tell me there's a reason for every stupid season

[jazzfish]

It's not just that there's fog. It's not just that I couldn't see the other side of 7 when I came in this morning, or that the far end of the parking deck has been wrapped in gauzy grey-white.

It's that it's late November, and several spindly maples (?) in the lot below are still clothed in harvest-fire leaves, and they can't help but glow through the fog.

Last Monday morning the stretch of grass/creek/powerline on Braddock Road faded into nothingness about a hundred feet out.

I've missed this so much.

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[rbandrews]

Seeing this post reminds me that I need to talk to you. Are you going to be online tonight?

Nothing ominous, just a change of plans for Christmas

[jazzfish]

Sadly no, although uilos may be. I might be online lateish tomorrow night.

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

The fog spurred me to recite poetry to one of my minions. This rarely goes well (who really wants an overlord, regardless of how benevolent they are, breaking into verse?). When I started in on the Prufrock, thinking of the yellow fog that rubs against the windowpanes and the way it curls around the house and goes to sleep, my minion looked at me like I was even less stable than usual when I ushered them to a meeting by saying "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky, like a patient etherized upon a table."

It's hard to live a poetic life when everyone else is leading a critical one.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Just for the record, I would love to have overlords who quoted Eliot.

[nixve.livejournal.com]

oh, I adore that poem so much!

[jazzfish]

I'm gonna have to side with thanate on that one. As long as there's no singing.

LINUS: Get me tickets to whatever Broadway show nobody can get tickets to.
MAX: The most popular show is a musical, sir.
LINUS: That's fine.
MAX: You are aware that this means the actors will spontaneously break into song and dance numbers?
--Sabrina

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

I will admit that when Annoying Minion has been truly pissing me off, I've thought about telling her "Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought", but I believe it would be wasted on her.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

We didn't have too much in the way of fog up here, but the light near sunset was so dark and yellow that I had to go out an check that we weren't in danger of tornado winds or anything. This was also quite pretty.