romance in the age of swimming pools

[threeplusfire]

At one point it was over a hundred degrees outside, and with the heat index climbing at least eight degrees over that mark. I wonder how people lived before fans and ice and airconditioning. What a miserable thought. Some days I am glad I live in the future.

We swam briefly, in a pool with obnoxious children and teenagers on cell phones. Despite the presence of our neighbors, it was good to feel the water. My deltoid muscles ached from yesterday, but swimming has made that feeling disappear.

Our long weekend draws to a close, and it makes me sad to go back to work. Alan and I need independent wealth, so we could pursue a life devoted to the acquisition of Marcos, better muscle tone, and odd recipies. I wonder if I shouldn't perhaps fix up some of those old text files, and write romance novels under a ridiculous pen name. Plaidy apparently was also known as Victoria Holt, and sold scores of period romances set in the time periods where she devoted her more scholarly pursuits. I wonder if I could sell a romance written during the Russian Revolution, or Stalin's Terror. Or perhaps gay wizard romance. Hah.

Comments

[feu-de-fripe.livejournal.com]

or a romance that included three witches and a doofy professor

do you mean marcos the zapatista?
i dont'get it

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

We decided all our household help would go by the name Marco. Hence, we have named our fabulous coffee machine Marco, and when we get a pool there will be a pool boy named Marco and a gardener named Marco.... ;) They will be distinguished by colors.

[feu-de-fripe.livejournal.com]

you are silly

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Alan helped me come up with the idea. ;)

[todfox.livejournal.com]

eposia and I had a discussion about the same topic today -- how miserable it must have been before A/C.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

There are a fair number of modern conveniences I wouldn't like to go without, such as the AC or the indoor plumbing.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

I so want to use that as a title of a book

[delchi.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I could sell a romance written during the Russian Revolution, or Stalin's Terror. Or perhaps gay wizard romance. Hah.

Tempt not an insomniac at 2 am...

Cover (http://www.delchi.net/rasp.jpg)

Back Cover (http://www.delchi.net/rasp-back.jpg)

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I like! Write the book!