stoneunturned ([info]stoneunturned) wrote,
@ 2005-08-16 20:20:00
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trial run
Not sure this icon will do - but it has Meaning.



Today and yesterday have lived up to the august Augusts of the North that I know. Fresh and sharp, the world clarified and strengthened even as the summer dies. I woke up this morning and it felt as though I were returning to high school. God knows I'm glad I'm not, but even so, something about the cool air and sleeping under a blanket and waking up early early recaptured slightly slightly what it was and meant to follow that morning routine. How is that I have so utterly lost my grasp on those four years? The are, of course, nothing at all.

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[info]yee245
2005-08-17 12:34 am UTC (link)
HA! I immediately thought "what does iodized salt have to do with anything?" but believe it is supposed to do with the rain in the icon. I'm such a nerd, and after being more of a nerd by googling "iodized salt" in images, I realize that it isn't just iodized salt, but Morton Salt in general.

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[info]sainsha
2005-08-17 02:24 am UTC (link)
I also thought immediately of Morton Salt.

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[info]stoneunturned
2005-08-17 03:24 am UTC (link)
Well, you both thought right. Morton Salt it is.

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[info]yee245
2005-08-17 03:37 am UTC (link)
iodized or regular? and is the icon really supposed to be about morton salt?

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[info]stoneunturned
2005-08-17 10:35 am UTC (link)
Iodized. And I've always liked the picture of the little girl, so it's not really about salt.

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[info]foxfour
2005-08-17 03:19 pm UTC (link)
iodized indeed. else why "when it rains, it pours."

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[info]foxfour
2005-08-17 02:45 am UTC (link)
damn, you describe what it is about new england that keeps me from being able to truly leave - i'm a person of fall, and new england is a land of fall. new england is what keeps me from feeling i can really live in ireland. particularly massachusetts, particularly western massachusetts.

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[info]stoneunturned
2005-08-17 03:26 am UTC (link)
Don't PA falls fall short of a proper New England fall? And while I will speak to the glory of a Massachussets autumn with great patriotism, I must say that those of Vermont are pretty spectacular.

Have you read The View from Saturday?

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[info]foxfour
2005-08-17 03:39 am UTC (link)
they fall short, indeed. i'm fond of my home falls in their special way - rain-fallen leaves along the sidewalks of princeton, oh, love - but new england is special in a whole other way.

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[info]foxfour
2005-08-17 03:40 am UTC (link)
and no, i've not even heard of "the view from saturday".

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[info]stoneunturned
2005-08-17 10:40 am UTC (link)
Bap! Sometimes I don't know how people miss out on such excellent children's literature ... "The View from Saturday" should be required reading, especially for those who attend Swarthmore. It's by E.L. Konigsburg and is about four middleschoolers and is excellent excellent - but there's one bit about fall in it, even though Mrs. Olinski feels guilty for not liking spring because of the lilies. Read it if you get a chance.

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[info]mairinoodle
2005-08-17 01:54 pm UTC (link)
I loved that book! I read it one night during a thunderstorm, and I'll never forget that moment, since the storm sealed it so throughly in my mind.
Falls here are special to me, although not glorious perhaps in the same way as a New England autumn. Early on, very hot dry days that turn everything crispy. Then foggy mornings and rain, then suddenly all the fields have died back and the farm down the road is cooking molasses. It's got to be my favorite season.

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[info]foxfour
2005-08-17 03:18 pm UTC (link)
i'll read it if i can find it... i have strange holes and strange non-holes in my reading. like i have myles na gopaleen where others have salinger.

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[info]duckrabbit
2005-08-17 07:38 pm UTC (link)
Speaking of holes and children's books, have you read Holes?

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[info]foxfour
2005-08-17 07:54 pm UTC (link)
no, indeed i have not.

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[info]duckrabbit
2005-08-17 08:03 pm UTC (link)
It's a pretty cool one. Louis Sachar was my big favorite as a kid, not really for Holes as much as the Wayside School books. (Did anyone else read those? I practically memorized them....)

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[info]foxfour
2005-08-17 08:26 pm UTC (link)
all my friends read them when i was little... but i didn't.

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[info]duckrabbit
2005-08-17 07:38 pm UTC (link)
Hooray for the view from saturday!
Did you ever read From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler? That's the same author, isn't it? (I don't remember many details from either book, but I remember both of them with a great deal of vague fondness.)

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[info]stoneunturned
2005-08-17 09:02 pm UTC (link)
Same author, another gold medal. Koningsburg RULES!!!!

I liked Holes a lot, but it didn't sit quite as well with me as other children's lit. Something about the humor struck me as overly improbable. Still, a good read.

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[info]mere_bagatelle
2005-08-18 04:11 am UTC (link)
I was talking about Mixed-Up Files tonight -- I was walking by the museum with a friend and we were talking about how we used to want to live there.
I read Holes, too, though it was long ago and far away (I believe I read it while on vacation).

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[info]mere_bagatelle
2005-08-18 04:10 am UTC (link)
ooh, just reread that several weeks ago.

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[info]ifyoucantalk
2005-08-17 03:29 pm UTC (link)
I had a typical back-to-school dream last night - oversleeping in weird circumstances and recalling the BB&N friday block schedule in order to figure out which classes I had missed. DEFBAG, DEFBAG - so unuseful these days!

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[info]stoneunturned
2005-08-17 09:04 pm UTC (link)
O!M!G! I was just thinking about DEFBAG today, as I looked at a poster of the alphabet in one of the classrooms at camp (ABCDEFGHIJ...). Ah, coincedence.

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