Staggering back online

[annathepiper]

Back at work again this morning. Let's see if I can make it through the week without any surgeries, flu, meteors falling on my car, exploding cats, or any other adventures, shall we?

I'm armed with Dayquil, cough drops, and caffeine, and am barely functional. I have also discovered that at least one of my teammates has also caught the flu--from me, I'd presume. Most of the rest of the team still seems fine, at least. I've also rescheduled tomorrow's dental appointment since I figure that it would be polite to not cough all over the nice person cleaning my teeth for me. Also, postponing it till after the end of my contract means I can go in at my leisure and not have to worry about rearranging my work hours.

Over the weekend I got back enough brain to read Hidden in Sight, the 3rd book in the Web Shifter trilogy by Julie Czerneda--the one she signed for me at NASFiC. Satisfying read! Not quite what I was hoping for in terms of a resolution to that trilogy; in fact, it didn't really feel like the resolution of a trilogy at all, but rather, just the third book in a series. I also don't quite think my read did it enough justice, given that my flu-ridden brain was able to only skim big chunks of it. But I'll need to get my copy of the first of this series back from jessicac and give it another pass through before I can really absorb the series as a whole. Overall, though, I think that A Thousand Words for Stranger remains my favorite Czerneda, with the standalone In the Company of Others currently duking it out in my brain with Survival for second favorite.

spazzkat got Real Genius and the original Ocean's Eleven over Netflix, and we watched those on Saturday; they were fun. The latter was particularly entertaining, since I'd never seen either it or the modern remake. With all the Technicolor glory and the 1960's feel to it, I kept expecting Elvis to come into every single scene. So did solarbird. It was funny. ;) And last night, we knocked another episode of Lost off the queue so's we can try to get caught up before the new season starts.

And Dara is downloading episodes of Charlie Jade. Yay!

Days until release of The Hard and the Easy: 29
Days without a rejection letter from Luna: 3 months, 17 days

Comments

[waysofseeing.livejournal.com]

You should check out the modern remake of Ocean's Eleven. It's stupid fun. George Clooney doing his impersonation of the young Cary Grant, Brad Pitt as Paul Newman, and Elliott Gould as himself.

[annathepiper]

The remake is on the Netflix queue, indeed. :) spazzkat wanted to see the original before we watched the remake.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

"A girl's got to have her standards." :-)

[annathepiper]

Hee!

[jessicac.livejournal.com]

I'll try and drop your book off this week after work one night. Thanks for loaning it to me!

[annathepiper]

You're very welcome. I hope you enjoyed it. :)

[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

As mentioned above, Ocean's 11 is, indeed, a lot of fun. Ocean's 12 has some very painful spots, though, sadly. Arg.

[annathepiper]

I'd heard that the sequel wasn't nearly as fun as the first one, yeah (counting the remake as the 'first one', here). But we'll see what happens! I'm going to be amused to see how they update the caper to account for a modern-day setting.