I totally brag about you dogsledding and I show my family your postcards, you know. :) I've been on a dogsled once, just for a few minutes, and wow. Really fun! Sled dogs are amazing.
As for the podfic, I'm so sorry if I didn't comment yet on the reading of "The Sweet Hereafter"! I did download it, and I eventually listened to the whole thing while I was away on vacation during the holidays, but I wanted to listen again. It's such a complex story--and with the, er, difficult imagery of Fraser bodyswapping with his dad, not to mention crossing that border between life and death, I need to be in the right frame of mind to listen again. You did a fabulous job as usual, though! I don't think I had ever actually read that story.
I take pronunciation notes in my head for you all the time, still--because I promised to, and because I know you want them, not because I think your readings need any revision, because I really love them just the way they are. I just have to find a way to fit in, time-wise and logistically, the task of sitting down and recording the words for you. I'll get there, though, probably this summer.
I'm starting to fit fannish things in around the edges, these days, and actually I happen to have something for you that I have been planning to post. Typically, I get almost to the point of doing it, and then another deadline rolls around. :/ I have a deadline tonight, but if I can make time to post, I will. Otherwise I will post the thing tomorrow.
And you are so right about the paintings. I just confessed that very fact to my landscape teacher today. Human subjects are what inspire me, and so landscape is kind of just a backdrop to me, as a painter. But I really appreciate beautiful landscapes, I just have not been lined up with the idea that I am somebody who can paint them. With paintbrush in hand, I look at a scene, and I think "Huh? There's nothing there!" So of course the class isn't going as well as it could. *sigh* I am awaiting an epiphany. :)
You have just made my day 1,7482,929 times better, and I think I will listen to lots of your podfic while painting today. {{{Luz}}}
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Date: 2011-02-28 06:44 pm (UTC)I totally brag about you dogsledding and I show my family your postcards, you know. :) I've been on a dogsled once, just for a few minutes, and wow. Really fun! Sled dogs are amazing.
As for the podfic, I'm so sorry if I didn't comment yet on the reading of "The Sweet Hereafter"! I did download it, and I eventually listened to the whole thing while I was away on vacation during the holidays, but I wanted to listen again. It's such a complex story--and with the, er, difficult imagery of Fraser bodyswapping with his dad, not to mention crossing that border between life and death, I need to be in the right frame of mind to listen again. You did a fabulous job as usual, though! I don't think I had ever actually read that story.
I take pronunciation notes in my head for you all the time, still--because I promised to, and because I know you want them, not because I think your readings need any revision, because I really love them just the way they are. I just have to find a way to fit in, time-wise and logistically, the task of sitting down and recording the words for you. I'll get there, though, probably this summer.
I'm starting to fit fannish things in around the edges, these days, and actually I happen to have something for you that I have been planning to post. Typically, I get almost to the point of doing it, and then another deadline rolls around. :/ I have a deadline tonight, but if I can make time to post, I will. Otherwise I will post the thing tomorrow.
And you are so right about the paintings. I just confessed that very fact to my landscape teacher today. Human subjects are what inspire me, and so landscape is kind of just a backdrop to me, as a painter. But I really appreciate beautiful landscapes, I just have not been lined up with the idea that I am somebody who can paint them. With paintbrush in hand, I look at a scene, and I think "Huh? There's nothing there!" So of course the class isn't going as well as it could. *sigh* I am awaiting an epiphany. :)
You have just made my day 1,7482,929 times better, and I think I will listen to lots of your podfic while painting today. {{{Luz}}}