Day 17 – Favorite story or collection of stories. Well, there’s Poe, obviously. Oh, Poe. I have a great and mighty affection for him and all his works. Then I also really like Roman Fever by Edith Wharton because of how thoroughly Mrs. Slade gets told. Otherwise, though, I think most of the short stories I like are fanfiction :D I’ve got Opinions on short stories, and a book meme seems the perfect time to share them, but I want to go eat my leftover bacon cheeseburger from yesterday, so I’ll put that off.
So on the wall above the bed in the guest room I’m staying in, there is a picture of me and my two sisters from a family portrait session we did when I was, hmm, 16ish? I think. And I’d never really thought about it before, but there’s something very Thénardier about such a thing… how random and arbitrary to exclude one of four children from a portrait because he happens to be male. You could argue triadic composition, I guess, but even so I think it’s really strange. If there were three brothers and three sisters, it might make a little more sense to do two separate pictures by group, but leaving one out of four and just taking the other three on the basis of sex? It strikes me as excessively strange.
Well, yesterday I worked on my mom’s site for, like, six hours (=, like, $60 *__*) and then worked on Plastic. ‘Twas a pretty productive day, and I got to talk to ZG on the phone, so I am content except for missing my cat. Today, I believe, will be more of the same.
Oh, I have to mention. I’m using my brother’s laptop, which is very nice of my brotha. But for some reason I can’t figure out, the quotation mark key doesn’t work right. I hit it once and nothing happens. I hit it twice and two quotation marks appear. I’m getting used to it, but you can see how this is kindof a bitch for fiction as well as HTML.
Does your brother feel weird about the portrait?
That was nice of your mom to pay you for the website help. I’m sure every little bit will help for now. I hope it also distracted you from missing your cat. Maybe you should talk to your cat on the phone, too. (I’ve called to leave messages for the cats when I was away from home.)
That’s very weird about the quotation mark key. I didn’t realize a single key could go bad on a keyboard.
I’ve just noticed the portrait for the first time in forever. I mean, you don’t really think much about old family pictures, do you? They’re just around. If my brother happens to see this entry, we’ll see what he thinks of it XD
Yeah, I’m quite glad my mom is having me do this. Not only does it get me some money, I’m actually rather fond of tedious website work, and since I closed my own site I don’t really do much of it anymore. Of course it means less time working on fanfiction, but, hell, if I had a real job that would also be the result XD
AH MY CAT. I keep thinking about calling to talk to her, but I just know she would refuse to make a sound for me. OH MY BABYYYYYY.
Yeah, I can’t figure out this key thing. It’s less like the key is broken and more like some kind of weird setting I’ve never heard of and don’t know how to correct XD I think I’ll text my brother and see if he knows anything about it.
I have no idea what this portrait is. Are you three doing anything / looking cool or interesting? I might have easily ruined such a shot, given that I would have been about 5 at the time.
It’s not terribly interesting, no. It’s from the same session that picture mom’s got up in the entryway is — the one where I’m reading to you guys and we all have such vapid expressions? Actually, now that I think about it, I was probably older than 16, but I honestly can’t remember. Anyway, it still strikes me as really strange.