Thursday full of zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

With last night's walking I hit Rauros Falls and then some. I'm now already five miles on my way to Isengard. Go me! But ye gods I'm tired. I'm slowly getting back into a normal swing of things sleep-wise, but I'm still very short on sleep and I can feel it. My brain is essentially mush, and I'm in quite a bit of need of a weekend of sleeping in, that's for sure. I apparently am even spacy enough that I forgot to change the cat box, and Polly expressed her displeasure with this all over the nice poster with photos that we'd made for solarbird while she was in the ICU. :( Guh! I'm hoping I can get it together enough tonight to get our new tenant moved in at MurkSouth.

As of tomorrow it will be two full months without any word from Bantam on Faerie Blood, and five days after that it'll be two full months without any word on Lament of the Dove. mizkit says that six weeks after submission is a good time for a polite note with another SASP requesting a confirmation of manuscript receipt, and that she herself has had similar troubles wherein a publisher just totally spaced on sending her her "we got your manuscript" postcard back. I think I'll give Bantam a few more weeks before sending them a note.

I forgot to mention in the general crunch of hospital-related posts that one of the things that I did while hanging out at Harborview was read two things: Donna Andrews' Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos (which is a fabulous title) and Kathy Reichs' Deja Dead (which had been recommended to me by raise_a_jar).

Picoreview on the flamingos: not quite as strong as the previous two in that series; it took a bit to get its feet under it, and at least at first I felt like there was way too much dialogue and not enough exposition. But once it got its feet under it it was fine.

Picoreview on the bones: I liked that book a lot better than the TV show which is ostensibly based on this series of novels. This Temperance Brennan, unlike the one on the show, does not make my teeth grate with annoyance. And it's obvious to me, now that I've actually read one of these novels, that the only thing that the show has in common with the series is a character named Temperance Brennan who makes her living studying bones. Everyone else in the TV show cast seems to have been made up for the TV show, and plus, the TV show is set in D.C., while the books are set in Quebec. Or at least the first one is, anyway. Long story short, I liked the novel way, way more than I liked what I saw of the series.

Perhaps once things have finished settling down from the hospital adventure, I will be able to resume regular reading and longer review posts!

Wednesday afternoon and evening miles: 3.8
Thursday morning miles: 1.4
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1314
Miles out of Rivendell: 856
Miles out of Lothlórien: 394
Miles out of Rauros Falls: 5
Miles to Isengard: 479