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the doctor in the woods
Jun. 2nd, 2010 03:23 pmAargh, I will _not_ be tempted by shiny stuff from Forbiddenplanet.com! Or Amazon! nononono I can resist...
Today I've been out in lovely weather again, looking at rocks and getting eaten alive by big mosquitoes. They're going to build a crime lab up on a slope, and below it is an artists' refuge. I got to talk with one of them -- currently working on a big dragon in styrofoam, otherwise he works in stone, how appropriate -- and he said the first thing he heard about this project was last week, the last day of being able to register complaints.
I didn't say "stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'beware of the leopard'" but that's what crossed my mind.
And anyway, did they do no initial research into the ground conditions at all before they decided to put a five-storey building on the edge of a slope that is already crumbling under its own weight, or just gravity? Sheesh. "Hey, you're the rock experts -- solve this!" Well OK, let's encase the whole lower slope in reinforced concrete then, bet everyone below will be very happy about that new view. Hah!
Still, nice day with Susan and Jamie in the headphones. I did a couple of hours of this without audio plays on Monday, having to listen to myself the whole time, without respite. Not doing that again. I can still picture sites I was at when listening to particular scenes in, say, "Minuet in Hell" or hear in my head the Salamander murdering his underlings when looking at pictures from another site. They're connected now, in time, space and memory!
Today I've been out in lovely weather again, looking at rocks and getting eaten alive by big mosquitoes. They're going to build a crime lab up on a slope, and below it is an artists' refuge. I got to talk with one of them -- currently working on a big dragon in styrofoam, otherwise he works in stone, how appropriate -- and he said the first thing he heard about this project was last week, the last day of being able to register complaints.
I didn't say "stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'beware of the leopard'" but that's what crossed my mind.
And anyway, did they do no initial research into the ground conditions at all before they decided to put a five-storey building on the edge of a slope that is already crumbling under its own weight, or just gravity? Sheesh. "Hey, you're the rock experts -- solve this!" Well OK, let's encase the whole lower slope in reinforced concrete then, bet everyone below will be very happy about that new view. Hah!
Still, nice day with Susan and Jamie in the headphones. I did a couple of hours of this without audio plays on Monday, having to listen to myself the whole time, without respite. Not doing that again. I can still picture sites I was at when listening to particular scenes in, say, "Minuet in Hell" or hear in my head the Salamander murdering his underlings when looking at pictures from another site. They're connected now, in time, space and memory!
