Comments on: horribly moving to-do list http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2007/10/21/horribly-moving/ "bringing you all the news that's fit to mistrust" Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:54:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: oleoptene http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2007/10/21/horribly-moving/#comment-15373 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:22:17 +0000 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2007/10/21/horribly-moving/#comment-15373 I do like the edited version ever so much more -- hey we were also zoologically inclined yesterday! Only we did pay outrageous amounts to see the enslaved animals. Portland's zoo does have a conscience-relieving conservatorial bent. It was raining lightly off and on (this is the first place we've ever lived where 20% chance of showers means showers 20% of the time!), but still a lovely zoo experience, perhaps for the presence of lots of very tall trees. The final experience was getting to hold little cups of juice in the lorikeet exhibit and having the birds land on your wrist and hands to drink from the cups and this was completely thrilling to my kids who are now going to grow up even more ecologically conscious, right? And I am so delighted to be on your list but find communication by scrabulous so amusing that I hereby forbid you to feel beholden on the email front if that were to feel like one more pressure not to play word games. I also amuse myself by envisioning the ultimate in multitasking: using words to St. Vincents in a scrapulous game that somehow qualifies as your surrealist art object when you print it out and handwriting literary magazine rejections on photocopies of this with some explanation that this is the standard to which you now hold creative and literary efforts... I do like the edited version ever so much more — hey we were also zoologically inclined yesterday! Only we did pay outrageous amounts to see the enslaved animals. Portland’s zoo does have a conscience-relieving conservatorial bent. It was raining lightly off and on (this is the first place we’ve ever lived where 20% chance of showers means showers 20% of the time!), but still a lovely zoo experience, perhaps for the presence of lots of very tall trees. The final experience was getting to hold little cups of juice in the lorikeet exhibit and having the birds land on your wrist and hands to drink from the cups and this was completely thrilling to my kids who are now going to grow up even more ecologically conscious, right?

And I am so delighted to be on your list but find communication by scrabulous so amusing that I hereby forbid you to feel beholden on the email front if that were to feel like one more pressure not to play word games. I also amuse myself by envisioning the ultimate in multitasking: using words to St. Vincents in a scrapulous game that somehow qualifies as your surrealist art object when you print it out and handwriting literary magazine rejections on photocopies of this with some explanation that this is the standard to which you now hold creative and literary efforts…

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