Home for the Weekend

[elspethdixon]

I'm home for the weekend and typing this up in the St. Mary's county library, since the ice storm last week knocked out our internet (and phones).

I'm finally done with all grad school applications, having turned my Hollins MFA one in yesterday, and it's a massive, massive relief. Now, all I have to do is find a second reader for my English thesis, and wait for the ETS to gets their collective asses in gear and tell me my GRE subject test scores (they somehow managed to missfile the scores for everyone who took the test in Lynchburg).

Also, perhaps because I'm now home and away from fangirl-y things, Gunslinger is eating my brain (as is Barbara Hambly's Banjamin January series, now that it's got a fandom of two people). It didn't help that last night the history channel had a show on about 19th century saloons.

Hugs to lostcatholic back in Roanoke. Oh, and pixyofthestyx? The History channel saloon program had showed one of the photographs from our Gunslinger research material (not the one with Stella's painting, alas).

Comments

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

Cool! Which picture did they show? Hope that you're having a good time at home.

And talk about things eating your brain- I had all of the fun of staying up until eight in the morning, trying to figure out what sort coats everyone would have in the 1920's. Which was fun, and I did get a good bit written, but was probably essentially pointless, since it's a pretty minor detail.

Enjoy the weekend.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

I had all of the fun of staying up until eight in the morning, trying to figure out what sort coats everyone would have in the 1920's

Though I know it's about five years too early, the image of Hannibal in a zoot suit won't leave my brain alone. And it's such a deeply ridiculous looking image, too, especially since Hannibal wouldn't be caught dead in one.

The history channel showed the photo of the "Cosmopolitan" bar in Nevada? New Mexico?---I can't remember where, just that it has a bunch of scuzzy looking miners in it, and inspired the name of the bar in chapter one.

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

Ahh- I remember that one. And Hannibal in a zoot suit would be scary. He'd just be so lost inside all of that excess cloth.

And damn, they just keep on getting cuter and more domestic throughout the books, don't they?