softball, Luns, and busy days.

[katster]

tired, bed, but first the softball update.

I went 1-3 in the first game, and 1-2 with a walk in the second. I also got knocked over both games. In the first game, I was fielding a throw at first and trying to get control of the ball when the runner just smacked right into me. She was safe in the end, I didn't have control of the ball when I fell over.

Second incident occurs at first as well, only this time I was running after my walk. The player at the plate slams the ball hard and I start going thinking it's going ot be a grounder. Nope, sharp line drive right to the shortstop, and he nearly picks me off first. That time, I got a glove in my face for my troubles, just under the right eye. Under the glasses, somehow. And an elbow to the shoulder. I was lucky, he was trying desperately to deflect the ball away from me. So I ended up safe, but...

Ah well, it ain't softball unless somebody gets dirty. ;)

And then I had a bit of dinner with Luns, and he noticed the book I'm reading (which is the Illuminatus trilogy, but I've only just started so no spoilers...), and made a comment about American society being the illiterati. ;) ...for some reason that amused me, so I figured I'd share.

and now it is time for me to go to bed, and ignore these papers I've printed out for proofing, because I have to be up at six AM. It's going to be brutal, the next couple of days. ;) (Wednesday is up at five-thirty AM, because I have to be to UCSF by eight-thirty. Family meeting about my mother.)

anyway, this here is the katster, signing off.

Comments

[mindme.livejournal.com]

I've tried to read the Illuminatus trilogy twice. It's one of those books where if you can get past 100 pages you're a better man (or woman). It starts off pretty coherent but then the narrative just becomes unhinged and it's like the rest was written by the authors after they dropped a lot of acid.

[chamelaeon.livejournal.com]

I personally consider it to be one of the best books I've ever read - not really due to the literature's sake, obviously. The literary sources it draws from are many and varied, from Joyce to Lovecraft to perhaps a tiny bit of Hunter S. Thompson, but it's not that impressive a book, in terms of just a writing critic's point of view.
I feel it shines first in its ability to be coherently incoherent, which is a neat trick but you've got to be willing to ride along with the chaos for a while, and definitely put up with some rereadings. And then it also functions as a kind of literary Rorschach test. Not to the extent of Joyce's Ulysses - which is a book you can throw any metaphor ever at and make it stick - but more along the lines of drawing to the surface and revealing tendencies due to what you expect to happen in the book.

Which all sounds like a buch of hooey, I guess. I don't know, but I flew through Illuminatus! and I'm still stuck on page three of Atlas Shrugged, so take this as you will. ^_~

[ladycalliope.livejournal.com]

I think I might have made it past page 100 before I said to myself, "WTF am I reading this drivel?"

I will never get those hours back again.

Hah!

[lirazel.livejournal.com]

I can't read either of them, so there!

And thanks for telling us how you are, Kat. I had noticed your absence, as it were, but figgered it was due to school.