A longish day...

[msfledermaus]

I had lots of running around today...uniony stuff cropping up, hanging out from time to time in the special show at work watching the contract folks, etcetra. And of course every time the computer at work was actually free, the network was down. Pfeh.

So I'm at home posting like I should have done this morning, and e-mailing the Union rep and other important things. I just looked up dropsy online, just for the hell of it. (Yes, I am weird. I keep running into references in old history books.) I have a new Ono-no-Komachi poem that's on a scroll in the Japanese collection at work. It's such a refreshing break from my own smart-ass attempts at poetic forms...for example:

Ms Komachi's...

I wonder for whom
the blossoming golden lace waits
on Matsuchi Mountain?
He must have promised
to return in autumn...

Mine...

Hard fruit on the bough
stings as it thumps down on my
unsuspecting head...


So there you are...

Comments

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

I never looked up 'dropsy' until you just posted. It sounds painful and icky.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Yep, it grossed me out as well. It's amazing how many historical crowned heads of Europe apparently had some kind of edema at some point. eeew.