Writer's Block: Going down
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Let him sleep, of course, but I might take his hand.
Another Tabi incident last night. She was on my lap while I was reading - glasses off because I didn't want anything between me and GRRM's deathless prose* - and we both saw a mouse trotting across the floor at the same moment. She leaped off my lap and went for it. I put my glasses on and so was able to see the expression on her face as she put the brakes on and went "OMG SPIDER!" I did too. Lumpen though I am I can still get all of myself onto the seat of my chair when there's a spider on the floor and especially when it's one big enough for me to spot without my glasses.
Sizz noticed it too and joined Tabi in following it all around the room at a respectful distance until Himself got irritated by all the activity and did the old mug and paper trick to take it outside - where I imagine it spent the night hunting rats.
Okay, it wasn't a big spider, body about the size of the top of my finger, legs *shudder* honestly I didn't look that closely. But to this self confessed arachnophobe it was the size of a saucer.
* figure of speech. I've never read any novelist, other than Sven Hassell, who kills SO many people. Martin is one of the people who make me want to stop storytelling because he's already said everything I'd like to say only so much better.
Let him sleep, of course, but I might take his hand.
Another Tabi incident last night. She was on my lap while I was reading - glasses off because I didn't want anything between me and GRRM's deathless prose* - and we both saw a mouse trotting across the floor at the same moment. She leaped off my lap and went for it. I put my glasses on and so was able to see the expression on her face as she put the brakes on and went "OMG SPIDER!" I did too. Lumpen though I am I can still get all of myself onto the seat of my chair when there's a spider on the floor and especially when it's one big enough for me to spot without my glasses.
Sizz noticed it too and joined Tabi in following it all around the room at a respectful distance until Himself got irritated by all the activity and did the old mug and paper trick to take it outside - where I imagine it spent the night hunting rats.
Okay, it wasn't a big spider, body about the size of the top of my finger, legs *shudder* honestly I didn't look that closely. But to this self confessed arachnophobe it was the size of a saucer.
* figure of speech. I've never read any novelist, other than Sven Hassell, who kills SO many people. Martin is one of the people who make me want to stop storytelling because he's already said everything I'd like to say only so much better.
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Date: 2011-04-13 11:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-13 06:56 pm (UTC)And thanks for the encouragement. More stories on the way.
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Date: 2011-04-13 12:53 pm (UTC)Honestly? He does the "How" very skillfully, I agree, but your characters seem infinitely nicer and more decent than his.
Good luck with the spiders. I hope there won't be another one that scares you so soon. (Strangely enough, arachnophobia is not among my many fears, so I tend to carry spiders outside on my palm and only use the mug-and-paper trick for the really fast ones, but I sympathize anyway!).
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Date: 2011-04-13 06:58 pm (UTC)I do envy you. I dislike heights and am scared of sharks but can avoid those. Spiders are everywhere!
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Date: 2011-04-13 03:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-13 07:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-13 05:17 pm (UTC)Which book are you on right now?
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Date: 2011-04-13 07:06 pm (UTC)I'm on part 1 of A Storm of Swords. Loving it. :D
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Date: 2011-04-13 06:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-13 07:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-13 09:12 pm (UTC)I don't mind sharing the house with wee spiders and tend to just leave them to get on with their business. Once they reach a certain size though they get relocated to the garden.
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Date: 2011-04-13 09:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-13 10:22 pm (UTC)Googled "tegs" and interwebs tells me they are: two year old sheep, a Swedish football team or thermoelectric generators. I'm not surprised the cat was alarmed to find a sheep team running around your house! To say nothing of the Swedish football team...
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Date: 2011-04-14 06:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-14 10:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-14 08:41 pm (UTC)Yes, I know they do no harm technically but sometimes, honestly, it's them or me.
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Date: 2011-04-14 10:33 pm (UTC)Also, if they're running (fast) up the curtains, there's no time to find a wooden spoon and hammer...
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Date: 2011-04-15 05:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-14 12:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-14 08:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-14 10:41 pm (UTC)