How Lovely It Is To Be Lovely ONE

[mallorys_camera]

Justine finally emailed me, so I can take being snubbed off my list of grievances and give my full attention to the coming snow-pocalypse—which is now up to 18 inches in every forecast, predicted to be light, fluffy, Currier-and-Ives snow, which is better than ice because there is less chance the power grid will go down.

I nagged Icky to get driveway plowing lined up when the storm finally ends.

I'll still have to dig out my car, which will be a pain in the ass, but doable.

The storm should be manageable, so long as we're not looking at a prolonged interval where the power fails.

I told the kiskas they needed to draw lots to see which one of them I'm going to sacrifice to the Power Grid Gods. But they are ignoring me.

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Other than that, got all my errands done yesterday. I am more likely to eat myself to death than to starve during the Coming Storm. Worked out very strenuously in an effort to exhaust all those Noradrenaline-secreting neurotransmitters! Came home, did a speed reread of Mary Lovell's The Mitford Girls and watched movies: Rental Family & Sentimental Value.

Rental Family is a very slight film, but it's about the social stand-in biz, a Japanese business model that deeply intrigues me. So I enjoyed it.

Sentimental Value is Ingmar Bergman for the 21st century a/k/a the Age of Infinite Content & Zero Attention Span. I kinda/sorta enjoyed it.

Tried to watch Marty Supreme & failed: I liked Uncut Gems a lot, so I was willing to forgo my strong, visceral aversion to Timothée Chalamet, whose head is so undersized for his body that he reminds me of those shrunken-head football players in the original Beetlejuice. But I just couldn't get into it.

The Mitford Girls is an unsatisfactory biography, but it's the only Mitford bio that's still in print. As previously noted, I am a huge Decca fan-girl, and I quite understand why Decca completely froze out the Hitler-loving Diana for 50 years. Mary Lovell does not. Mitford biographers in general seem to go very easy on Diana. Was it because she was so physically beautiful?



Dunno, but I fuckin' loathe her.

"How lovely it is to be lovely one," Diana once remarked, a comment her novelist sister Nancy promptly snagged & incorporated into The Pursuit of Love.

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I did absolutely no useful work whatsoever yesterday.

But I should try to advance Chapter 5 today.

Comments

[halfmoon_mollie1]

Beautful and wasn't she rich? I know her first husband was a Guiness, and her second was a baronet.

[mallorys_camera]

Her second husband, Oswald Mosley, was the leader of the UK's Fascist Party just before WW2. Adolph Hitler was a guest at their wedding.

[lethe1]

I told the kiskas they needed to draw lots to see which one of them I'm going to sacrifice to the Power Grid Gods. But they are ignoring me.

How dare they! There is only one thing for it, you will have to sacrifice them both.

Does Justine emailing you mean that you are still in the running for the Trumansburg house?

[mallorys_camera]

Presumably. To tell you the truth, though, I think my overreaction here has made me think the T-burg household is not a good fit for me.

[asakiyume]

Yeah! I'm realizing my ability to carry a vicarious grudge is quite strong.

[mallorys_camera]

Uncertainty is hard for me to deal with. It took her four days to get back to me directly, and while four days is not a lengthy interval, I suspect I'd fit better with people who have faster response times. I mean, just to acknowledge she received my communication, no to say yea or nay to tenancy.

[asakiyume]

Yeah: it speaks to a kind of cavalier attitude that one doesn't want--well, **I** wouldn't want, and you either--when it comes to a living situation. One might almost say irresponsible, and you've had enough of that with Icky.

[asakiyume]

FINE but did she explain about the deleted posts? (My anti-ICE rage is leaking out onto other possible targets, clearly.)

[mallorys_camera]

She did not. My guess is that she wants to limit social media exposure.

In any event, I am thinking my overreaction may be a sign that this collective household would not be a great living situation for me.