Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sun-burnt

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Indeed. I am feeling my lack of occupation most deeply. To compensate, I decided to tackle Parmenides yesterday. Not too bad yet, except I don't know where all these people are getting the bit about the wheels making a noise like a pipe as the axles turn in their whatsits - the way I and the Oxford Classical Dictionary read it, one can have either the whatsits or the pipes, but not both, and one really oughtn't leave out the "things which have been burned", i.e., sparks, which make a lot more sense to me anyway.

Speaking of things which have been burned, I seem to be oddly prone to sunburn this year. Consequently I am spending rather more time than usual indoors cleaning my room. Perhaps, even as I am putting up new posters and eyeing the curtains thoughtfully, I am preparing to leave it behind. The horse-show and vaulting ribbons have gone in a shoebox, and their places on the wall are being replaced by signs clearly indicating that here lives or sleeps one over-fond of Tolkien and Noyes. Time is not a whirligig at present, but something else, and though I have spent considerable energy thinking about it, I am quite sure I have missed something of vital importance.

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I seem to be oddly prone to sunburn this year. Consequently I am spending rather more time than usual indoors cleaning my room.
i'm sorry about the first part & i comiserate in terms of the 2nd. when & where did i get so much stuff? i think the oodles of spare time that i now have since i don't have a job, i need to go through & do some major sorting in my bedroom.

signs clearly indicating that here lives or sleeps one over-fond of Tolkien and Noyes
& there's nothing wrong with that. btw, allie & i managed to find a cope of the pirates of penzance at the music library - it's not the best, since it's a taped version of a live performance, but it is most fantastic, esp with patricia routledge as the nanny & kevin kline as the pirate king - he's absolutely wonderful!

-melanie

p.s. how is the sp wiggle & goat girl going? my sister helped me decide today that the 'p' stands for percival. do you think that is pompous enough or do you have any other ideas? i would gladly like your opinion. :D

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I was just thinking about the P of P - and it is fantastic - and I have a rather good version I can probably smuggle back, if the town library doesn't have a better one.

Percival will do nicely. I plan to be working on that soon. Veeery soon. Just as soon as I figure out what happens next.