work is ridiculous but molasses is super entertaining
last week when i had my "now you're salaried!" orientation at work, i got a shiny new user id to get into the system, except apparently whoever gave hr the id never bothered to tell it, because there were a bunch of things i couldn't access and a bunch of orientationy things i couldn't do. so today they reimaged my laptop or some such thing, which mostly meant i had nothing to do for six hours while they fixed it except twiddle my thumbs and drain the battery on my phone. (which, ok, one of those hours was lunch, but still.) now i can actually do some of my work, but they still need to fix something or wait for something to make its way through the system or i don't even know, which means tomorrow they'll take the laptop again and do stuff to it. hopefully not for six hours, tho.
today is the ninety-fifth anniversary of the great molasses flood, when 2.3 million gallons of molasses broke free of its holding tank and flooded boston's north end. it drowned people and horses, ripped buildings off their foundations, and covered everything in gooey, sticky molasses. (unsurprisingly, the company that owned the tank was at fault, for shoddy construction.) i love this story - it's so weird. and there's science! to explain how someone can drown in molasses. mmm, science.
as it is wednesday, because i watched criminal minds, reading meme!
What I just finished reading:
same things i finished last week! between last wednesday and today i started the shipping news, by e annie proulx, mostly because i had it, but then i put it aside because...
What I am reading now:
...i bought shadows in bronze, by lindsey davis, which is the second marcus didius falco book. so far it reads a lot like a sequel to the first book in the sense that the plot follows directly from and references (A LOT) that plot. falco's persistent lechery is starting to be kind of creepy, but otherwise i like him and i like the supporting characters and it's still got a really nice, dry sense of humor.
What I'm going to read next:
probably the wind-up girl, by paolo bacigalupi, or the snake stone, by jason goodwin, which apiphile recommended. it's set in 19th century istanbul not constantinople! which just sounds really, really cool. altho i'm still in the market for a nice book about colonial boston, on account of i work in a fairly historical neighborhood. i have a gift card for barnes & noble and a frequent-shopper discount at a local bookstore. i should use them!
today is the ninety-fifth anniversary of the great molasses flood, when 2.3 million gallons of molasses broke free of its holding tank and flooded boston's north end. it drowned people and horses, ripped buildings off their foundations, and covered everything in gooey, sticky molasses. (unsurprisingly, the company that owned the tank was at fault, for shoddy construction.) i love this story - it's so weird. and there's science! to explain how someone can drown in molasses. mmm, science.
as it is wednesday, because i watched criminal minds, reading meme!
What I just finished reading:
same things i finished last week! between last wednesday and today i started the shipping news, by e annie proulx, mostly because i had it, but then i put it aside because...
What I am reading now:
...i bought shadows in bronze, by lindsey davis, which is the second marcus didius falco book. so far it reads a lot like a sequel to the first book in the sense that the plot follows directly from and references (A LOT) that plot. falco's persistent lechery is starting to be kind of creepy, but otherwise i like him and i like the supporting characters and it's still got a really nice, dry sense of humor.
What I'm going to read next:
probably the wind-up girl, by paolo bacigalupi, or the snake stone, by jason goodwin, which apiphile recommended. it's set in 19th century istanbul not constantinople! which just sounds really, really cool. altho i'm still in the market for a nice book about colonial boston, on account of i work in a fairly historical neighborhood. i have a gift card for barnes & noble and a frequent-shopper discount at a local bookstore. i should use them!