups of tea and lovingly arranging my Crayola coloured pencils into a pretty rainbow before using them to colour in the rotator cuff muscles.

Tomorrow has a lot to live up to. I'm going to see if I can repeat last Sunday's freakish experience and go for a run, and then I'm going to go to brunch and stuff myself with teensy muffins and hash browns and eggs, and then Fabian the laptop & I are moving into the college library until I finish my lit review on geriatric depression.

I'd like to write something, too, but my writing muscles are currently a pile of limp rags somewhere in the corner of my brain. We'll see.

Comments

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

Dude, where do you even find anatomy colouring books that are good? Because I have seen some, but they have teeny tiny pictures and then lots of writing, which defeats the point of it being a colouring book in my mind.

Also, goddamn you make me want to buy some bacon and do breakfast-for-dinner tonight.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I quite like the one I linked to? There's a lot of text, but that makes it worth the price, because otherwise I'd just colour and switch my brain off and not learn anything.

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

See, when I study right now, I tend to hand-draw diagrams and then colour code them with highlighters, but that takes a bit of time and I'm a bad artist, so I want something with big pictures that I can just colour and/or trace.

There. . .appears to not be a market for this at all.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

2. No, we leave LONG AND THINKY FEEDBACK for people who write LONG AND THINKY FICS. And doubly so given that we've been deprived of anything really decent for weeks.
Also you get LONG AND THINKY because you're new. Bedlam gets a lot of 'I LOVE THIS AS USUAL FULL STOP' kind of comments.

*sighs* I want colouring-in-books to study with. I wonder if I can make a colour-your-own-saint set, that would be FUN.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Hahaha I have two copies of that book! ummm.