Bookended by crimes!
May. 6th, 2023 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amado1What a day!
I got lightly hate-crimed in the morning; walked to the library; read Yentl; went to lunch with my roommate where we met a trans woman who's part of the Human Library here, so we both signed up to do that as well; ate at the picnic table together; wrote 2K for my novella; finished "Making Faces, Playing God"; explored the whole nonfiction section; read "Thin" about anorexia; walked home; found my scheduled food delivery had arrived 20 minutes earlier than it was supposed to ... and got stolen, ofc XD
Ay, the worst part is we pre-ordered the food at lunch, then saw a Vietnamese food truck on our way home and ALMOST stopped to get some. But we did the "responsible" thing and reminded ourselves we had a food delivery on the way XD I know it was stolen because I had Thriftbooks packages lying on the doormat, and the delivery driver sent me a photo of my food bag right next to those books.
Those books though! Literary criticism on T.E. Lawrence; Lawrence of Arabia: The 30th Anniversary Pictorial History; and the National Portrait Gallery's Lawrence exhibit, in hardcover. That last one is my favorite. It's stuffed full of interesting little tidbits. There's a portrait in there of Lawrence that I've never even seen before, in a sort of Picasso Blue Period style, and there's a section devoted to Henry Scott Tukes' portrait of Lawrence ... I knew there was a Tukes portrait, but I didn't know that it was found at Lawrence's cottage after he died.
The pictorial history seems much less interesting by comparison. But that's only natural because it's not as fun to read about a film adaptation that Lawrence wasn't involved with, when you can just read about Lawrence himself. I love the movie, it's one of my favorites, but still XD
I got lightly hate-crimed in the morning; walked to the library; read Yentl; went to lunch with my roommate where we met a trans woman who's part of the Human Library here, so we both signed up to do that as well; ate at the picnic table together; wrote 2K for my novella; finished "Making Faces, Playing God"; explored the whole nonfiction section; read "Thin" about anorexia; walked home; found my scheduled food delivery had arrived 20 minutes earlier than it was supposed to ... and got stolen, ofc XD
Ay, the worst part is we pre-ordered the food at lunch, then saw a Vietnamese food truck on our way home and ALMOST stopped to get some. But we did the "responsible" thing and reminded ourselves we had a food delivery on the way XD I know it was stolen because I had Thriftbooks packages lying on the doormat, and the delivery driver sent me a photo of my food bag right next to those books.
Those books though! Literary criticism on T.E. Lawrence; Lawrence of Arabia: The 30th Anniversary Pictorial History; and the National Portrait Gallery's Lawrence exhibit, in hardcover. That last one is my favorite. It's stuffed full of interesting little tidbits. There's a portrait in there of Lawrence that I've never even seen before, in a sort of Picasso Blue Period style, and there's a section devoted to Henry Scott Tukes' portrait of Lawrence ... I knew there was a Tukes portrait, but I didn't know that it was found at Lawrence's cottage after he died.
The pictorial history seems much less interesting by comparison. But that's only natural because it's not as fun to read about a film adaptation that Lawrence wasn't involved with, when you can just read about Lawrence himself. I love the movie, it's one of my favorites, but still XD
