This past week in review
Oct. 15th, 2006 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo! Been a few days since I last checked in, thanks to avoiding LJ while at work and trying to write (or otherwise being too brain-dead to write, which also means I'm too brain-dead to post to LJ) once I get home. But there hasn't been anything too terribly fascinating to post about this past week anyway, so y'all haven't missed much in the land of Anna.
Capsule summary: Fairly quiet week at work. Forgot to take my Synthroid again on Thursday, which was very annoying, as I'd been trying to get everything stabilized again Synthroid-wise and that didn't help matters much. But things are clicking back into place in my brain now that I'm taking the 150's regularly again. Also, work improved once I finally buckled in and started bringing cans of diet Mountain Dew from home. The market near the Times building stopped stocking diet Dew for some reason, and the absence of my morning and post-lunch Dew at work was making me cranky! But bringing in my own cans solved that problem nicely, and is significantly cheaper besides.
Polly is in much better shape now that she's had quite a bit of the pink antibiotic goop, enough that she's started getting finicky again about eating her food with the medication in it. I'll have to figure out better ways to get her to eat.
I've finished The Art of Deception, by Ridley Pearson, a book I'd picked up way back when I did the Underground Tour with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ravyngyngvar during his visit. They'd been selling this novel in the Underground's gift shop, so I thought what the hell, I'll check it out. It was... meh. Good Seattle-like atmosphere, but it turns out that this was the eighth novel in a series--so here and there I found myself with the usual slight sense of thinking I'd better know what was going on had I read the earlier books. This also caused one very minor but nevertheless present nitpick for me--I don't need much description of a character, but y'know what? I'd like to know before I'm 238 pages into a novel whether a significant character has a distinctive feature like a mustache. A rather bigger nitpick I had with it, too, was the scene where one of the POV characters goes and speaks with an expert on the Underground, and she suddenly starts spewing reams of information at him that read way more like a quote from a lecture or an encyclopedia rather than actual dialogue. I expected it to end with "this description of the Underground brought to you by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. We now return you to your regularly scheduled story, already in progress!" Long story short, if you want to check this out, you might actually want to start with book one in the series.
One little bit of amusement I got out of that novel, though, ties in with another thing I had going on this week. I've been working on a personal quest of trying to listen to everything on my iPod. I've got a huge swath of stuff in my collection that I haven't even listened to even once since ripping it onto the device, so I made a Not Played Yet playlist and have been slowly working my way through it. This week I went through all of my Enya and Loreena McKennitt, my album of various classical works by Grieg, and (and this is where the novel is pertinent) the album Surfacing by Sarah McLachlan. I'd bought that on impulse some time ago, on one of those occasional whims I get to try to expand my musical horizons. And I'd played it before, just not any time recently, so I'd totally forgotten what the album is like. But it was actually mentioned in the novel, which made me go "HEY!" So I had to go ahead and play it.
Next up on the reading queue: Banner of Souls bymevennen, a.k.a. Liz Williams. The next few novels I'll be reading will follow the theme of "Authors Whose LJs I Read". This means karentraviss and matociquala and jimbutcher are all forthcoming. So is The Surgeon's Mate, however. risu has been hungrily devouring my Patrick O'Brian novels lately, having grown ardently fond of Jack and Stephen, and she'll be catching up with me shortly. So I'd better be reading the next one on my To Read shelves soon!
Lost was watched on Thursday, Battlestar Galactica on Friday. More commentary will be forthcoming on the latter.
And last but definitely not least, huge, huge congratulations must go out tokathrynt and llachglin, the proud parents of Lilian Elanor Tewson Heino!
Last Friday miles through Sunday miles: 26.85
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1454.9
Miles out of Rauros Falls: 145.9
Miles to Isengard: 338.1
Capsule summary: Fairly quiet week at work. Forgot to take my Synthroid again on Thursday, which was very annoying, as I'd been trying to get everything stabilized again Synthroid-wise and that didn't help matters much. But things are clicking back into place in my brain now that I'm taking the 150's regularly again. Also, work improved once I finally buckled in and started bringing cans of diet Mountain Dew from home. The market near the Times building stopped stocking diet Dew for some reason, and the absence of my morning and post-lunch Dew at work was making me cranky! But bringing in my own cans solved that problem nicely, and is significantly cheaper besides.
Polly is in much better shape now that she's had quite a bit of the pink antibiotic goop, enough that she's started getting finicky again about eating her food with the medication in it. I'll have to figure out better ways to get her to eat.
I've finished The Art of Deception, by Ridley Pearson, a book I'd picked up way back when I did the Underground Tour with
ravyngyngvar during his visit. They'd been selling this novel in the Underground's gift shop, so I thought what the hell, I'll check it out. It was... meh. Good Seattle-like atmosphere, but it turns out that this was the eighth novel in a series--so here and there I found myself with the usual slight sense of thinking I'd better know what was going on had I read the earlier books. This also caused one very minor but nevertheless present nitpick for me--I don't need much description of a character, but y'know what? I'd like to know before I'm 238 pages into a novel whether a significant character has a distinctive feature like a mustache. A rather bigger nitpick I had with it, too, was the scene where one of the POV characters goes and speaks with an expert on the Underground, and she suddenly starts spewing reams of information at him that read way more like a quote from a lecture or an encyclopedia rather than actual dialogue. I expected it to end with "this description of the Underground brought to you by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. We now return you to your regularly scheduled story, already in progress!" Long story short, if you want to check this out, you might actually want to start with book one in the series.One little bit of amusement I got out of that novel, though, ties in with another thing I had going on this week. I've been working on a personal quest of trying to listen to everything on my iPod. I've got a huge swath of stuff in my collection that I haven't even listened to even once since ripping it onto the device, so I made a Not Played Yet playlist and have been slowly working my way through it. This week I went through all of my Enya and Loreena McKennitt, my album of various classical works by Grieg, and (and this is where the novel is pertinent) the album Surfacing by Sarah McLachlan. I'd bought that on impulse some time ago, on one of those occasional whims I get to try to expand my musical horizons. And I'd played it before, just not any time recently, so I'd totally forgotten what the album is like. But it was actually mentioned in the novel, which made me go "HEY!" So I had to go ahead and play it.
Next up on the reading queue: Banner of Souls by
mevennen, a.k.a. Liz Williams. The next few novels I'll be reading will follow the theme of "Authors Whose LJs I Read". This means karentraviss and matociquala and jimbutcher are all forthcoming. So is The Surgeon's Mate, however. risu has been hungrily devouring my Patrick O'Brian novels lately, having grown ardently fond of Jack and Stephen, and she'll be catching up with me shortly. So I'd better be reading the next one on my To Read shelves soon!Lost was watched on Thursday, Battlestar Galactica on Friday. More commentary will be forthcoming on the latter.
And last but definitely not least, huge, huge congratulations must go out to
kathrynt and llachglin, the proud parents of Lilian Elanor Tewson Heino!Last Friday miles through Sunday miles: 26.85
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1454.9
Miles out of Rauros Falls: 145.9
Miles to Isengard: 338.1
