Full moon - eighth month. :)
Sep. 14th, 2016 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heliopausaI hope I manage to see it rising tonight - of course (of course!) I'm double-booked with a lecture, but still, one can hope. It's Mid-autumn Festival, which has (I'm told) different meanings in different places, but here is for children, with lanterns, masks, presents and parties. For the last few days there's been a buzz of the excitement approaching, and little children seen unexpectedly in party dresses, or carrying boxes of mooncakes home, or selecting with great care their masks at shops or stalls, and this morning there were signs in the community space - one long paper chain strung all across the yard, and slightly squashy rained-on balloons hanging from it at intervals - that there'd been a party there last night (tonight is more for families).
This is also Narnia Fic Exchange time - twenty-three brand-new stories, all beautifully crafted to fit recipients' prompts, and being eagerly devoured as I write. as always, there's a terrific range of stories-wildly cracky, intricate histories, domestic vignettes,full-blown erotica... is there a detective story in there? I bet there is,somewhere! They range right through the Narnia canon, too, from pre-TMN to well post TLB. I've started reading, and will be having lots of fun catching up with all the stories in scattered bursts over the next few days. Recommended!
Otherwise, life for me is plunging into seasonal busy-ness.The rest of this month, and the two following will probably be pretty flat-out. (Shakespeare still to be shoe-horned in there somehow.) But pretty flat-out doesn't mean only work! Expect reports on concerts, - oh, and travel planned for next full moon! Which I've already arranged to be free for, to see rising! How's that for forethoughtfulness! :D
Late addition: I did see the moon, though not rising, and it was looking like the squashy balloons left after the party. The full moon we were celebrating was a calendar full moon, not an astronomical full moon! Real full moon, any day now!
This is also Narnia Fic Exchange time - twenty-three brand-new stories, all beautifully crafted to fit recipients' prompts, and being eagerly devoured as I write. as always, there's a terrific range of stories-wildly cracky, intricate histories, domestic vignettes,full-blown erotica... is there a detective story in there? I bet there is,somewhere! They range right through the Narnia canon, too, from pre-TMN to well post TLB. I've started reading, and will be having lots of fun catching up with all the stories in scattered bursts over the next few days. Recommended!
Otherwise, life for me is plunging into seasonal busy-ness.The rest of this month, and the two following will probably be pretty flat-out. (Shakespeare still to be shoe-horned in there somehow.) But pretty flat-out doesn't mean only work! Expect reports on concerts, - oh, and travel planned for next full moon! Which I've already arranged to be free for, to see rising! How's that for forethoughtfulness! :D
Late addition: I did see the moon, though not rising, and it was looking like the squashy balloons left after the party. The full moon we were celebrating was a calendar full moon, not an astronomical full moon! Real full moon, any day now!
