The Boot: Day 7; Onion Watch: Day 2
Jan. 16th, 2018 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanI didn't get a big enough supply of cast socks (still no actual group of characters in the sock *disappointed face*), but I think they can be hand washed. My foot approves of my having figured out that I was putting the front panel of the boot on upside down. No permanent damage seems to have been done; and actually, it may be my right knee, which was already a bit martyred in its attitude towards doing a different kind of work than usual, that is really grateful. All parts of me are pretty bored with this entire situation and I would really like to shovel some snow, but there isn't much to complain of in the larger scheme of things.
Saffron, after her profound sleeping-off-the-dissipation nap, has been entirely herself. So has Cassie; it's just that I am becoming more fully persuaded that Cass did not actually get any onion dip.
In other news, while I was waiting for the plumber to finish his miracle yesterday, I went through my mail, and found with some relief the first invoice for my Part B Medicare plan. I opened it and was instantly horrified. They wanted $536. Most people pay $134 a month for Part B, though you can get that waived or get help with it if it's a hardship, and apparently some people pay more. But this was MORE OH MY GOD MORE WHAT. Then I noticed the mathematical relationship between the expected and the actual charge, and read the fine print. They want to be paid quarterly. This isn't exactly convenient, but at least the amount is not utterly terrifying.
I've been rereading Anthony Price -- it's a thing that I do when I miss Mike Ford -- and trying to write a post about the experience. There are some bad fairies accompanying me on this adventure. At least, I think there are. Point of view in the Price books is really complex and layered and convoluted, like everything else about them, and tracking down who really thinks what and what Price thinks about it or wants you to think about it is surprisingly difficult. So there are some interior thoughts and some lines of dialogue that I recoil from utterly; but if they come from a character that Price is building up and undercutting at the same time, or if a different character takes issue with the opinion but not as vigorously as I'd like, but that character is probably being undercut too, it's a little difficult to see whether that is a bad fairy or just a weird set of shadows.
Pamela
Saffron, after her profound sleeping-off-the-dissipation nap, has been entirely herself. So has Cassie; it's just that I am becoming more fully persuaded that Cass did not actually get any onion dip.
In other news, while I was waiting for the plumber to finish his miracle yesterday, I went through my mail, and found with some relief the first invoice for my Part B Medicare plan. I opened it and was instantly horrified. They wanted $536. Most people pay $134 a month for Part B, though you can get that waived or get help with it if it's a hardship, and apparently some people pay more. But this was MORE OH MY GOD MORE WHAT. Then I noticed the mathematical relationship between the expected and the actual charge, and read the fine print. They want to be paid quarterly. This isn't exactly convenient, but at least the amount is not utterly terrifying.
I've been rereading Anthony Price -- it's a thing that I do when I miss Mike Ford -- and trying to write a post about the experience. There are some bad fairies accompanying me on this adventure. At least, I think there are. Point of view in the Price books is really complex and layered and convoluted, like everything else about them, and tracking down who really thinks what and what Price thinks about it or wants you to think about it is surprisingly difficult. So there are some interior thoughts and some lines of dialogue that I recoil from utterly; but if they come from a character that Price is building up and undercutting at the same time, or if a different character takes issue with the opinion but not as vigorously as I'd like, but that character is probably being undercut too, it's a little difficult to see whether that is a bad fairy or just a weird set of shadows.
Pamela
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Date: 2018-01-16 09:30 pm (UTC)As diagnostic field marks of bad fairies go, I should not think one could readily do better!
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Date: 2018-01-16 11:09 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2018-01-17 05:10 am (UTC)P.
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Date: 2018-01-17 12:09 am (UTC)You explain why I reread Price so often far better than I could. There's always something new.
Mary Anne in Kentucky
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Date: 2018-01-17 01:35 am (UTC)I can't believe no one makes cast socks with different casts (shows, movies, books if you're fine with fanart) on them. There is obviously a market!
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Date: 2018-01-17 05:12 am (UTC)P.
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Date: 2018-01-17 02:35 am (UTC)And I've never gotten around to Price, but maybe I should bump him up the list a little.
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Date: 2018-01-17 04:26 am (UTC)Um, working together for too long under adverse conditions?
Price is very very good; and you have just read the caveat about maybe bad fairies. In the beginning he has some typical trouble -- he can create women characters who sound strong, but he doesn't know what to do with them afterwards. He does much better later, but a lot of his male characters are just so sexist. The women's responses to this are palliative, at least for this reader; but a little off sometimes -- or maybe not. The books take place in Britain starting in the seventies and everybody was wrong-footing everybody else then.
P.
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Date: 2018-01-17 02:45 pm (UTC)I believe there exist character shoes, for you to wear over the socks after your ankle heals completely. (May it happen soon.)