Unexpectedly free afternoon
Feb. 16th, 2005 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayhapYou know, I'm totally in favor of classes being cancelled on dreary, rainy days.
It just helps if we get an email about it first.
But hey, I am back in my room and not too damp, plus I have this package from my mother that arrived today, so I have the Aladdin DVD and raspberry dark chocolate and a bunch of different lotions and a colander and all kinds of fun stuff. Yay!
I also have my very own domain now: http://www.pinchofnutmeg.net This is very exciting to me, as I have always wanted my own domain name, since I was an ickle webdork, and now I have one, and it is mine, mine, all mine!
Er. Yes. I have a very exciting placeholder up now. And my fanfic is here now.
It just helps if we get an email about it first.
But hey, I am back in my room and not too damp, plus I have this package from my mother that arrived today, so I have the Aladdin DVD and raspberry dark chocolate and a bunch of different lotions and a colander and all kinds of fun stuff. Yay!
I also have my very own domain now: http://www.pinchofnutmeg.net This is very exciting to me, as I have always wanted my own domain name, since I was an ickle webdork, and now I have one, and it is mine, mine, all mine!
Er. Yes. I have a very exciting placeholder up now. And my fanfic is here now.
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Date: 2005-02-17 05:56 am (UTC)Oh, also, I notice that you just read Perdido Street Station. What did you think of it? I was assigned it in an English class a couple of years ago, and enjoyed it, with some caveats - but I'm always curious to see what other people have thought of it.
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Date: 2005-02-18 10:40 pm (UTC)Yeah, I really enjoyed it, too, and I lent it to a friend when I got back to NY, but still ... It definitely kept my mind off the mind-numbing boredom and the ear-popping pressure, not to mention the apologetic but still extremely annoying young man in my lap the entire way back from Scotland, though, so I wouldn't complain too much. ;)
Sounds like a fun class, anyway. Did you read other cool stuff?
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Date: 2005-03-09 02:51 pm (UTC)Oh, and we also read The Left Hand of Darkness, which has since become one of my top 3 favourite books (Pride and Prejudice and the Sherlock Holmes canon are the other two).
I took another class later with the same prof, and read some other very weird things. This one was the strangest, and it's about (surprise) a voyage to Arcturus. It was originally published in 1920 and is really proto-SF, I guess. But it was certainly an interesting read, although it left me thinking 'huh?" at the end.
/yay for belatedly replying to comments!
//sad that I have no suitably bookish icon
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Date: 2005-03-10 04:43 am (UTC)I had been meaning, in a vague way, to read that book for a while now, but with a recommendation like that I intend to do it immediately! Yay for spring break ...
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Date: 2005-03-11 05:32 am (UTC)Also, since you are a Sherlock Holmes fan, I'm going to rec you something else. I just picked up a book at the library called 'Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years', a collection of short stories about the time between Holmes's disappearance at the Reichenbach Falls and his miraculous reappearance in London. I've read the first four already, and there is one story that has made it worth reading, called "Water from the Moon" by Carolyn Wheat. I hope the rest of it is also good. I've liked it a lot more than I like a lot of other non-canon Holmes material.
Oh, and it's edited by Michael Kurland, so you know who to look it up under, if you decide to check it out.
/reallybig Holmes geek :D
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Date: 2005-03-17 07:30 pm (UTC)