This makes me want to read LMB even more, and I'd already been curious.
(We had an incident a while ago that was international in scope in that it occurred at the Olympics, but possibly only memorable to Canadians, as it was a Canadian athlete. This guy, a Canadian, won the gold in snowboarding. Later, it was stripped away because it was revealed that he tested positive for marijuana use. The whole thing seemed ridiculous to me because, first, the drug testing was originally supposed to be for performance-enhancing drugs, not as a punitive morality thing. Nobody even tried to argue that marijuana was performance-enhancing -- they all just on this, "He's supposed to be a role model! Think of the children!" trip. However, to me, it seemed that if this guy can manage to nail the gold medal in the Olympics *WHILE HE'S HIGH*, then hot damn, he must be amazing!)
One of my best friends in the world recommended Kushiel's Dart to me for years upon years and tries heartily to get all of her friends to read it. Finally she just up and mailed me a copy one day. I tried really hard, but I couldn't get past 200 pages. It was like putting hot pokers in my eye. (And since I don't have the little red fleck that indicates that I'm the ONE TRUE MASOCHIST who actually *likes* pain in the entire world for the last few generations but for whom they still maintain an entire fabric making trade producing a specific colour of fabric that only I can wear, that's not an appealing concept.) I'm glad it's going better for you this time around. :)
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(We had an incident a while ago that was international in scope in that it occurred at the Olympics, but possibly only memorable to Canadians, as it was a Canadian athlete. This guy, a Canadian, won the gold in snowboarding. Later, it was stripped away because it was revealed that he tested positive for marijuana use. The whole thing seemed ridiculous to me because, first, the drug testing was originally supposed to be for performance-enhancing drugs, not as a punitive morality thing. Nobody even tried to argue that marijuana was performance-enhancing -- they all just on this, "He's supposed to be a role model! Think of the children!" trip. However, to me, it seemed that if this guy can manage to nail the gold medal in the Olympics *WHILE HE'S HIGH*, then hot damn, he must be amazing!)
One of my best friends in the world recommended Kushiel's Dart to me for years upon years and tries heartily to get all of her friends to read it. Finally she just up and mailed me a copy one day. I tried really hard, but I couldn't get past 200 pages. It was like putting hot pokers in my eye. (And since I don't have the little red fleck that indicates that I'm the ONE TRUE MASOCHIST who actually *likes* pain in the entire world for the last few generations but for whom they still maintain an entire fabric making trade producing a specific colour of fabric that only I can wear, that's not an appealing concept.) I'm glad it's going better for you this time around. :)