Full Moon!
There was a most glorious nearly-full moon last night. I'm looking forward to the really full one tonight - though of course it might by then have slipped into just-past-full-moon; the pleasure of knowing which is still to come. :)
(It looks like there's some lovely conjunctions coming up, too - but they'll be early morning… I'm not too sure I can manage that.)
There's absolutely no exciting news in my life;
I'm working on some worthy-but-dull editing;
I tried a no-kneading-needed bread recipe and failed utterly (on the other hand, the naan bread recipe works well);
rambutans are in season and I'm enjoying them very much;
I'm working on not-fanfiction-fiction in the SFF mode, myself, but I'm enjoying seeing the amazing range of Yuletide fandoms in play;
I've listened to the whole of the Silmarillion (at least, I think I have; is it only about 150,000 words long?) and am now wondering how to find again a video clip from about two years ago, of some seven or eight people in costume as Valar;
I read in the New York Times science feed that there's been a recent study, which has revealed that: "In contrast to the simple caveman view of a hunter-gatherer, we found that it requires a tremendous amount of skill, knowledge and training." You don't say! (I mean - that would have been grotesquely patronising even a century ago; does anyone at all now hold a "simple caveman view" - either of "cavemen" or hunter-gatherers?.)
Oh, and I watched the fourth Doctor Who episode in a row, which hasn't happened for some time. I gave up a while back, after the horrible sell-out of Donna Noble, reinforced by the stinking Girl Who Waited episode. But… oh well, Peter Capaldi's usually worth watching, and maybe things have got better. So I'm giving it another try, warily.
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(It looks like there's some lovely conjunctions coming up, too - but they'll be early morning… I'm not too sure I can manage that.)
There's absolutely no exciting news in my life;
I'm working on some worthy-but-dull editing;
I tried a no-kneading-needed bread recipe and failed utterly (on the other hand, the naan bread recipe works well);
rambutans are in season and I'm enjoying them very much;
I'm working on not-fanfiction-fiction in the SFF mode, myself, but I'm enjoying seeing the amazing range of Yuletide fandoms in play;
I've listened to the whole of the Silmarillion (at least, I think I have; is it only about 150,000 words long?) and am now wondering how to find again a video clip from about two years ago, of some seven or eight people in costume as Valar;
I read in the New York Times science feed that there's been a recent study, which has revealed that: "In contrast to the simple caveman view of a hunter-gatherer, we found that it requires a tremendous amount of skill, knowledge and training." You don't say! (I mean - that would have been grotesquely patronising even a century ago; does anyone at all now hold a "simple caveman view" - either of "cavemen" or hunter-gatherers?.)
Oh, and I watched the fourth Doctor Who episode in a row, which hasn't happened for some time. I gave up a while back, after the horrible sell-out of Donna Noble, reinforced by the stinking Girl Who Waited episode. But… oh well, Peter Capaldi's usually worth watching, and maybe things have got better. So I'm giving it another try, warily.
This entry was originally posted at http://heliopausa.dreamwidth.org/46063.html. Please comment here or there.