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Most beautiful day ever out there. World Trade Center weather (I've got to stop calling it that) but perfect temperature and bright blue sky with no clouds at all. Makes me sad I'm really not up to taking a horse out on the park trails yet, but still a better day to ride than the awful humidity and impending storm of my last lesson.

Watched disc two of Hornblower -- too fucking delightful, and I love how funny last night's thread about it got.

Amusingly Netflix seems to be all about me catching up on TV series my schedule has never allowed me to follow -- so finally all of Babylon 5, in order! Yay. Also, finally going to see the Mists of Avalon miniseries, which I heard was craptastic, but that's okay (as an aside: now that Morgaine has told Avalon to go fuck itself, the book is annoying me a lot less, although I am in danger of writing rude fic paraody of the whole thing in the style of Troy in 15 Minutes.).

I have to curl my hair tonight because of the commercial audition tomorrow. I'm not going to get emotionally involved, but I really could and really hope I get it. Career aside, it would be a financial godsend.

That's all really.

Comments

[irish-rose25.livejournal.com]

Hate to disappoint you, but Marion Zimmer Bradley beat you on the parady. She has a book called "Firebrand" about Troy, told of course from Kassandra's point of view mainly. If you like MoA, you'll like this, if not....avoid it.

However...I'd read your version too! =oD

Tangentally Speaking

[lanthinel.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Troy from Kassandra's point of view, there's also Christa Wolf's Kassandra, available in translation. It's an interesting read and take on the events of the Illiad and Agamemnon, presented in a secularized (non-mythical in the sense of the gods and so forth) manner. I don't think it's something everyone would enjoy, but Kassandra is one of those characters who doesn't get a lot of screen time, unfortunately (in regards to the tales of the Trojan War; obviously she's the main character of this book), so you read what you can find.