Calm before the storm?
So, it's ten days since my last post and I am due to start my jury service tomorrow.
I'm quite pleased with how much (paid) work I've gotten done so far this month, in preparation for two weeks of not having anywhere near as much time as usual for it. If I didn't have a possible fortnight of nearly full-time public service ahead of me, and cover for only about twenty per cent of a fortnight's usual workload, I'd be really pleased with how far I am into the month's workload. ;)
That does, of course, mean that I've not had a lot of time for much of anything else, although I did fit in a session with the midweek gaming group this week and find a few hours to read a novella.
A's game of Kuro has finally resumed after a break of about three months, and some very nasty things happened to all our characters this week, as is only appropriate in a horror game. I'll just say that it's an extremely good thing that I'm not too badly arachnophobic, because, eeew, icky...
Michel Faber's The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps is a curious mixture of romance and thriller, with a historical angle coming from its lead being an archaeologist. As someone who knows Whitby reasonably well, at least as a visitor, I wasn't all that impressed by the attempts to evoke the setting, and the romance part was uncomfortably reminiscent of the kind of thing I used to read in my mum's Woman's Weekly decades ago. The mystery part wasn't bad, though. I'm hoping the second novella in the book, 'The Courage Consort', will be better.
I doubt I'll have much time to post again before my jury service is over. Here's hoping that I don't get a stupidly long case which needs me for more than the standard fortnight, or anything too nasty (the thing I'm most dreading is getting a child abuse case...).
I'm quite pleased with how much (paid) work I've gotten done so far this month, in preparation for two weeks of not having anywhere near as much time as usual for it. If I didn't have a possible fortnight of nearly full-time public service ahead of me, and cover for only about twenty per cent of a fortnight's usual workload, I'd be really pleased with how far I am into the month's workload. ;)
That does, of course, mean that I've not had a lot of time for much of anything else, although I did fit in a session with the midweek gaming group this week and find a few hours to read a novella.
A's game of Kuro has finally resumed after a break of about three months, and some very nasty things happened to all our characters this week, as is only appropriate in a horror game. I'll just say that it's an extremely good thing that I'm not too badly arachnophobic, because, eeew, icky...
Michel Faber's The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps is a curious mixture of romance and thriller, with a historical angle coming from its lead being an archaeologist. As someone who knows Whitby reasonably well, at least as a visitor, I wasn't all that impressed by the attempts to evoke the setting, and the romance part was uncomfortably reminiscent of the kind of thing I used to read in my mum's Woman's Weekly decades ago. The mystery part wasn't bad, though. I'm hoping the second novella in the book, 'The Courage Consort', will be better.
I doubt I'll have much time to post again before my jury service is over. Here's hoping that I don't get a stupidly long case which needs me for more than the standard fortnight, or anything too nasty (the thing I'm most dreading is getting a child abuse case...).