Bald-Faced Sloth People
Two successive nights of insomnia have left me feeling antisocial and unproductive. Also, weird dreams about walking through winter streets in Buffalo, NY, where I was responsible for building a sort of chain lift for cars on steep hills.
However, I did manage to hammer my social self into place long enough for a pleasant lunch with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melskunk, who is newly returned from An Adventure on The Continent. There were Teutonic Knights, castles, and moonlit sword battles on the leaded roofs of Opera Houses.
So I assume, anyway.
Conversations withmelskunk are always cool. Today, we talked about constructed languages. I asked her about one she'd created to write a poem gift for bard_bloom and beetiger.
Her: "It had colour modifiers to alter emotional context." (Or words to that effect)
Me: "So, it was a language for, like, octopuses or celaphapods?"
Her: "Oh, no, that was different. This was for a race of giant sloths with bald faces that could change colour."
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I can tell it's going to be a bad summer. I'm already sticking my head in coolers at the convenience store, and craving enormous glasses of ice water. Smog alert tomorrow, too. Joy.
But, I am glad to be home. :)
However, I did manage to hammer my social self into place long enough for a pleasant lunch with
melskunk, who is newly returned from An Adventure on The Continent. There were Teutonic Knights, castles, and moonlit sword battles on the leaded roofs of Opera Houses.So I assume, anyway.
Conversations with
melskunk are always cool. Today, we talked about constructed languages. I asked her about one she'd created to write a poem gift for bard_bloom and beetiger.Her: "It had colour modifiers to alter emotional context." (Or words to that effect)
Me: "So, it was a language for, like, octopuses or celaphapods?"
Her: "Oh, no, that was different. This was for a race of giant sloths with bald faces that could change colour."
***
I can tell it's going to be a bad summer. I'm already sticking my head in coolers at the convenience store, and craving enormous glasses of ice water. Smog alert tomorrow, too. Joy.
But, I am glad to be home. :)
