suspense! adventure! trousers!

Well, one outta three ain’t bad. ( In which I ramble about queries and response times and suchlike. )

It's likely that a lot of my journal entries will be from Thursday afternoons and evenings, like this one. My work schedule means that while I'm at work laaaate on Thursdays, there are long stretches in which I have little to do. Like this one. About all I can do is stew and wait for the editor to get her act together.

Mmm…stew…

Ragna rok on

Brief plug here for the group Sequentia, who have set pieces of the Icelandic Eddas to music. They take a little getting used to -- chanting and storytelling and odd dissonances are not everyone's cup of chai, but they are damn cool. Especially the entire "Prophecy of the Seeress . . . " the bit about Ragnarok gives me chills.

Also, in this particular poem, there's a passage that I really like, and they've set it beatifully. It's a recital of the companies of dwarves, fashioned out of earth, and ...well... hearing three voices chant "Veigr ok Gandalfr/Vindalfr, Thrain/ Thekker ok Thorinn/ Thror ..." is just damn cool, even if you're not a Tolkien scholar.