Cleanliness is Next to...Impossible

[mrockwell]

Writing

My triolet, "Into the West," is available in the latest issue (#3) of The Shantytown Anomaly, along with some other really good genre poetry and stories. It's only $3; pick up a copy. You won't be disappointed!

Also, I may have an opportunity to do some faith-based pro-military writing, which I'm excited about. More details as things firm up.

Everything Else

So, I've really been looking forward to the new season of Battlestar Galactica. Hubby and I watched it last night and...well, we were disappointed. Even aside from the blatant analogy to the war in Iraq (I thought Ronald Moore was producing this, not Michael?), it was sort of plodding and obvious and just not everything I'd hoped it would be. It did have a good cliffhanger ending, so I'm not tuning out by any means, but I hope future episodes will be a little less heavy-handed.

In other news, we were planning on getting built-ins for our library, but plans aft gang agley, so now we are going to be picking up four sets of 6' tall bookshelves and assembling them ourselves (about $2000 cheaper than the built-ins), which means I have to clean up that room. Unfortunately, YB has been using it as a playroom, and he may not be to happy with having to share it with a few thousand books. Guess we'll find out.

Interesting thing #30: My mother wanted to name me "Brandywine," after Tolkien's river, but my grandfather objected, saying people would call me "Booze." While I'm not sure I really care much for my mother's second choice, at least the only thing that rhymes with Marcy is "Parsley."

Comments

[saetter.livejournal.com]

I was kind of disappointed in BSG too. The Iraq parallels were a bit over the top and forced, but that's not what bothered me. After an hour, I started getting ansy and felt like doing something else. In thinking about it, I think there were too many storylines they tried to advance and too many drastic character changes to pull off. It's not too much of a stretch that Tigh is pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable, or that his wife will do what's necessary to protect him.

I think it was the Starbuck storyline and Galactica/Pegasus parts that dragged for me. Starbuck was sucked in too fast, and Apollo's changes we too drastic. He never struck me as the cut and run kind of guy, even with a few (dozen) extra pounds. I felt that as well last season when he almost died and then gave up the desire to live. Is it the actor or the writing that make his changes so hard for me to swallow?

Anyway. Still a fan, but disappointed.

As for the bookcases, build them. :) For the same money, you could buy the woodshop and wood to make better bookcases. Whenever I go into a furniture store, I cringe when I look at the quality of materials... Then I see how much they want for particle board! /faint

Your hubby's an engineer. If I can build nice furniture, he can. :)
(Sorry Hubby Rockwell)

[mrockwell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I turned to my hubby (not Rockwell, BTW - we have different last names) after BSG was over and said, "I sure hope Starbuck is just playing along; otherwise she is officially too stupid to live."

RE: Building bookshelves. Ideally, that would work, but hubby's schedule is a little packed, and will be for the forseeable future, so...