Two Unrelated Things of Little Importance...
So, I decided to watch The Enemy Within yesterday instead of moving on to "The Spearhead from Space" because I'm just not ready yet. And, in rewatching it, I realized something:
Never mind the fact that the Doctor stole a motorcycle, Grace pointed a firearm at a police officer...! They never really addressed the fact that, because of the Doctor, she no longer has a boyfriend or a job, and that always bothered me a little. But now I realize why - it doesn't matter, because the very next day, she was arrested and sent to prison for a very long time .
And while I was at Goerings yesterday, I bought a copy of Joe Haldeman's Old Twentieth. It was a fairly impulsive purchase - I read The Forever War a couple of years ago, liked it a lot, and then met Haldeman when he came in and talked to my Sci Fi class not once, but twice (he is a supremely cool guy), but, though I usually browse through his books when I'm shopping for new reading material, I never actually picked one up until last night. Something about the combination of being in a proper bookstore for the first time in months and the summary on the cover* made me forget all that stuff about having no money and instead a huge mound of books sitting by my bed waiting to be read.
When I got back from the party I wound up going to, I opened the book to get in a little reading before bed**, and this is what I saw:
Now, I already have a personalized autograph that I got when he came to talk to my class, but this is still one of the coolest things I've ever found in a book.
* "The time machine has become sentient. Obsessed with humanity, it wants Jacob Brewer to enter its confines--and discuss this fragile state of being called life..." I wonder what it was about this that captured my attention...
** Even though I am already reading two other books... I have been really "Ooooh... Shiiiiny thing!" lately.
Never mind the fact that the Doctor stole a motorcycle, Grace pointed a firearm at a police officer...! They never really addressed the fact that, because of the Doctor, she no longer has a boyfriend or a job, and that always bothered me a little. But now I realize why - it doesn't matter, because the very next day, she was arrested and sent to prison for a very long time .
And while I was at Goerings yesterday, I bought a copy of Joe Haldeman's Old Twentieth. It was a fairly impulsive purchase - I read The Forever War a couple of years ago, liked it a lot, and then met Haldeman when he came in and talked to my Sci Fi class not once, but twice (he is a supremely cool guy), but, though I usually browse through his books when I'm shopping for new reading material, I never actually picked one up until last night. Something about the combination of being in a proper bookstore for the first time in months and the summary on the cover* made me forget all that stuff about having no money and instead a huge mound of books sitting by my bed waiting to be read.
When I got back from the party I wound up going to, I opened the book to get in a little reading before bed**, and this is what I saw:
Now, I already have a personalized autograph that I got when he came to talk to my class, but this is still one of the coolest things I've ever found in a book.
* "The time machine has become sentient. Obsessed with humanity, it wants Jacob Brewer to enter its confines--and discuss this fragile state of being called life..." I wonder what it was about this that captured my attention...
** Even though I am already reading two other books... I have been really "Ooooh... Shiiiiny thing!" lately.