Daily post

Sleep: 2:30am to 8:30am

Weather: clear, 78F, 54% humidity, high 87F

Daily BPAL: THE SCHOOL HOUSE
Description: Dandelion, white clover, balsam fir logs, and birchwood switches.
In bottle: fir and birchwood, with an afterscent of dandelion.
On me: Dandelion and clover, with an afterscent of birchwood and an undertone of fir. Yup, smells like an old wooden schoolhouse in a field.

Daily Tarot: 5 of Pentacles: Unemployment, destitution. Loss of home. Loneliness. Lovers unable to find a meeting place. Affinities discovered through similar troubles. Dark night of the soul.

MyMiniCity: Increase Population
Increase Transportation
Increase Industry
Increase Security

Reading:
Lost in Katrina by Mikel Schaefer
Myths of the Norsemen: from the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. Guerber
The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light by Tom Harpur
On Old Age by Cicero
Th1rte3n by Richard K. Morgan
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Ok, this is shadesong's fault.

It started with shadesong posting her story bit to the prompt What ice is saying as it crackles in winter. Then feste_sylvain replied "I've heard the ice crack. Just before I went under." This got me thinking: "That would be an interesting companion piece. This is what the ice is saying when it cracks slowly, subtly. What is the ice saying when the cracking is sudden, violent?". Of course, when I told shadesong she said "Write it!!". So I did. Story bit under the cut for strong language some people might not want polluting their flist:

( What ice is saying when it cracks )

I should put a caveat that this is intended as a companion to shadesong's piece, and thus is following along with the idea that she expressed more clearly -- the words are not actually the *ice* speaking - they are words spoken by others, breath condensing into water into ice, and released when the ice cracks. I should try to figure out a way to make that more clear without having to refer to shadesong's bit.

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I'm in a really crappy mood today and I don't know why. I'm easily annoyed or frustrated, and I had to literally bite my tongue to keep myself from making a sarcastic reply to a person at the reference who as being particularly obtuse. I should go home early today, for everyone's continued sanity.