Gifts from the gods...

[cybermule]

A large toy balloon landed in my garden some time during the last rainstorm. This alone is enough to make me smile, but better still, it's an Eeyore shaped balloon :D Now I'm not a big Pooh fan - it always reminds me of sappy schoolgirls at with piglet pencilcases. In fact, you could probably take Pooh, Piglet and Tigger, all three, and do something nasty to them with a rusty spike and I wouldn't blink. But I've always had a soft spot for Eeyore, with his philosophically realistic attitude, and his tendency to have a gloomy and secluded corner of the world.

So someone out there has been truly bounteous. Good thing too, as I've spent the day listening to old MP3s as I write my essay. Too much nostalgia on top of a slight downer is a bad thing and Elgar's Cello Concerto always makes me cry in that happy/sad way that good songs tend to do. I've always wondered whether other people get as emotionally affected by music...

Ah well - back to work!

Comments

[papalazarous.livejournal.com]

I didn't mind Pooh n co, but they're now another bunch of hand puppets for the evil Disney empire.

[toxicpixie.livejournal.com]

The wonderful thing about tiggers,

Is that Tiggers are...

Quite flammable, and not at all bullet proof.

*grin*

Nathan, The Toxic Pixie

[kidkarrot.livejournal.com]

Did you check the Eeyore balloon for magical seeds inside before you popped it mercilessly with that rusty spike you keep handy in your garden just for such purposes? Also, remind me of what this current essay is for.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Did you check the Eeyore balloon for magical seeds

No - not yet :( Some magical seeds would be nice. I could either plant them and grow some sort of magical crop, or take them to market and exchange them for a cow.

The essay is part of the linguistics course I've been doing for the past 9 months. It was supposed to just be a general interest, but I might carry on adding modules until I eventually get a literature degree. That way I can stop telling myself that life would be much better if I hadn't done chemistry, and see that instead I could have followed the path of librarian, layabout or McPatty flipper :)