The sun came out today!
So yesterday at a team meeting I (we, the team) got an award (with actual $$ attached) for keeping good records so our dept scored 100% on our internal audit process & today I had one of my favorite things because of it: breakfast for lunch. Starbucks serves their breakfast sandwiches all day so I had a ww English muffin stuffed with egg whites, turkey bacon & cheese. And a whoopee pie for dessert.
The best part was that I got to eat it sitting in the SUN and it was WARM.
As if that wouldn’t have been enough, I got to eat that delicious (FREE LUNCH!!) sandwich in the warmth of the sun while reading a good book! Joy Watson’s Among Others is one of the type of books I force myself to read slowly. It’s good & as much as I want to find out how it ends, I don’t want it to end. It’s almost like a love letter to SF writing/writers & even though I haven’t read all the books referenced (or did so such a long time ago I may as well not have - ha! -- just realized I read many of them during the time the book is set, 1979-80! *lol*) it’s been great fun. My TBR list has grown a LOT, and unless the ending sorely disappoints I’ll read more Watson. I wish I had noted where I found this book, but all I know is that it came to the top of my holds list at the library & I’m happy it did.
It’s funny, if I’d read this book last year I may not have liked it so much. It’s a brilliantly-written book in which not much actually happens. I love the characters though &, as Mor would say, I get drunk on the words, so I’m glad I’m reading it now. Beyond the words & the SF (& magic & fairies & South Wales as setting AND character) it has at its core a brave girl who finds herself alone in the world. This is a recurring theme in books I like, & it’s not rocket science to figure out why that would be. Mor is smart & funny & veryvery human & real & I want her to get everything she wants. Even Wim, whom she is not supposed to want and yet does.
In other news, for some reason when I woke up today I felt pretty much myself again & walking/sitting in the sun feels as though it’s locked that into place. I truly hope it has, feeling like last month’s cheese-and-pickle sandwich got old weeks ago. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I did my taxes last night & am very pleased with the results. I’ll be even more pleased in about two weeks.
And that, I’m pretty sure, is all.
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The best part was that I got to eat it sitting in the SUN and it was WARM.
As if that wouldn’t have been enough, I got to eat that delicious (FREE LUNCH!!) sandwich in the warmth of the sun while reading a good book! Joy Watson’s Among Others is one of the type of books I force myself to read slowly. It’s good & as much as I want to find out how it ends, I don’t want it to end. It’s almost like a love letter to SF writing/writers & even though I haven’t read all the books referenced (or did so such a long time ago I may as well not have - ha! -- just realized I read many of them during the time the book is set, 1979-80! *lol*) it’s been great fun. My TBR list has grown a LOT, and unless the ending sorely disappoints I’ll read more Watson. I wish I had noted where I found this book, but all I know is that it came to the top of my holds list at the library & I’m happy it did.
It’s funny, if I’d read this book last year I may not have liked it so much. It’s a brilliantly-written book in which not much actually happens. I love the characters though &, as Mor would say, I get drunk on the words, so I’m glad I’m reading it now. Beyond the words & the SF (& magic & fairies & South Wales as setting AND character) it has at its core a brave girl who finds herself alone in the world. This is a recurring theme in books I like, & it’s not rocket science to figure out why that would be. Mor is smart & funny & veryvery human & real & I want her to get everything she wants. Even Wim, whom she is not supposed to want and yet does.
In other news, for some reason when I woke up today I felt pretty much myself again & walking/sitting in the sun feels as though it’s locked that into place. I truly hope it has, feeling like last month’s cheese-and-pickle sandwich got old weeks ago. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I did my taxes last night & am very pleased with the results. I’ll be even more pleased in about two weeks.
And that, I’m pretty sure, is all.
This entry was originally posted at http://www.dreamwidth.org/12345.html. Please comment either here or there.