I spent a great morning today drinking tea, watching Supernatural, reading, enjoying feline company, and taking some pictures. I'd recently pushed the furniture in my room around a little bit, and I think it works better than before. There seems to be more space.

( My room as it looks now )

( Cats wrestling! )

( For the loan of a flagpole and two dozen cups... )

Pavement Stones
(ca. 1986)

This is the time when pavement stones
Won't be ripped out but put in.-

As I wander down the street,
My eyes on the pavement, my mind deep in thought,
The grey stones in swinging semicircles
Entice my foot to stride on.

Circling, dancing their silent pattern
They draw my glance away, ahead;
Their frozen rhythm fascinates me, and inspires
My mind, my foot, my heart.

When afterwards dead concrete begins again
I look back at the cobblestones, alive underfoot,
These stones, mild in the sun, darkened with rain or
Shining like jewels with frost.

There once was a man who paved this street.
Hours and hours he sweated over his labour,
Arranged the heavy stones as he though best,
Then looked back on his work with pride.


I was reminded of this just now as I was watching the building site orcs pave what used to be our first back courtyard with cobblestone paths.-

I caved in.

I took my little foldup computer the the coffee table and have now ensconced myself between laptop, TV, and sofa.

So I can stay in Milliways and watch 'Lost' at the same time.

Nothing can induce me now to ever get up again. Or something like that.

Now I've got that digital camera, I can't stop taking pictures...

Yesterday, I took some of my friend nazgul_nr_5 wearing her new Jedi outfit, which she needed to get it certified by the semi-official Star Wars costuming group. Apparently, there is such a thing - George Lucas understands fandom, it seems, quite unlike She Who Must Not Be Named and then some...

Anyway, during that photo session, I captured a few impressions of what Jedi Knights do while off duty...

( Ever wanted to see a Jedi in socks? )

Sometimes, when I say "icons", I mean this:

( Actual Icons )