stark realization
Mar. 20th, 2005 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrian_turtleI'm not usually too efficient with running errands. However, it may have been a mistake to take my down jacket to the cleaners yesterday. It's supposed to snow tomorrow, and also Thursday. I was caught up in the enthusiasm of tidying, putting books away, cleaning up after winter, enjoying the sunshine. I took 20 books to the used book exchange and managed to come back with only 3. (Clearly, I'm not paying enough attention, because I now have 2 copies of _A Game of Thrones_, in different bindings, 1 copy of _A Clash of Kings_, and no _Storm of Swords_. Pfui.) This afternoon, I was trying to reread the beginning of _A Game of Thrones_ while walking slowly along the bikeway, picking my way carefully through the snow and ice remaining on the unplowed bit. The sidewalks visible from my apartment are pretty well cleared, so I had ventured out in sneakers, but the bikeway is another story.
A jogger going the other way smiled at me. I smiled back, feeling neighborly. She asked, "Wasn't it warm, just a few hours ago?" I had the rare opportunity to hold up _A Game of Thrones_ and say, in context, yet to a stranger, "Winter is coming, again."
I'm not making up the bit about the music. My boss lent me Richard Thompson's _1000 Years of Popular Music_, and I'm just now finding time to listen to it. His cheerful arrangement of "Sumer is Icumen In" was playing when I started writing this post. I'm taking so long to finish posting (what with interruptions for laundry and such) that we've gotten all the way up to "Tempted." I remember when that was new, in 1980 or so, and I loved it. I don't know if my boss thinks of that as the boring music his parents used to listen to, when he was too little to be paying attention, or if it blurs into the same historical background as "Sumer is Icumen In."
A jogger going the other way smiled at me. I smiled back, feeling neighborly. She asked, "Wasn't it warm, just a few hours ago?" I had the rare opportunity to hold up _A Game of Thrones_ and say, in context, yet to a stranger, "Winter is coming, again."
I'm not making up the bit about the music. My boss lent me Richard Thompson's _1000 Years of Popular Music_, and I'm just now finding time to listen to it. His cheerful arrangement of "Sumer is Icumen In" was playing when I started writing this post. I'm taking so long to finish posting (what with interruptions for laundry and such) that we've gotten all the way up to "Tempted." I remember when that was new, in 1980 or so, and I loved it. I don't know if my boss thinks of that as the boring music his parents used to listen to, when he was too little to be paying attention, or if it blurs into the same historical background as "Sumer is Icumen In."
