aristophanes

Client finally payed! Yaaay!
And I also finished translating the first act of Beaumarchais' Eugenie. Yaaay!
But there are spooky-ass noises coming from the walls and ceiling and I think it may be that we have a rat in the house. Booo!

I hate it when I seem to be more concerned about someone's spellcast than they are... got a client who contacted me SIX WEEKS AGO about casting a spell for her, she's sent me several panicky emails since, but still hasn't actually just paid me to cast her bloody spell. I've even suggested a few cheaper alternatives, thinking money might be the issue, but she...
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Amazon's got two of my books on sale right now -- Fanny Hill and Conjure Cookbook!

As to my other other translation project, I'm thinking I won't apply for that grant this year. The odds I'll get chosen look more and more slim the more research I do, and despite people's insistence "What have you got to lose?" the answer to that is $25+...
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I actually ate 3 meals yesterday -- weird!

Breakfast: Subway western egg and cheese muffin with jalapeos.
Lunch: Taco Bell volcano taco.
Dinner: spicy California roll tray from Trader Joe's.

This is also interestingly indicative that I've developed a fondness for spicy food.

Other than eating, here's what else I have been about: --

Translating the untranslated plays of de Beaumarchais (specifically, at the moment,...
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Reorganizing my CD collection. Does P.D.Q. Bach belong with the classical music?

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2010/09/06/100906sh_shouts_rudnick

The (fictional) dating site for those who admit they're not up to standards for any normal dating site. I think my favorite piece of the questionairre is --

3. Whats your idea of a great way to spend a Saturday morning?
(a) Grabbing some coffee, reading the paper, and catching a movie, all while sitting on the toilet.
(b) Walking hand in hand through...
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Saw two movies today which I had not seen before: Caddyshack and (the original) Death At a Funeral. I actually didn't see what all the fuss was about Caddyshack. Death at a Funeral was pretty good, though.

And good news! I sold a copy of La Commedia Inglese, so that makes me almost like a real playwright. Though I suppose the thing still was...
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My interest in Jack the Ripper and commedia dell'arte seems to have combined during the night into me dreaming a scenario, which I could only call "Harlequin Ripper." London, 1888: Harlequin writes Columbine a love letter in red ink, full of such poor spelling and crazy metaphors, it gets intercepted and mistaken for one of those "From Hell" letters from Jack the Ripper; and Harlequin's...
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Ughh... you'd think with so many magic-shop "customers" who write to me, saying they want to buy my services, then vanish -- that I should have plenty of free time to get translations done! Somehow that's not the case! In fact they're just piling up faster than I can do anything.

Things I need to translate:

Harlequin, Emperor of the Moon
Complete plays of Pierre...
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My older sister, her two kids (8 and 15) and her boyfriend came out for a few days to visit. The boyfriend in particular we weren't sure what to make of, as the family previously only knew him via his Facebook postings, and those have a tendency to make him seem like he suffers from borderline retardation and/or is some kind of wifebeating hick. In...
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