Back in Boston
Oct. 28th, 2007 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI walked off the plane yesterday morning filled with focus and determination, and I followed through on it -- I took a nap on the couch, a GOOD nap on the couch, a long, focused, intentional nap on the couch, a several-iteration nap preceded by a bagel and attended by cats. The couch finally let me go at, oh, about 3:30 PM, when I considered my duty done.
There's a lot I didn't write about in California, like flying in a two-person airplane for the first time (with Chia's husband, who's a licensed pilot of small aircraft but not licensed to do loops or corkscrews, alas), and knitting with a bunch of strangers in a bubble-tea place with great bubble tea and terrible food. Lifting weights all alone in a super old school gym, for free, while the owner ripped up the carpet all around me. Losing my favorite hoodie somewhere on the Zillian campus, retaliating by getting a new hoodie from the employee store (it's 55% hemp). Discovering the first SF novel that has really impressed me in a long time, reading it slowly to make it last through the second week.
I start work in our Boston office tomorrow, the holidays have sneaked up on me and I have to figure out what a "normal week" is going to look like now. Time to... hmm... time to write a bunch more to-do lists.
There's a lot I didn't write about in California, like flying in a two-person airplane for the first time (with Chia's husband, who's a licensed pilot of small aircraft but not licensed to do loops or corkscrews, alas), and knitting with a bunch of strangers in a bubble-tea place with great bubble tea and terrible food. Lifting weights all alone in a super old school gym, for free, while the owner ripped up the carpet all around me. Losing my favorite hoodie somewhere on the Zillian campus, retaliating by getting a new hoodie from the employee store (it's 55% hemp). Discovering the first SF novel that has really impressed me in a long time, reading it slowly to make it last through the second week.
I start work in our Boston office tomorrow, the holidays have sneaked up on me and I have to figure out what a "normal week" is going to look like now. Time to... hmm... time to write a bunch more to-do lists.
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Date: 2007-10-29 05:17 am (UTC)What SF book? Share, share.
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Date: 2007-10-29 11:19 am (UTC)The book was Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, not to be confused with Robert Anton Wilson.
One night the stars go out. From that breathtaking "what if," Wilson builds an astonishingly successful mélange of SF thriller, growing-up saga, tender love story, father-son conflict, ecological parable and apocalyptic fable...
The review sounds ridiculous, but it really IS all those things! My only question is which book of his to buy next.
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Date: 2007-10-29 12:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-29 12:51 pm (UTC)Have you read anything by Scott Westerfeld? I've been enjoying some of his stuff recently- he explores some really neat concepts.
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Date: 2007-10-30 11:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-30 11:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-30 12:46 pm (UTC)This is a lot of books... must investigate whether the library has them.
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Date: 2007-10-29 08:29 pm (UTC)I am shocked the holidays are here. I was totally planning on getting a jump on the cards this year - apparently that ain't happenin'.
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Date: 2007-10-30 11:08 am (UTC)