Taking Care of Business (No Working Overtime)

[ase]

Explaining why I was awesome this afternoon involves tedious backfill regarding sample handling and how much I miss people who are on vacation (one more day! One more day of trying to be two people!) but today I rocked the fast turnaround. And then I made "experiment with margarine" chocolate chip cookies and had roommate hang-out time. Go me!

Also, my desire to cope with the less than 10 hours of daylight thing and rock my errands correlates wonderfully well with the day's high temperature breaking 35 F.

I'm rereading The Fellowship of the Ring at night and on the bus this week (and last week, and for several weeks to come), and having lurched out of Bree I think I'll manage to finish the book. However, reading it in winter at 25 instead of August at a still-new-to-me 14 is a very different experience: much more implicit grappling with despair (and losing all the time, real subtle, JRRT!) and much more awareness of how wavering and uneven Fellowship is, and such a fit for the weather it's not a pleasant resonance. And yet - still reading.

Comments

[charlie-ego.livejournal.com]

Fellowship has always been my least favorite of the trilogy-- everything still ramping up. My first read-through I think I only made it through Lothlorien and skipped directly to Two Towers from there. (However, I will warn you right now: in general I am a total and raving Tolkien fanatic... though I understand that not everyone is :) )

[ase.livejournal.com]

I do not believe I am a raving Tolkien fanatic, but I could convincingly play one on TV. The first time I read the series I was 13 or 14, and still finished pretty much everything that I picked up (including five of Asimov's Foundation novels). But my favorite parts of Fellowship still are Moria and Lothlorien. Galadriel gets the "greatness, or awesome?" accolade from me.