weekend in review
Apr. 22nd, 2007 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonThis weekend was the first chance I've had to catch my breath all month. It was good :)
Some social stuff went on:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
geekchick's birthday at the Multimeat Palace was fun and tasty (mmm, dead animal!), meeting new people and catching up with some I've not seen in a loooong time :)
This morning was Indian buffet with former co-worker E. and his fiancee C. - haha, I've found another Miyake fan!! And ate a metric buttload of Indian food (butter chicken, mmmmm).
Such culinary adventures on a recovering stomach = I am officially never going to eat again, at least not until I get really, really hungry :P
I fell asleep on the sofa reading as I'm making a deliberate effort to read the books I've got in hand.
Continued in Medieval Life in Everyday England, reading (appropriately enough) the chapters on the rural diet.
Also reading Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, which I got out of the library after multiple recommendations and realizing that fear is a major mindkiller of mine in almost every venue of my life. I kinda like it, in that it doesn't try and pretend that fear can be eradicated, but the author's overall optimistic tone doesn't quite resonate with my inner cynic. Don't get me wrong, I can see where I need to be more positive, I'm just not sure her approach is going to the one that breaks through my paranoia(s).
My light reading for breaking up the seriousness above is Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander, the "bisexual Regency romance" that I think I might have linked to previously (?) At any rate, I find some of the descriptive language repetitive (one of the characters "drawl"s so much that I wonder if it's really set in the Antebellum South :P) but the characters are sympathetic and so far the story is solid (and explicit!)
Recently finished: The Ladies of Grace Adieu which I recommend on the strength of the Austen/Dickens like prose and magical "alternative Regency Britian" alone. Besides, there are two stories about magical embroideries, so I couldn't go wrong :P
Started The Amber Spyglass but for some reason am not finding it as interesting as the first 2 in the series. Not sure why, maybe just waiting for Lyra to do something.
Also finished book 4 of the CherryH's "Foreigner" series, which I enjoyed very much because of the plot surprise I didn't expect! This is an odd series, all of them "slow movers" in terms of action but rich in internal dialogue and detail that emphasizes how alien the atevi thought processes are, which makes them more interesting as aliens than simply making them look different.
Crawling along on the tuxedo pants. I hand sewed the waistband and lining while watching multiple episodes of "Mythbusters" (which featured in turn, the tree cannon, the chicken cannon, and the drainpipe human cannon). Maybe it's the lack of challenge, but I've been too lazy to actually put them on and start hemming (besides, televisual cannons, woohoo!)
Some social stuff went on:
geekchick's birthday at the Multimeat Palace was fun and tasty (mmm, dead animal!), meeting new people and catching up with some I've not seen in a loooong time :)This morning was Indian buffet with former co-worker E. and his fiancee C. - haha, I've found another Miyake fan!! And ate a metric buttload of Indian food (butter chicken, mmmmm).
Such culinary adventures on a recovering stomach = I am officially never going to eat again, at least not until I get really, really hungry :P
I fell asleep on the sofa reading as I'm making a deliberate effort to read the books I've got in hand.
Continued in Medieval Life in Everyday England, reading (appropriately enough) the chapters on the rural diet.
Also reading Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, which I got out of the library after multiple recommendations and realizing that fear is a major mindkiller of mine in almost every venue of my life. I kinda like it, in that it doesn't try and pretend that fear can be eradicated, but the author's overall optimistic tone doesn't quite resonate with my inner cynic. Don't get me wrong, I can see where I need to be more positive, I'm just not sure her approach is going to the one that breaks through my paranoia(s).
My light reading for breaking up the seriousness above is Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander, the "bisexual Regency romance" that I think I might have linked to previously (?) At any rate, I find some of the descriptive language repetitive (one of the characters "drawl"s so much that I wonder if it's really set in the Antebellum South :P) but the characters are sympathetic and so far the story is solid (and explicit!)
Recently finished: The Ladies of Grace Adieu which I recommend on the strength of the Austen/Dickens like prose and magical "alternative Regency Britian" alone. Besides, there are two stories about magical embroideries, so I couldn't go wrong :P
Started The Amber Spyglass but for some reason am not finding it as interesting as the first 2 in the series. Not sure why, maybe just waiting for Lyra to do something.
Also finished book 4 of the CherryH's "Foreigner" series, which I enjoyed very much because of the plot surprise I didn't expect! This is an odd series, all of them "slow movers" in terms of action but rich in internal dialogue and detail that emphasizes how alien the atevi thought processes are, which makes them more interesting as aliens than simply making them look different.
Crawling along on the tuxedo pants. I hand sewed the waistband and lining while watching multiple episodes of "Mythbusters" (which featured in turn, the tree cannon, the chicken cannon, and the drainpipe human cannon). Maybe it's the lack of challenge, but I've been too lazy to actually put them on and start hemming (besides, televisual cannons, woohoo!)
