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The other thing is
I got a promotion, or rather I got a somewhat different job at the same company. So I am currently wrapping the one up while trying to get a head start on the other (this involves meetings. Lots and lots of meetings. It's a boss-level job, though I am not specifically the boss of anyone ( Read more... ) -
Weekly reading/watching meme
Still no books. Like I maybe read three Cavafy poems. Went to see Pacific Rim, which was very exciting but also disappointing. Part of that is me: I have watched a scientific amount of This Sort Of Thing, can call the reveals before they show up, so as far as I was concerned all that could be hurried along in favour of some non-predictable ( Read more... ) -
Back in Montreal
I've been back since Sunday night of the week before, but work has of course exploded and I was recovering besides. XD; I don't think I've ever taken a vacation during which I was outside so much. If I wasn't hiking around archaeological sites, I was swimming or traipsing up and down endless flights of stairs while carrying a heavy backpack. It was ( Read more... ) -
Weekly reading/watching meme
Haven't updated the read/watch log for a month, but yesterday I was almost able to think about reading a book, so figured I'd do that. XD I mean, I'm still following all the same comics, and I went to see Man of Steel. It has its problems (most of which fall under the rubric of "that shit was dumb, write better draft pls"), but I sort of... don't ( Read more... ) -
Wine-dark sea
In Mykonos: I haven't the gumption to look them up, but there were a few recent articles in which scientists puzzled over Homeric descriptions of colours. How could the Aegean be the same colour as wine, or a bronze mirror? Was puzzled by their puzzlement upon reading, and confirmed in my puzzlement now, because of course the sun shining on the ( Read more... ) -
Weekly read/watch meme
Skipped a week because there really isn't all that much reading/watching going on. I'm either working, running condo-related errands, or at MUTEK. I carry a few comics in my bag so I have something to do during intermissions and subway rides, but that's it. (And even then I mostly play Candy Crush or Blendoku. XD;)
Books bought:
* I-Ching: nice ( Read more... ) -
Star Trek, meme
Went to see it twice: once with group of friends (Trekkie), once with sororial unit (non-Trekkie). Will write it up for the weekly read/watch meme, probably.
( Spoilers, but everyone who means to has seen it methinks. ) -
Weekly reading/watching meme
Books:
Not much this week. Got through a few more chapters of the Mark Atherton since I posted last, IIRC; am about halfway through that one now. My best reading experience this week was actually an interior design photobook called New Small Apartments, in a nice thyme-scented bath with a campari soda. XD I've never wanted a big house -- it feels ( Read more... ) -
If anyone was wondering about the medical mystery
It is pneumonia. XD; A very small pneumonia, I am told! Barely a bronchitis really! I have been put on Biaxin for five days and it has not made me sick, so that is already a plus.
I have figured out how to add the footer on a crosspost! Go me! /rollsalot (Original post is here: ( Read more... )