*thunderous* who's got my a wind in the door? give it back!

not very good at doing thunderous. well give it back anyway!

su-lin says a drove of dragons is utterly deplorable although a drive of them would work. she also points out that charles wallace didn't actually use the correct collective noun. he merely tried out different words, including "a dollop" which made all of us laugh. *mime ladling* would you like some dragon with your lamb, sir?

heath hutto offered weyr while julian opines clutch. the latter was voted down by yen and su-lin who says not unless these dragons are still in their eggs.

my cousin winnie found a cluster of snail eggs in a disused flowerpot this morning. they are white and slightly translucent and look, in fact, exactly like sago balls. su-lin does not permit me to write further.

uncannily enough when i tried to google a collective noun of dragons what i got back was the wonderful alan robson instead. admittedly his essay was of no help but i am reminded how much i enjoy his sci-fi essays although my acquaintance with the genre is pitiful.

i suddenly recall an injustice done to hemingway on addy's birthday.

choonping on why he doesn't like robert heinlein: "his prose is v masculine, i imagine hemingway being like that. upon which i sputtered "starship troopers is like hemingway?!" while addy put a restraining hand on me.

hmph.