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ng mrs mickleson to stfu that or her insufferable lack of spine it s probably the latter next we turn back to walter hartright who talks and talks and talks it s sad to me that marian doesn t get to tell her own kickass part of this story she adds jail breaker to her already impressive title of sherlockian ninja without even betting an eyelash she suggests everything that walter then does and she takes on the chores of their new establishment like a champion while laura sits and recuperates from being in an asylum for three weeks seriously i begin to think that wilke actually was the closet feminist that we all claim him as all the female characters in this book are stone cold clever except for limp laura and all the men are rather useless unless they are traipsing about central america learning how to evade capture by darting around a corner with the obvious exception of fosco evil genius of course laura meanwhile is being told that her little drawings are being sold for money so that she can feel like she s contributing to the family fund when really they re being bought by walter and treasured up this makes my feminist heart rage a little or rather a lottle it s okay to lie to laura but it s not okay to disguise yourself to avoid detection what she went through was undoubtedly pretty horrible mental patient care wasn t and still isn t exactly top notch and laura being laura probably didn t consider that she might be rescued but still she even knows on some level that marian is better than she is she tells walter that she s afraid he ll start to love marian more than he loves her to that i say pssssht marian is too good for you milquetoast hartright take your mental case and leave miss halcombe to a better fate than making you think all her good ideas are your own forever speaking of which my favorite part of this reading was when marian suggests writing to mr fairlie to get the story of what happened at limeridge house because i had already read it hurrah for high context writing walter decides to do something manly and discover percival s seeeeeeeekrit which turns out to be lol parents weren t married and on the way he meets mrs catherick anne s mother who is the living embodiment of this guy when i have changed my mittens i shall be all in black i think i ll ship mrs catherick and mr fairlie for the rest of the novel someone bring me a pesca stat i know i ve read all this before but i forget what happens sometimes it s a giant book posted by tika at 8 27 pm the woman in white part the third 2012 05 22t20 27 00 07 00 tika reading is s m r t comments file under reading is s m r t 21 may 2012 the naming of things i like titles and names our descriptions of things have so much power how often have you had difficulty remembering someone s name because they don t look like a becky or a liz or a peter or a martin freeman i carried a different name all the way through high school and the changing of my name while technically unofficial changed a lot of things in my life especially that people stopped breaking out into song the moment they heard me introduce myself you might think that people breaking into song would be something i enjoyed after all i m a huge fan of musicals i identify deeply with julie andrews characters and i feel pretty strongly that one of the major things missing from my life is a regular and appropriately timed dance break but most people can t carry a tune in a bucket with a lid and i often had to smile awkwardly in that way people with easily punned upon names do as if i d never heard someone make the connection before also i learned a lot about people s taste in music now they just ask me if i ve ever been to the tiki room in disneyland anywhoodle names i like them they are interesting and they are curiously mutable in that they take on the aspects of the things that have the name and also impart their own could fairuza balk have been a jennifer cook sure would she have been an early 90 s gothic icon probably not all this came up because i ve been assiduously avoiding the final discussion of the woman in white on almost all of my book blogs until i finish the third reading so close shut up hartright stabby stab so i m rather desperate for news of the book world so i caught up on neil gaiman s blog today which has far less book stuff than you d think so i tend to just skim it to see if he ll be in town any time soon i collect names and hoard them away because they intrigue me especially literary ones and generally in pairs like jane and elizabeth or mycroft and sherlock or kaylee and simon or the doctor and idris or donna or amy or martha but not rose which is to say it s a good thing that i m not a crazy cat lady thanks only to mr darcy being a finicky isolationist as one might expect or having any children because i d probably be doomed to twins and have to choose and the doctor isn t really an appropriate name for a child i think though that the next time i adopt kittens far far in the future because darcy will live foreverdoyouhearmecat they will be named verity and sydney the answer is 1 yes of course 2 yes i sing along with my own name subbed in for tiki and 3 yes my friends are awesome and sing along with me appropriately all the commas in that sentence are grammatically correct even if they are legion just so you know i understand that an entire blog post leading up to what i will name my future cats probably qualifies me as a crazy cat lady posted by tika at 12 33 pm the naming of things 2012 05 21t12 33 00 07 00 tika help i can t shut up if only life were like the movies comments file under help i can t shut up if only life were like the movies 08 may 2012 the one with actual knitting content so remember when i found my rosebud shawl complete with instructions i ve been working on it pretty steadily and am nearly halfway through the pick up edging then it s only the outer edging to go here s a picture of a finished shawl done by maureen in fargo see those diamond patterns between the center square and the edge i m working my way out from the center and am almost halfway done with the second diamond it takes about 45 minutes to do 2 rounds so please send the people in white coats soon i finally took pictures of the very few knitted things i ve completed this year in a fit of pre christmas spirit i wrapped up yarn for my brothers and stepfather and promised them all socks by june for their christmas presents they re mostly done stepfather socks regia sock something 413 yds stepbrother kai socks regia sock something 395 yds thb s socks are half done and have been dedicated out of the house knitting i ve got a coffee date with nadia tonight so maybe i ll get a few rows in on them over gossip i also spent an evening and several episodes of grey s anatomy binding off the over 400 stitches on my slant shawl that i started in november ella rae lace merino 883 yds this thing is easily 12 feet long i m almost tempted to chop it in half and make it wider maybe if some perfect ribbon for the cut end shows itself i ll go ahead and do that in the mean time it s going to be one of those shawls that snags on everything so many holes twss in the category of failed experiments i finally ripped out my hap shawl somewhere around 1500 yards of knitting gone it wasn t working as intended so i m going to find an actual pattern and follow it the horror i may also over dye that light blue there s something about it that is too twee and i kind of hate it and in other news i ve returned to the possibility of tomatoes last year i got my plants over mother s day but this year i planted earlier and the contrast is pretty clear may 16 2011 may 8 2012 at this rate i might even get tomatoes before august posted by tika at 3 19 pm the one with actual knitting content 2012 05 08t15 19 00 07 00 tika 12 mile quest 12 set those needles free comments file under 12 mile quest 12 set those needles free 02 may 2012 the woman in white part the second so walter hartright has left the building and taken his wimpy mooncalf gazing self off to who knows where actually i know london then central america to draw stuff for an expeditionary expedition to get over laura and thank goodness say i don t let the gangplank hit you on the way up then mr gillmore the family s lawyer takes up the reins of the narrative he is the epitome of the british gentleman lawyer gruff and opinionated and avuncular which actual uncle fairlie is not of course is that juxtaposition or dichotomy or just ironic i can t tell anymore but he does say a few things that make me laugh 1 laura looks like her father but acts like her mother conversely marian looks like her mother stop and think for a moment which sister is the ugly one for a brief second i think maybe wilkie forgot which was whom in that giant noggin of his 2 mr gillmore is very much afraid that mr hartright is going wrong also there are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do they can t sit over their wine they can t play at wist and they can t pay a lady a compliment if hartright hadn t been so busy going wrong maybe gillmore could learn him a thing or two eh eh elbow 3 gillmore is served chilled port by a servant who should know better for whatever reason this made me hoot with laughter apparently port should not be chilled i have no idea i drink wine out of a box then gillmore s huffy self gets replaced by marian to the sound of trumpets and the waving of flags i just love marian who can t love a victorian who thinks elizabeth i is highly overrated yes there re some strange sounding lovey bits between her and laura i think sarah waters is probably a big fan of this book but her dedication and loyalty and bad assery cannot be underestimated as we shall see brace yourselves my beauties there are a lot of italics coming your way first laura tells percival that she will marry him if he still wants to marry her but that she loves someone else then laura is all i m going to sacrifice myself on the altar of whatever this is and marry sir percival no matter what which i may be a modern girl but why not just leave martyrs bother me also if the guy loves you and you tell him you re in love with not him he ll be jealous because that s how that emotional situation works if he is not jealous then he is not in this for love especially if you are an heiress and you re free to pursue your penniless sitar player two for sundays please on the eve of laura s marriage marian has the unenviable duty of explaining something about the way the world works to sweet innocent laura is this the infamous lay back and think of england dear speech marian couches it in terms of polluting innocence so probably and then marian pours out her heart to her diary saying basically surely percival s not a dick surely i ve done the right thing by pushing her into this marriage instead of saying let s all be poor and marry hartright then she says i hardly know myself in the character of sir percival s warmest friend then five lines later says i hate sir percival thank you mr collins for reminding us that within every woman of 26 is the 16 year old petulant child she used to be but you know what is so sweet mrs vesey the cabbage brain made laura a shetland shawl on the sly as a wedding gift as someone who is attempting the same thing let me tell you it s no mean feat plus knitting content i ve been working on stuff not fast enough moving on h okay so percival and laura go off on their honeymoon and they bring back count fosco and his wife eleanor fosco is the creepiest of creepy creeps he s huge and fat and wears womanish colors and has the lightest footsteps of everyone ever so that he s continually creeping up on people but never mind about closing the window when you re talking secret stuff just speak low and he has tamed some mice and they re continually crawling about his person ick one night he goes on and on about how good criminals don t get caught and no one bats an eyelash then eleanor says something about listening to men like a good woman and marian points out that she eleanor used to think that freedom of opinion was super important which is a way of saying that she eleanor was a disagreeable harpy before her marriage and no one bats an eyelash nary a neuron is fired percival makes some comment about laura making a virtue of necessity by marrying him which translates to modern talk as you weren t a virgin when i married you which i guess doesn t translate all that well to modern talk because virgins lol and shizz goes down and anne catherick shows up and rabbits off to who knows where and percival corners laura in the boathouse which if it had been hartright or written by daphne du maurier would have led to victorian sexy times but instead leads to laura telling him everything instead of lying to her shit talking secret keeping husband then marian turns into a sherlockian ninja and starts putting together clues from things like a boot scuff in the sand or a bit of fringe at a fork in the road and scampering over rooftops to hear fosco and percival talking about how to get laura s money at which point i am shrieking at my ipod that of course he was in it for the money see above re jealousy the end of part 2 so what have we learned dear readers that port should be chilled men of this age are useless and laura is while not quite as ridiculous as previously thought still a milksop bore i miss mr fairlie and pesca maybe they ll show up in the next section posted by tika at 5 38 pm the woman in white part the second 2012 05 02t17 38 00 07 00 tika reading is s m r t comments file under reading is s m r t 23 april 2012 my brain on post thesis turn in day last night i turned in my final presentation powerpoint and presentation outline for my master s in teaching there are still some things to do i need to finish my teacher preparedness assessment 4 which is the write up portion of the lesson i video recorded back in june and i need to actually present my action research to the school panel so i m not done done but i m done for a day or two and there are no more hard deadlines hurrah today i ve been tidying my house and thinking about the two wedding shawls i need to finish this fall when my cousin perfect phillip announced his engagement to his adorable now fiance last month i decided immediately that the rosebud shawl i started last year would be my wedding gift to her an added bonus to me as a fairly scattered knitter is that the shawl is somewhere around 30 finished right now however back at the end of december i went on a massive house cleaning streak and put everything away the problem with this is that i am an extremely visual person which is a nice way of saying that i m pretty much an out of sight out of mind type so all of those carefully packed boxes under my bed they re there to keep massive cat hair bunnies from taking over my room all those stacks of paper that i tucked away in 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