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Dec. 30th, 2008 12:12 am- 20:27 Home from new job. Christmas/Solstice loot exchanged, yay! Chocolate and 3rd season Buffy and Battle of the Planets manga FTW! #
Dec. 30th, 2008
So, first day at the new job went quietly; I spent most of it filling out forms and learning where all the relevant info-type pages are on the intranet. I have a small, open workspace, since the place is laid out to facilitate quick communication between everybody. Not even a real cube, really, just a workspace. That's okay. Less space wherein I can leave stuff lying around is probably a good idea.
Teammates took me to lunch at a place called the Shanty, just across the street. That was also nice. Today should be participating in daily meetings now and starting to get filled in on what I need to be doing. Hopefully also, more hardware.
Those of you who typically see me on the MurkMUSH or on the MOO may see less of me during the day as I'll be trying to minimize my Internet usage at the new place; you'll just have to wait to yak at me online. Send me email if you don't see me, and if there's something I just cannot wait to know! ;)
On the way into work I listened to Heather Dale's CD The Gabriel Hounds, a gift to me from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
damara. Note to her: THANK YOU. I really, really liked this disc. Dale's voice is very clear and pure, and there's a great range of styles on the album from sweet and open to gritty and powerful. I need to take another pass through it and tag all the songs I'll want to put ratings on. And appreciate the flutework as well.
So thank you,damara, for that; that was a very nice way to get into my first day on the new job.
Teammates took me to lunch at a place called the Shanty, just across the street. That was also nice. Today should be participating in daily meetings now and starting to get filled in on what I need to be doing. Hopefully also, more hardware.
Those of you who typically see me on the MurkMUSH or on the MOO may see less of me during the day as I'll be trying to minimize my Internet usage at the new place; you'll just have to wait to yak at me online. Send me email if you don't see me, and if there's something I just cannot wait to know! ;)
On the way into work I listened to Heather Dale's CD The Gabriel Hounds, a gift to me from
damara. Note to her: THANK YOU. I really, really liked this disc. Dale's voice is very clear and pure, and there's a great range of styles on the album from sweet and open to gritty and powerful. I need to take another pass through it and tag all the songs I'll want to put ratings on. And appreciate the flutework as well.So thank you,
damara, for that; that was a very nice way to get into my first day on the new job.I was in the mood for mystery, and I thoroughly blame the holiday season as well as having just read the first of the Aurora Teagardens on picking up Shakespeare's Christmas, the third of the five Lily Bard novels. And, as it's turned out, the last of the ones I hadn't read yet (in no small part because it was only recently re-released to paperback).
It's odd to have read the series out of order, and dealing with the oddity of seeing Lily's relationship with Jack Leeds in non-sequential stages; it's all rather Time-Traveller's-Wife-y. Yet it was also oddly satisfying to read this book last of the five--because even though Lily's still in the opening stages of her relationship with Jack here, she gets quite a bit of emotional closure with members of her family. This lends my entire trek through the series a sense of resolution I might not otherwise have gotten.
As with the other four books in this series, too, this one is very compact, without a single wasted word. The main plot arc is stark and straightforward against the chaos of Lily coming back to her hometown for her sister's wedding, just as Jack's investigating a missing child case. Ultimately the culprit is not surprising. But what sells the whole story is Eve's interactions with everyone, not just her family members who are still struggling to deal with her past, not just Jack who's doing his own feeling out of their growing affection, but all the townspeople she meets as well, especially the children.
I'll have to go back and re-read the whole series in order now that I have them all. But for this one, four stars.
It's odd to have read the series out of order, and dealing with the oddity of seeing Lily's relationship with Jack Leeds in non-sequential stages; it's all rather Time-Traveller's-Wife-y. Yet it was also oddly satisfying to read this book last of the five--because even though Lily's still in the opening stages of her relationship with Jack here, she gets quite a bit of emotional closure with members of her family. This lends my entire trek through the series a sense of resolution I might not otherwise have gotten.
As with the other four books in this series, too, this one is very compact, without a single wasted word. The main plot arc is stark and straightforward against the chaos of Lily coming back to her hometown for her sister's wedding, just as Jack's investigating a missing child case. Ultimately the culprit is not surprising. But what sells the whole story is Eve's interactions with everyone, not just her family members who are still struggling to deal with her past, not just Jack who's doing his own feeling out of their growing affection, but all the townspeople she meets as well, especially the children.
I'll have to go back and re-read the whole series in order now that I have them all. But for this one, four stars.
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